What’s the difference between OOAK and DtO Colors?
Well, first, OOAK means “One of a Kind”. These are experimental skeins that may or may not be repeatable colors. These are our color tests. While we wish we could keep every experimental skein we dye, when you’re a business that’s not necessarily the best option.
DtO stands for “Dyed to Order”. These are our stable recipes. Our repeatable colorways. And colors we can dye in whatever quantity the customer needs (within reason) as a single dye lot. That means if you want to knit a sweater, or a larger shawl (say, you need 6 skeins for a sweater or 4 for a shawl) – we can dye a single color lot for you so that you don’t need to worry about alternating skeins or matching lots!
Another big difference is that there will only ever be one skein of each OOAK color. After that, if the recipe hasn’t (or can’t) be stabalized, or we can’t get it to reliably look the same, then we may never dye more of it. DtO skeins by definition are colors we will have for years to come!
It’s rather impractical for us to keep every experiment we dye, so we sell them to you as OOAK colors! And it lets you say that you have something genuinely unique to call your own.