Shetland Wool Puffin Headband
Hand knitted original design with 100% Shetland wool, with beautiful puffins woven into this unique item.
Jess McHardy has been knitting for over 15 years. She uses the traditional fair isle technique originating from Northern Scotland to knit using multiple colours and yarn strands simultaneously. These hats and headbands are hand knitted using wool from Shetland sheep, a hybrid of ancient neolithic Scottish and viking breeds. The quality of this wool was improved by the Sinclair family who owned the majority of Caithness lands for hundreds of years. Shetland wool was already being used to produce woolens for the royal family, and had become famous for its’ warmth and comfort. In the 18th century, Sir John Sinclair popularised it following selective breeding and a treatment of the wool, still used today to remove the longer, coarser guard hairs that makes other wool itchy. Shetland wool is still considered some of the finest wool in the world because of Caithness.
Hand knitted original design with 100% Shetland wool, with beautiful puffins woven into this unique item.
Jess McHardy has been knitting for over 15 years. She uses the traditional fair isle technique originating from Northern Scotland to knit using multiple colours and yarn strands simultaneously. These hats and headbands are hand knitted using wool from Shetland sheep, a hybrid of ancient neolithic Scottish and viking breeds. The quality of this wool was improved by the Sinclair family who owned the majority of Caithness lands for hundreds of years. Shetland wool was already being used to produce woolens for the royal family, and had become famous for its’ warmth and comfort. In the 18th century, Sir John Sinclair popularised it following selective breeding and a treatment of the wool, still used today to remove the longer, coarser guard hairs that makes other wool itchy. Shetland wool is still considered some of the finest wool in the world because of Caithness.
Hand knitted original design with 100% Shetland wool, with beautiful puffins woven into this unique item.
Jess McHardy has been knitting for over 15 years. She uses the traditional fair isle technique originating from Northern Scotland to knit using multiple colours and yarn strands simultaneously. These hats and headbands are hand knitted using wool from Shetland sheep, a hybrid of ancient neolithic Scottish and viking breeds. The quality of this wool was improved by the Sinclair family who owned the majority of Caithness lands for hundreds of years. Shetland wool was already being used to produce woolens for the royal family, and had become famous for its’ warmth and comfort. In the 18th century, Sir John Sinclair popularised it following selective breeding and a treatment of the wool, still used today to remove the longer, coarser guard hairs that makes other wool itchy. Shetland wool is still considered some of the finest wool in the world because of Caithness.