The Mill | AW19 Production

by Rosie Sugden | May 30, 2019 | Behind-the-scenes

If you’ve followed my blog for a while you’ll know that t this time of year we are in production for AW19. We popped down to the mill last week with photographer & creative Paula Russell to capture some behind-the-scenes action. I’m really...

Cashmere Yarn | Carding

by Rosie Sugden | Apr 18, 2018 | Behind-the-scenes

We hope you’ve been enjoying our series of posts on the making of cashmere yarn, today we’re moving onto the Carding process. Carding is a mechanical process that disentangles, cleans and intermixes fibres to produce a continuous web of fibre/yarn suitable...

Cashmere Yarn | Blending

by Rosie Sugden | Apr 13, 2018 | Behind-the-scenes

Blending happens between dyeing and carding and is the process of mixing precise recipes, or raw cashmere, to get the perfect fibre mix for each individual colour on the shade-card. During the blending process fibres pass through opening machines which separate the...

Cashmere Yarn | Recipe Room

by Rosie Sugden | Apr 5, 2018 | Behind-the-scenes

For the second instalment of this series I wanted to take you behind the scenes in the “Recipe Room”. Every year my yarn supplier send me a new “shade-card”. This is their equivalent of a look book and details all their colours available for...

Cashmere Yarn | Origins

by Rosie Sugden | Apr 4, 2018 | Behind-the-scenes

I am very excited to bring a new series to the blog – “The Making of Cashmere Yarn”. As you all know all my products are knitted in 100% cashmere, and whilst I often share images of the knitting machines at work there is a whole other story and...