Knitwear designers 101

Google ‘knitwear designers’ and you get thousands of links directing you to mega fashion houses and large retailers. The large brands that pop into your head every day of the week. Not what I really wanted to see.

When I think of knitwear designers, names like Pam Allen, Jared Flood and Olga Buraya-Kefelian come to mind. Knitwear designers that inspire me to pick up my needles, purchase their wonderful patterns, or even get creating my own. Sadly, Google didn’t agree with me.

I’m not-so-secretly waiting for the day when slow fashion really takes over and these become household names not just for knitters. It’s slowly bubbling under the surface. Non-knitters are beginning to see the influence making-your-own is having over our generation, that even ready-to-wear companies are getting on board. Knowing where your fibres have come from, the farm where the sheep were reared, the dyer that dipped the skeins of wool…the list goes on. And whether I buy my yarn or patterns in the UK or across the pond, provenance is increasingly important for me.

The reward I get from taking time over my own clothing and homewares is entirely the reason I knit. And I’ve rounded up the list of knitwear designers who are (for me) synonymous with the slow-fashion movement.

Michelle Wang

Ondawa by Michelle Wang - Shortrounds Knitwear

Olga Jazzy

ØNSKE by Olga Buraya Kefelian - Shortrounds Knitwear

Pam Allen

Tillie by Pam Allen - Shortrounds Knitwear

Leila Raabe

Chiral by Leila Raabe - Shortrounds Knitwear

Bristol Ivy

Folded Lace Tank by Bristol Ivy - Shortrounds Knitwear

Leah B Thibault

Lamassu by Leah B Thibault - Shortrounds Knitwear

Jared Flood

Lolo by Jared Flood - Shortrounds Knitwear

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