shoormal wrap

shoormal wrapThis wrap has an unusual shape, which allows it to sit comfortably around the neck and drape in several interesting ways. Its like an open cape when worn one way, and like a more traditional shawl when styled differently: it really doesnt look like the same garment! Knitted in double faced jacquard, in gorgeous soft merino, the shawl is fully reversible. Colour We are now making these wraps in a new colourway shaela blue and moonlit sand. Please bear

This wrap has an unusual shape, which allows it to sit comfortably around the neck and drape in several interesting ways.

It’s like an open cape when worn one way, and like a more traditional shawl when styled differently: it really doesn’t look like the same garment! Knitted in double-faced jacquard, in gorgeous soft merino, the shawl is fully reversible.

Colour

We are now making these wraps in a new colourway – shaela blue and moonlit sand. Please bear with us as we update our photographs. The images here show the previous colourway.

All pieces from the Shoormal collection are now being knitted in shaela blue and moonlit sand.

Sizing & fit

One size

• A (Length): 58cm
• B (Narrowest point): 40cm
• C (width at widest point): 60cm

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.
  

The monoprint that is the origin of the Shoormal collection. I made this while was experimenting during the design process for another collection.

Notes from the designer

Between tides

Shoormal is a Shetland word for either the space between high and low tide, or the high tide mark itself.

I realised that a monoprint I’d made during the design process for another collection, and put aside, had strength in its own right. I started experimenting with the imagery: placing them into garment shapes and getting swatches knitted, and then sample pieces of knitwear made up.

It was during this process that garments began to make me think of the shore here in Hoswick and that interesting space in-between tides: the shoormal.

Hoswick Sand after the tide has ebbed