Welcome to the European website of Eisaku Noro Ltd., Japan.

Eisaku Noro Ltd. is a Japanese yarn producer. Named after the founder and yarn designer Eisaku Noro, the company is famous for its outstanding and extravagant yarns and color compositions. The profile gives you more information about the company itself and the founder as well as about the production of the yarns and the used raw materials.

The yarn collection comprises about 20 different qualities with gauges from 1.5 to 7 and metric yarn counts between 1.2 and 9 - or run lengths between 1200m/kg to 9000m/kg respectively. The yarns are mostly made of silk, kid mohair, lambswool, ganpi paper, cotton, cashmere, alpaca, camel, angora.

Besides the yarns we offer two qualities of felts.

A lot of fashion producers worldwide work with Noro yarns. Though some of the bigger names declined to be quoted as reference - as most of them are anxious to keep their little secrets and won't let competitors know there yarn sources - some smaller producers were happy to show part of their collections: references.

A couple of answers to frequently asked questions and explanations of some technical terms we offer as background knowledge.

If you are interested in our products we hope we might welcome you at one of the next yarn fairs.

Our newsletter will provide you with the latest products news.

If you have any questions or are interested in shade cards or pricelists, you can use either our contact form or us.

All offered yarns and felts are only sold to commercial businesses like fashion producers, designers, wholesalers, e.g. We do not sell to consumers.

Eisaku Noro offers hand knitting yarns as well. Please visit the websites of the distributors for the US, Knitting Fever Inc., for the UK and Europe, Designer Yarns Ltd., or for the German speaking countries, Designer Yarns Deutschland.

Developing new color compositions