About
I. The Store
Fabric Behaviour Matters.
Yarn Rabbit is a design-led yarn store built on one principle:
Fabric behaviour matters.
Because when you understand how a material moves, holds, relaxes or blooms, design becomes clearer.
Before fibre content, pause and ask:
How does it drape?
Does it collapse or hold?
Does it change after washing?
What happens at the seam?
These aren't insider questions.
They're practical ones.
They lead to garments that feel intentional — and last.
We keep the range intentionally small. Not to narrow the field, but to remove noise.
Each yarn is selected for:
– Structural integrity
– Surface texture
– Colour behaviour
– Versatility across stitch structures
Materials that support thoughtful making.
II. The Name
Why Yarn Rabbit?
"Yarn Rabbit" comes from the Japanese words usagi (rabbit) and keito (yarn).
The rabbit is a reference to my surname, Hopper — a "kira-kira" reading of the kanji for usagi I hope to adopt as my name in Japan one day.
There's another layer.
When my name, Cait, is spoken in Japanese, it sounds like Keito — which also means yarn.
It's a coincidence that felt less like coincidence.
The name became a quiet bridge between language, identity and material.
Japan has shaped how I think about fibre — not as nostalgia, but as contemporary textile culture. A place where knitting, crochet and surface experimentation sit comfortably alongside fashion and design.
Yarn Rabbit acknowledges that influence without turning it into aesthetic styling.
Built in Australia.
Informed by international fibre culture.
Grounded in material knowledge.
Cait Hopper — Tokyo, Japan
III. The Designer
About Cait Hopper
I approach yarn as a design material first.
My background sits between textiles, fashion and systems thinking.
I hold a Certificate III in Textile Design from RMIT.
I studied fashion design abroad at West Valley College in California.
I completed a Bachelor of Design, majoring in Interaction Design, shaping that degree to incorporate fashion and textile study throughout.
I deliberately blended disciplines.
Garment construction alongside interaction studios.
Silhouette studies alongside systems design.
Textile behaviour alongside interface logic.
That combination informs Yarn Rabbit.
I travel to Japan regularly, where maker culture carries a different cultural weight. Handmade is not positioned as nostalgic or rustic. It is often synonymous with quality, precision and individual expression.
There is a quiet respect for material. For process. For craft as contemporary practice.
That perspective continues to shape how I curate, select and speak about yarn.
Yarn Rabbit exists where those disciplines meet.
Explore the collection.
Every yarn in our shop has been tested, worn, and approved. See what made the cut.
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