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  • Making Wool Warm

    by Shopify API
    01 Oct, 2021 When our knitwear first comes off the knitting machines it is far from soft and warm. It’s coarse and scratchy and wh...

  • A Favourite Scarf

    by Shopify API
    19 Mar, 2021 If there is one scarf from my collections that I wear, day after day, year after year, it’s the triangle neckerchief. Small, co...

  • Jo Gordon Archive Collection

    by 8th Dial Collaborator
    06 Jan, 2021 This is a limited-edition collection of our most unique scarves from the Jo Gordon archive.  I commissioned my first knit a...

  • An Ode to Nature

    by Shopify API
    29 Dec, 2020 Our wool starts out as a warm coat for sheep as they wander around a hillside. Occasionally we find a strand of grass or bracken t...

  • The Great Tree

    by Shopify API
    04 Dec, 2020 I walk past this 500-year-old oak tree every day.  It is a Turkey Oak or Quercus Cerris. The trunk of the tree has a circumference...

  • What is a Tammy?

    by 8th Dial Collaborator
    06 Nov, 2020 We have been selling Tammys - a large floppy beret with a pompom - historically called bonnets, for over 20 yrs. The name ‘Tamm...

  • Step Into The Wild

    by Shopify API
    16 Oct, 2020 The freedom to roam on unfenced land, this is the joy of the Hebrides and Highlands of Scotland. A place to slow down, feed your ...

  • Creating Depth of Colour

    by Becky Jones
    13 Aug, 2020 A sweetie shop for a colour lover, this is the dye lab at the Todd & Duncan spinning mill in Kinross, Scotland where our ya...

  • Letting brown trout, pink-footed geese and 35,000 wintering birds thrive

    by Jo Gordon
    08 Jul, 2020 As a producer of accessories and garments made from natural wool fibre, we care about our natural resource and animal welfare is...

  • Don't just think about it, mend it!

    by 8th Dial Collaborator
    24 Apr, 2020 A hole in your favourite scarf, hat, or jumper is no reason to abandon it, mend it!  The diagrams below from the queen of repa...

  • Setting up a knitwear company was never my plan



    by 8th Dial Collaborator
    02 Apr, 2020 I thought I would let you know how I began. In 1952 my dad (aged sixteen), found a knitted hat in the bilges of a boat while s...

  • Introducing our new collection of fine cotton socks

    by 8th Dial Collaborator
    04 Mar, 2020 Made by Corgi (sock maker to the Royal Family) in the small town of Ammanford in Carmarthenshire in Wales. The fine cotton and ...