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!
Materials & manufacture
- 100% extra-fine merino wool
- Made in the Shetland Islands, Scotland
Sizing & fit
This wrap is large with an irregular shape.
- A: maximum width 89cm
- B: Longest length 225cm
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.
