With an asymmetric hemline and long, ribbed cuffs this jumper is a special garment replete with Nielanell design detailing. Statement knitwear, wearable art.

Design details

Each piece has an individually chosen contrast colour, which is then 'drawn' across the fabric. Gorgeous drape is given by the extra-fine, worsted-spun merino yarn.

Colour

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

Materials & manufacture

• 100% extra-fine merino wool
• Made in the Shetland Islands, Scotland

Sizing & fit

• Cuff-to-cuff 145cm
• Shortest point of body 44cm
• Longest point of body 90cm
• The jumper is asymmetric, with dolman sleeves.

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

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.