37 stores · curated ORBIS register
Where Border mills spin cashmere, Dundee workshops knit it, and the trade has moved between them for two centuries. Johnstons of Elgin has spun Scottish cashmere since 1797, a 225-year manufacturing story. Lyle & Scott keeps the golf knitwear line that made its name. Knit Shop works Dundee-made knitwear rooted in the city's textile heritage. Fibre length matters more than branding, so the cuff deserves a rub before the label gets read. A shoulder keeps its shape on a shelf and loses it on a hanger.
Dundee
Knit Shop is a Scottish knitwear venture based in Dundee, a city built on jute and textiles that once employed tens of thousands across its spinning and weaving mills. The business makes and sells knitted goods, placing its work within that continuing Dundee textile tradition.
Best for Dundee-made knitwear rooted in the city's textile heritage
New Town
Belinda Robertson built her name as an Edinburgh cashmere designer, producing knitwear and loungewear in traceable yarns alongside sheepskin gilets and coats. Collections run from classic sweaters to reversible Toscana shearling pieces made in the UK.
Best for Traceable cashmere knitwear, loungewear, and reversible Toscana shearling from an Edinburgh designer
Edinburgh, Scotland
Bill Baber Knitwear is listed in Edinburgh as a sewing; its official website and supplied OpenStreetMap place record provide the public-door evidence.
Best for Sewing
Edinburgh
The Edinburgh Woollen Mill sells knitwear, tartan goods, blankets and Scottish-themed gifts at accessible prices. Its High Street branch serves visitors seeking practical woollens rather than specialist designer fashion.
Best for Tartan, knitwear, blankets, and souvenirs at reasonable prices
Hyndland, Glasgow
Good Story mixes unisex knitwear and organic-cotton basics with candles, drinkware and skincare in Hyndland. The lifestyle edit favours functional, quietly designed pieces across clothing and home categories.
Best for Unisex knitwear, organic-cotton basics, candles, drinkware, and skincare.
London, UK
British fashion brand operating since 1994, with a vintage-inspired, rock-leaning aesthetic spanning leather jackets, distressed knitwear and a muted palette.
Best for Leather Jackets, Vintage
London / Online
Drake’s still makes its ties by hand at a dedicated East London factory, using constructions from ancient madder to knitted silk. The shops extend that haberdashery approach into shirts, jackets, knitwear and accessories.
Best for Ties and easygoing English shirts.
Online / brand-level record
Eudon Choi is a London-based womenswear label known for tailoring that blends masculine cut with feminine sensibility. Collections span coats, dresses, tailored trousers, and knitwear sold direct at eudonchoi.com.
Best for Tailored contemporary womenswear by Eudon Choi
Eudon Choi is the eponymous womenswear label of the London-based, Korean-born designer, launched in 2009. Choi began his career designing menswear before turning that vocabulary — structured cuts, utilitarian details, vintage referencing — into ready-to-wear for women, a fusion that remains the label's signature: masculine tailoring softened by a feminine sensibility, expressed across coats, dresses, tailored trousers and knitwear. The approach earned early industry recognition, including the Fashion Scout Merit Award and the Elle Talent Launch Pad award in 2012. In 2017 the label expanded its reach with a collaboration for John Lewis, placing it alongside contemporaries such as Palmer//Harding in the department store's push toward emerging British design talent. The house remains a small independent operation — roughly five staff — run from Studio 7 in the Rose Lipman Building on De Beauvoir Road, London N1, a shared creative workspace rather than a public-facing shop. Eudon Choi has no standalone retail store of its own; the collections are sold through wholesale concessions at Fenwick, Harvey Nichols and John Lewis, through the independent boutique Salt, and direct via eudonchoi.com, which ships to the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the United States and Canada.
London, UK
British heritage sportswear since 1952. The laurel wreath polo is a subcultural icon — mod, ska, punk.
Best for Piqué polo shirts, knitwear and British sportswear
London / Online
East London label founded in Hackney in 2011 by designer Sunny Williams, a former tailor; built its reputation on the knitted 'Hockney' dress with David Hockney-inspired swirl prints, now stocked at Liberty and Selfridges.
Best for Hackney's slow-drop knitwear, led by the viral Hockney knit dress
House of Sunny started in 2011: designer Sunny Williams, who had previously worked as a tailor, began the label from a studio flat off Kingsland Road in Hackney, East London. Over roughly a decade it grew into a name carried by around 40 wholesale accounts including Liberty and Selfridges, with celebrity wearers such as Kendall Jenner, Bella Hadid and Dua Lipa. The brand's signature product is the 'Hockney' dress - a fitted knitted slip or midi dress carrying abstract swirl patterns inspired by David Hockney's artwork. House of Sunny describes itself as a slow-fashion operation, releasing two seasonal collections a year in limited runs.
