KNITTING heritage & history TOGETHER

A Glaswegian living in Guernsey,
L Y N N E had a dream of uniting our most iconic pieces of British knitwear all under one label. In 2024 she set about making it a reality reaching out to artisans across the United Kingdom. 

From Fair Isle in the north to Guernsey in the south and Hawick and Selkirk in between, she was on a mission to produce the first ever 100% Scottish cashmere Fair Isle and Guernsey knits.

The pieces are steeped in maritime history, rooted in island life, typically knitted by the women in their communities for sailors, fishermen and costal workers. They were traded by these women with passing ships making the garments internationally famous.

The daughter of a merchant seaman,
L Y N N E found herself captivated by sailing after winning a place on the 1999 Tall Ship Race with Ocean Youth Trust Scotland, a charity aimed at changing the lives of underprivileged children, and it was in Lerwick she discovered her first Shetland knit beginning her lifelong love with British textiles. Today she personally supports the charity that changed her life, sponsoring a young person to take part in this year’s race being held in Aberdeen. 

For the past two decades L Y N N E has worked with the British textiles industry, she was appointed Brand Guardian of one of Scotland's oldest artisan tartan mills DC Dalgliesh, and has since amassed the world’s larger personal library of tartan. 

L Y N N E ‘ S superlative knowledge of Scottish textiles and British fashion led her to write four acclaimed fashion industry books; A Girl’s Guide to Vintage (2010), Cashmere: a guide to Scottish luxury (2015), The Fashion Annual (2018) and How Scotland Dressed The World (2022). Former style columnist and in-house stylist for the Edinburgh Evening News and Scotland on Sunday, she has also written columns for Town & Country and Harpers Bazaar, hosted various TV and radio shows across the BBC and STV sharing her unrivalled knowledge of the British textiles industry.

A Glaswegian living in Guernsey, L Y N N E had a dream of uniting our most iconic pieces of British knitwear all under one label. In 2024 she set about making it a reality reaching out to artisans across the United Kingdom. 

From Fair Isle in the north to Guernsey in the south and Hawick and Selkirk in between, she was on a mission to produce the first ever 100% Scottish cashmere Fair Isle and Guernsey knits.

The pieces are steeped in maritime history, rooted in island life, typically knitted by the women in their communities for sailors, fishermen and costal workers. They were traded by these women with passing ships making the garments internationally famous.

The daughter of a merchant seaman, L Y N N E found herself captivated by sailing after winning a place on the 1999 Tall Ship Race with Ocean Youth Trust Scotland, a charity aimed at changing the lives of underprivileged children, and it was in Lerwick she discovered her first Shetland knit beginning her lifelong love with British textiles. Today she personally supports the charity that changed her life, sponsoring a young person to take part in this year’s race being held in Aberdeen. 

For the past two decades L Y N N E has worked with the British textiles industry, she was appointed Brand Guardian of one of Scotland's oldest artisan tartan mills DC Dalgliesh, and has since amassed the world’s larger personal library of tartan. 

L Y N N E ‘ S superlative knowledge of Scottish textiles and British fashion led her to write four acclaimed fashion industry books; A Girl’s Guide to Vintage (2010), Cashmere: a guide to Scottish luxury (2015), The Fashion Annual (2018) and How Scotland Dressed The World (2022). Former style columnist and in-house stylist for the Edinburgh Evening News and Scotland on Sunday, she has also written columns for Town & Country and Harpers Bazaar, hosted various TV and radio shows across the BBC and STV sharing her unrivalled knowledge of the British textiles industry.