ebb-stanes wrap

ebb-stanes wrapWith an individually chosen accent colour, this wrap is wearable artand has become a customer favourite. As is fitting of a Shetland knitwear firm, at Nielanell we are really fond of shawls and wraps especially those with a large wingspan, like this one. Design Every wrap has an individually chosen contrast colour: a line is 'drawn' in a different place on each piece. Knitted in 100% extra fine, worsted spun merino for superior handle and wear. Colour

With an individually chosen accent colour, this wrap is wearable art—and has become a customer favourite. 

As is fitting of a Shetland knitwear firm, at Nielanell we are really fond of shawls and wraps... especially those with a large wingspan, like this one.

Design

Every wrap has an individually chosen contrast colour: a line is 'drawn' in a different place on each piece. Knitted in 100% extra-fine, worsted-spun merino for superior handle and wear.

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

This wrap is large with an irregular shape.

• A: maximum width 89cm
• B: Longest length 225cm

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.