London
London’s knitwear-led minimalism — stretch leggings, cashmere and gallery-clean tailoring. Stocked at Galeries Lafayette in Paris.
Best for London knitwear-led minimalism, stretch leggings and cashmere
London, UK
ME+EM builds women’s wardrobes around precise cuts, strong fabrics and details intended to improve fit or versatility. The range spans tailoring, knitwear, dresses and travel-friendly separates rather than trend-led capsules alone.
Best for Intelligent Fashion
London, UK
Percival makes contemporary menswear in small runs, balancing knitwear, shirting and outerwear with playful embroidery. Its collaborations and seasonal motifs add character without turning the whole wardrobe into novelty clothing.
Best for Cropped Jackets, Knitwear
London, UK
British menswear brand founded 1975—contemporary tailored clothing in knitwear, outerwear, shirting, blazers, footwear, and accessories with sharp working-class styling.
Best for Mod tailoring
Peter Werth founded his London menswear label in 1975 in Islington, north London. The brand's early inspiration drew from sharper, more formal styling traditions rooted in working-class 1970s culture. Collections evolved from contemporary knitwear through outerwear, shirting, blazers, and fine jerseywear into shoes and accessories—building a comprehensive wardrobe. The brand emphasizes 'high quality British contemporary menswear' with classic wardrobe essentials and seasonal collections. Product categories span long and short-sleeved shirts, polo shirts and t-shirts, knitwear (sweatshirts and jumpers), coats and jackets, footwear (formal shoes, casual shoes, boots, loafers, brogues, sandals), and accessories (bags, wallets, belts, hats, scarves, gloves). Peter Werth navigated significant challenges during the 2008 financial crisis, entering administration in 2011 and placing 70 jobs at risk before JD Sports acquired the brand, intellectual property, and stock. The acquisition saved 68 jobs at Peter Werth concessions. The brand relaunched with fresh direction and new website presence in October 2019, re-establishing itself after a period of market absence. The brand continues to offer flexible payment methods and regular sales alongside core collections.
Manchester, UK
British menswear brand founded by Liam Gallagher in 2009, built around mod-inspired parkas, paisley, knitwear and shirting; the label continues today under later ownership.
Best for Mod style, British; Paisley mod prints; Quilted jacket
South Shields, UK
Barbour began in 1894 when John Barbour started supplying oilskins from the Market Place in South Shields. The family firm, now in its fifth generation, still makes the Bedale and Beaufort wax jackets by hand at its Simonside factory in the same town. It holds Royal Warrants and re-waxes and repairs jackets through its Wax for Life service. The wardrobe now extends from outerwear to knitwear and footwear, with a line for dogs.
Best for Bedale, Beaufort and waxed cotton jackets
John Barbour, a Scot, set up in the Market Place in South Shields in 1894. He supplied oilskins to sailors and fishermen in the North East of England. His son Malcolm produced the first mail order catalogue in 1908. By 1917 it accounted for almost three quarters of the business, with orders from Chile and Hong Kong. Duncan Barbour, a motorcyclist of the third generation, introduced the one-piece International suit in 1936, named for the International Six Day Trials. A two-piece version called the Ursula became standard issue in the submarine service from 1940. Margaret Barbour became Chairman in 1973 after her husband's death. She designed the Bedale, a lightweight thornproof jacket for riding, and followed it with the Beaufort in 1983. The company holds Royal Warrants, the first from the Duke of Edinburgh. It moved into its Simonside factory in South Shields, where the Bedale and Beaufort are still made by hand. The same building houses the Wax for Life service, where jackets are re-waxed and repaired. That practice was first listed in the 1921 catalogue. Barbour International became a stand-alone brand in 2013. The family firm is now in its fifth generation and sells in over 55 countries around the world.
Hawick / Scotland / Online
Scottish knitwear manufacturer owned by Chanel — traditional cashmere craft combined with high-fashion sensibilities. The pinnacle of Scottish cashmere.
Best for Chanel-owned Scottish cashmere
UK
Boden sells colourful wardrobe basics, print-led dresses, knitwear and children’s clothing through a catalogue-rooted model. The broad range favours dependable seasonal pieces and coordinated family dressing over avant-garde fashion.
Best for Colourful family polos
Scotland / Online
Brora makes cashmere knitwear and natural-fibre clothing with a Scottish heritage identity. Yarn, ply and construction are the meaningful differences across understated sweaters, cardigans and accessories.
