ebb-stanes triangle jumper

ebb-stanes triangle jumperWith 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,

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.

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.

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.