marlet cowl

marlet cowlA soft loop scarf in our signature animal 'print' pattern, the marlet cowl adds interest to any jumper, dress or coat. Loop scarf design This circular scarf has a slightly asymmetric shape, to make it sit better around your neck. Colours available Subtle shades, colour popping combinations, classic colourways we make these cowl scarves in a huge range of colourways often as one offs. If you visit the studio you're likely to find even more colours than

A soft loop scarf in our signature animal 'print' pattern, the marlet cowl adds interest to any jumper, dress or coat. 

Loop scarf design

This circular scarf has a slightly asymmetric shape, to make it sit better around your neck.

Colours available

Subtle shades, colour popping combinations, classic colourways...we make these cowl scarves in a huge range of colourways – often as one-offs. If you visit the studio you're likely to find even more colours than you see here!

Sizing & fit

One size

• A (width): 30cm
  B (height): 30cm

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.

Design notes from Niela

My take on animal print

The markings of an Asian elephant may not be the most obvious source of inspiration for knitwear by a Shetland designer. But the beautiful, mottled markings that these majestic creatures develop with age are what brought me to design this collection.

I quite often find that my Indian heritage provides something that grows into a knitwear collection. On a visit to Kerala, I encountered elephants (some in a way that I perhaps wish I hadn't!). I discovered that their ears are so very soft and that the older elephants have speckled skin, due to loss of pigmentation as they age.

This observation then became a series of knitwear pieces – the Marlet collection has become a classic at Nielanell.

When applied to knitwear, the pattern is also quite reminiscent of mammals found here around the coast of the Shetland Islands – seals! In fact, that is often what visitors to the studio think is the source of the Marlet animal 'print'. 

What a lovely, dovetailing of two environments that have inspired and influenced Nielanell.

Read more about the Marlet collection and its source in natural, animal pattern.