Made from 100% recycled yarn in a warm 70% wool blend, this cosy snood is exuberantly colourful, with stripes of Fair Isle style knitted patterns along its full length. The snood is totally reversible. The colours match the jumpers, cardigans and other accessories in this collection.

Yarn

Manufactured in a Tuscan factory with sustainability at its core, our yarn is made from 70% wool, 25% polyamide and 5% other fibres. All of the fibres are recycled from a selection of the best pre and post consumer regenerated materials, which are particularly soft, resistant to use and with excellent thermal qualities. The use of a large percentage of wool in the blend also makes the fabric warmer and more breathable than a similar knit made from synthetics.

Colours are achieved by blending the colours of the original fibres being recycled, so avoiding the need to reprocess the yarn. This saves on the use of dyes, water and power.

Design and Manufacture

Our products are all designed in-house, in our small, rural West Somerset workshop.

This collection was inspired by traditional British hand-knitting techniques which have been passed down for generations. The Fair Isle patterns are a combination of traditional motifs and our own inventions. Because Fair Isle patterns are knitted with two colours, and so two strands of yarn per row of knitting instead of one strand, this increases the thickness of the fabric and its ability to trap warm air in the tiny pockets between the fibres, so increasing the insulating properties of the knit.

Having been inspired by a traditional knitting technique, we wanted to create garments with a more contemporary feel. Our colour palette is inspired by the landscape of Exmoor, which we are privileged to have on our doorstep. Beautiful shades of yellow and orange abound in the Autumn, as the low rays of the sun kiss the foliage of the wild trees and shrubs that punctuate the flanks of the hills, and on the higher moors the heather blooms, creating swathes of purple, seemingly thrown like blankets across the hilltops. And everywhere, there is green in this lush landscape.

Having created an idea, and selected our yarn and colour palette, our garments are then knitted in a small factory in Tuscany, Italy. From there they make the relatively short journey to our Somerset warehouse by road and sea haulage.