This cape is shorter over the arms, so that you can easily wear it under a coat. Our capes are such popular, useful garments: this one covers your back, shoulders and tummy—and there's a subtle swing from the drapey merino.

Design features

The design of the textile is a Nielanell play on tradition: deconstructed Fair Isle, mixed with photographic imagery for a collection inspired by the idea of home.

Colour

Nearly a blue-black in the darker areas of pattern, our Rani knitwear goes well with both black and blue clothes...and particularly denim or indigo.

Materials & manufacture

• 100% extra-fine merino wool
• Made in the Shetland Islands, Scotland

Sizing & fit

• A (neck): 30cm
• B (neck to longest point): 76cm
• C (width at widest point): 79cm

All knitwear is individually made, so measurements given are approximate.

Inspiration & design process

Where was home then, and where is home now?

This photo is a wee Niela, when she was growing up in Canada. Looking through old childhood photographs brought the idea of bringing this past into the present.

A photo is made up of dots, here in two colours. Dots (stitches) and mini pattern in two colours are what make up each row of Fair Isle knitting.

And so a childhood in Canada has been brought into a different, later life as a knitwear designer in the Shetland Islands.