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Women and knitting
My earliest memories of knitting are my grandma carefully recreating beautiful French patterns for me and my younger sister – on my mum’s instruction. I would have the blue version and she the…
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Cashmere/ Capra Hircus Laniger.
All of the cashmere in this collection comes from Inner Mongolia where breeding and grazing is carefully monitored. Here the higher quality fleeces found on the white and paler haired goats are selected…
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Peruvian Baby Alpaca
Alpaca fibre is sustainable, ecological, hard wearing, soft and light weight, water resistant, warm and hypoallergenic. In one year, one animal can produce enough fibre to make 4 or 5 jumpers, which is…
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British wool; Natural, sustainable fibres.
Charl knitwear – made from British wool; When I was in the initial research stages of this collection, I was very surprised to find that there were only a handful of knitwear brands…
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Olive and George
Olive Edis was a photographer at the turn of the 19th century, she had studios in London, Cromer and Sheringham where she photographed members of the aristocracy, monarchs, clergymen and the local fishermen.…
