There is a market for hand spun yarn but there is a lot of competition for customers for it, which limits what you can ask for it, ask to much and it will not sell, ask to little and you can’t even afford to pay for the fiber and at least some of the time it took to spin it. I spin for myself or to give as a gift to a friend who knits (my dentist is a knitter and I always take her a skein of hand spun yarn when I go in for my visit :P) or knit my hand spun yarn into items for family and special friends. We will not get the time we put into to it out of. I think spinning white fiber and then dying it makes it worth more, but only if the colors are appealing to the customers. There is a lot of work that goes into spinning and selling. You might check, if you have a small owner owned yarn shop if they would be willing to buy hand spun yarn. They will probably jury it to see if it meets whatever standard they have set up for buying things from others. There are some stores that will sell your handmade things (I would count hand spun yarn in that) and take a percentage when it sells. I did some knitting at one time for a yarn shop knitting samples for patterns they were selling to show how the yarn worked with the pattern because the store hopes they will buy the yarn for the pattern there too. The store paid me pretty well because they knew the worth of my skill, and they had customers who loved the pattern but didn’t want to knit it ask if I would knit them one and I did, again they paid me pretty well for that. But generally knitting for people who don’t knit don’t really understanding the cost and skill and time, when they can buy preknit sweaters from big box stores for so much less.
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