ebb-stanes cowl

ebb-stanes cowlAdd this neat, knitted collar to any jumper, dress or top. An asymmetric shape, interesting pattern and highlight colour make this an unusual and useful, circular scarf. Design Each piece has an individually chosen highlight colour. The extra fine, worsted spun merino yarn is lovely and soft with a slight sheen. Colour Colour popping combinations or subtle tones are amongst the small edition colourways available. Once sold out, colours are unlikely to

Add this neat, knitted collar to any jumper, dress or top. An asymmetric shape, interesting pattern and highlight colour make this an unusual and useful, circular scarf.

Design

Each piece has an individually chosen highlight colour. The extra-fine, worsted-spun merino yarn is lovely and soft with a slight sheen.

Colour

Colour popping combinations or subtle tones are amongst the small edition colourways available. Once sold out, colours are unlikely to be repeated!

Sizing & fit

One size

• A (width): 30cm
• B (height): 30cm

All knitwear is individually made, so measurements given are approximate.

Materials

• 100% extra-fine merino wool (Oeko-Tex Standard 100)

Manufacture

We are committed to sustaining and being part of UK knitwear manufacturing – and Shetland’s place in this.

• We design Nielanell knitwear in our Hoswick studio, with initial concepts carefully translated into the flat panels needed to make up each piece.
• Currently, for this garment, we are working with specialist knitters in Mainland UK to make these panels.
• The garment itself is made in Shetland. Our in-house team in Hoswick transforms the flat panels into a wearable piece of knitwear using linking (a skilled knitting process) and hand-finishing.
• Our knitwear is made in very small batches, slowly. Each piece of Nielanell knitwear can take approximately 12-16 weeks (often longer) from weighing out the yarn needed in our studio to the garment being ready to wear.
  

Ebb-stanes on the shore at Hoswick, Shetland

Landscape, line and family memory in a collection of contemporary Shetland knitwear

The tide is a moving line, revealing (and hiding) stones on the beach at Hoswick as it ebbs and flows. In Shetland these stones and pebbles are called Ebb-stanes. This shifting, natural border is so different from the man-made borders we see elsewhere.

I was thinking about line in landscape and the differences between a tide mark, a path and something much more fixed. My father was Indian, and our family became overnight refugees when a new border was drawn in 1947—The Partition of India.

These thoughts and explorations of the concept of borders became my Ebb-stanes collection. A Shetland landscape-inspired pattern is overlaid or interfaced with line, or set in neat panels. Some garments are asymmetric in design; the soft, extra-fine merino yarn gives the most beautiful finish to the array of colours.