Corsica - a wrap the size of a blanket, the weight of a breath
110 by 220 cm of fine kid mohair: wide enough to close around you like a shawl, long enough to loop twice as a scarf, or to hang loose as a stole that falls almost to the floor.
Fine enough to see the light through - it reads as a haze rather than a layer, and it is warm out of all proportion to what it weighs.
It works the whole year. Over a coat in January, over bare shoulders on a cool July evening, over the back of a chair the rest of the time.
Folds down small enough for a bag and comes out without a crease.
It is knitted to shape - fully-fashioned, never cut out of a length of knitted fabric - and wherever the knit is joined it is hand-linked: the open stitches are fed onto the linking machine one loop at a time, so the join stretches with the knit and lies flat.
It is hand-finished and hand-steamed, then washed before it leaves the workshop, so it arrives at its true size and stays there. The yarn is spun in Italy.
I design every piece myself, and it is knitted in a small workshop here in Lithuania - a few at a time, never off a production line.
Every piece passes through my hands before it is packed - I check each one myself before it goes out.
It arrives in a plain brown box with the care card inside and nothing else - no filler paper, no leaflets. That is a choice, not a saving - I would rather use less than print something that is made to be thrown away.
Colour - gray.
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Composition – 90 % kid mohair wool, 10 % polyacrylic.
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Dimensions:
Width– 110 cm / 43.31'
Length – 220 cm / 86.61'
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CARE:
- Hand wash;
- Maximum washing temperature 30 C;
- When washed, gently squeeze the excess water out of the garment;
- Do not hang the wet garment on a hanger, as it will/may lose it‘s original shape;
- Do not tumble dry;
- Cool iron with steam or other wet method.
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