13 stores · curated ORBIS register
Norwegian knitwear answers to weather that does not negotiate, plain as that. Oleana produces exclusive designer knitwear from Norwegian wool, a label known worldwide, with colors mixed to match the fjord light. Dale of Norway has carried Norwegian knitting since 1879, from Olympic sweaters to the Setesdal pattern canon in pure new wool. Devold dates to Norwegian wool since 1853, the original fisherman sweaters that clothed polar expeditions. Choose knitwear for a decade of winters rather than a single season.
Bellgården, Bryggen, Bergen
From a shop in the Bellgården passage of Bryggen, knitwear designer Susan Fosse has produced her own traditional Norwegian sweaters, cardigans and vests for some three decades. Each piece is knitted in 100% Norwegian wool and finished with handmade pewter buttons, made and shipped from Bergen.
Best for Handmade traditional Norwegian wool sweaters
Oslo, Norway
Amundsen Sports makes outdoor clothing shaped by polar-expedition references, including knickerbockers, sweaters and technical layers. The pieces combine historical silhouettes with modern materials, so fit can differ from conventional sportswear.
Best for Outdoor Apparel, Knickerbockers
Amundsen Sports takes its name and its method from Roald Amundsen, who combined old knowledge with the newest technology of his day. The brand describes its own approach the same way: traditional craftsmanship joined to modern materials. The point of reference is the Norwegian outdoor life, skiing in winter and sailing in summer. The clothing is meant to look as settled in the city as on the mountain. Fabrics come from Western European mills with long histories. The company tests its garments in the field, from the Arctic to the Alps and the Rockies. Guides on the site explain the Amundsen Shorts, the Mucks System and Norwegian wool. A repair and warranty service backs the products. The Oslo brand store at Underhaugsveien 28 occupies a nineteenth-century home that also houses the company. It was fitted out by Kristian Moekleby and the craftsman Zdenko Tudor. A New York shop at 262 Mott Street faces St. Patrick's Old Cathedral. The Boulder shop was the first and is built like a Norwegian cabin. A Verbier space made with W Hotel uses recycled Norwegian dock wood. Waffles are served in the shops, and the brand publishes a journal on friluftsliv for its readers.
Karl Johans gate 45, 0162 Oslo, Norway / Oslo / Norway
Wikipedia: factory completed 1879 at Dale in Vaksdal; official Olympic and World Championship sweaters for the Norwegian alpine team since 1956. VisitOSLO: still produces in Norway on local hydropower; Karl Johan concept store.
Best for Norwegian-made knitwear and the house’s Olympic sweater tradition.
Oslo / Norway / Online
Norwegian fashion house — hand-knitted scarves, unisex ready-to-wear, and sustainable practices. Family-run since 2012.
Best for Norwegian knitwear and unisex fashion
Oslo / Online
Knitwear label founded by Siri Johansen, a former Burberry and Kenzo designer, that knits deadstock fashion-industry yarn into one-off, numbered sweaters; runs a small store in Oslo alongside its online shop.
Best for One-off sweaters
Waste Yarn Project is a knitwear label built around surplus yarn discarded by the fashion industry - stock too limited for a full production run, no longer matching a season's palette, or otherwise judged uneconomical to reuse. According to trade coverage, the brand was founded by Siri Johansen, a designer with roughly a decade of industry experience including work with Burberry and Kenzo; the label originated in Paris before Johansen opened a small store in Oslo. Each garment is knitted from whatever combination of leftover yarns and colors happens to be available at the time, so no two pieces are identical, and every finished garment is numbered to reflect that individuality. The approach positions the brand within circular-fashion manufacturing, converting a byproduct that would otherwise go to landfill into a finished product.
Bryggen
Berle sells Norwegian wool sweaters, blankets, and sealskin boots from a shop among the wooden Hanseatic buildings of Bryggen, Bergen's UNESCO-listed waterfront. Alongside the knitwear it stocks Norwegian gifts and homeware.
Best for Norwegian wool knitwear on the Bryggen wharf
Norway
Norwegian knitting since 1879 — Olympic sweaters and the Setesdal pattern canon in pure new wool.
Best for Nordic knits, ski sweaters
Norway
Norwegian wool since 1853 — the original fisherman’s sweaters that clothed polar expeditions.
Best for Merino base layers, wool
Longyearbyen, Svalbard, Norway
Founded in 2003 as a meeting place for Longyearbyen locals, Fruene hand-makes chocolate and baked goods at 78 degrees north and calls itself the world's northernmost café and chocolatier. The shop sells whole cakes, gift boxes of confections, and cinnamon buns alongside knitwear and slippers in a town where winter daylight disappears for months.
Best for Handmade Arctic chocolate and cinnamon buns
Henningsvaer, Lofoten
Lofoten Wool spins yarn and knits garments from the fleece of sheep that graze the islands' mountainsides and coastal islets. Its Henningsvaer shop on Gammelveien sells yarn, knitting kits and finished knitwear, with the main farm shop and studio in Stamsund.
Best for Local wool yarn and knitwear
City Centre / Online
Oleana is a Norwegian knitwear house founded in 1992 by Signe Aarhus, Hildegunn Møster and Kolbjørn Valestrand, with production kept at its factory in Ytre Arna outside Bergen. The current range spans merino-wool, silk and alpaca cardigans, sweaters, dresses, coats, accessories and home textiles, sold through the factory shop, Bergen flagship and online store while local production remains central to the brand.
Best for Exclusive designer knitwear, world-renowned Norwegian wool clothing
Longyearbyen, Svalbard, Norway
Skinnboden Arctic Products is a retailer in central Longyearbyen with clothing and accessories in its range. Its ordinary merchandise includes knitwear and ECCO footwear, with Sensai cosmetics also advertised on the merchant’s website. The shop gives its address as Sentrumsfeltet, Vei 221-3, rather than the different road number found in a directory.
Best for Knitted clothing and footwear
Trondheim / Norway
UniQ Garn stocks quality yarns from Filcolana, Gepard, Knitting for Olive, and other Nordic mills at its shop in Trondheim, now relocated to Idungården on Olav Tryggvasons gate, alongside its own hand-dyed UniQ yarn line. Customers can browse the full range in-store or order online with free pickup or shipping over 1,500 kroner.
Best for Textiles & Knitwear, Yarn
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