Best for Scottish heritage cashmere
Filkins, Lechlade
Housed in an eighteenth-century wool barn at Filkins, this working mill weaves cloth, throws and scarves on traditional looms. The showroom sells the mill's own tweeds and knitwear alongside a small exhibition on the Cotswold wool trade.
Best for Woven wool cloth and knitwear
Southampton / United Kingdom
Dedicated to Detail on Bedford Place in Southampton keeps children’s knitwear and Spanish-style clothing.
Best for Children’s knitwear and Spanish-style clothing
Scotland, UK
Scottish golf apparel heritage brand established 1891, producing merino knitwear and outerwear for links and fairway with Ryder Cup partnership history.
Best for Golf knitwear, merino
Glenmuir is a Scottish golf clothing manufacturer based in Lanark, with a heritage spanning over 130 years since its 1891 founding. The brand specializes in apparel designed specifically for the golf course: shirts, sweaters, outerwear, trousers, and accessories. Glenmuir describes its collections as 'golf shirts born from the links, golf outerwear shaped by the weather, and golf sweaters made by the many hands and families that give Glenmuir its name.' The company maintained a notable 30-year partnership with the European Ryder Cup team, reinforcing its position within competitive golf culture. Glenmuir's approach balances traditional Scottish craftsmanship with purpose-driven contemporary design, rooted in more than a century of dedicated golf clothing manufacture. The brand also operates subsidiary lines including Sunderland and MacWet, extending its golf and outdoor apparel portfolio.
Scotland
Family knitwear maker founded in 1929 by Peter Harley in Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, still operating from its original Queen Street site; known for seamless Shetland and Fair Isle-style jumpers, now run by the third generation.
Best for Seam-free Scottish wool and cashmere knitwear
Harley of Scotland is a Scottish knitwear manufacturer founded in 1929, when Peter Harley bought a former herring yard on Queen Street in Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, and set up a hosiery business making hand-framed fisherman's socks and woven blankets for the local fishing industry. Sailing trips took Peter Harley to Orkney, Shetland and the Fair Isles, where he encountered the hand-knit cottage industries and regional patterning of Fair Isle sweaters; by the mid-1930s the company had shifted production toward premium fisherman's ganseys and, over time, toward the Shetland and Fair Isle-style knitwear it is now known for. The company remains headquartered and still produces at its original Queen Street, Peterhead site, now run by the third generation of the Harley family.
Wales, UK
Founded in 2011 in Cardigan, Wales, by David and Clare Hieatt to revive denim-making jobs after the town's factory closed in 2002, Hiut Denim's small team of 'grand masters' hand-sews around 100 pairs of jeans a week — its stated singular focus.
Best for Handmade Welsh selvedge denim
Hiut Denim was founded in 2011 in Cardigan, Wales, by husband-and-wife team David and Clare Hieatt, who had previously built the eco-conscious clothing label Howies (founded 1995) before selling it. Cardigan had been a denim manufacturing town for decades, home to a factory that once employed around 400 people and produced roughly 35,000 pairs of jeans a week, until it closed in 2002 and the specialist skills of local machinists went idle. Rather than trying to recreate that scale, the Hieatts built Hiut around a small, deliberately slow model: a limited crew they call 'grand masters,' each an experienced denim maker, producing about 100 pairs of jeans a week by hand, prioritizing quality and craft over volume. The company has publicly framed its identity around doing one thing only — making jeans — rather than diversifying into a broader clothing range. More recently, David and Clare Hieatt stepped back from day-to-day leadership, handing the company to new investors who came on board in a transition reported in trade press.
Wales, UK
Welsh outdoor-clothing label founded in 1995 by Clare and David Hieatt (the name comes from Clare's maiden name, Howells), who moved the business from London to Cardigan in 2001. Sold to Timberland in 2006 for £3.2m, later bought back and now employee-owned.
Best for Welsh sustainable polos
Howies was started in 1995 by Clare and David Hieatt, who began making t-shirts from the floor of their London flat. The name is a shortened form of Clare's maiden name, Howells. In 2001 the couple relocated the business to Cardigan, on the west Wales coast, where it produced its first proper mail-order catalogue and later settled at the Parc Teifi business park. Howies built its identity around environmentally conscious outdoor and activewear, introducing organic cotton into its ranges in 2001 and, by 2016, becoming the first clothing company to go entirely fluorocarbon-free, alongside continued use of merino wool and recycled fabrics. In 2006 the Hieatts sold Howies to the American outdoor group Timberland for £3.2 million. David Hieatt stayed on but, after failing on three occasions to buy the brand back, left Timberland; he and Clare went on to found the small-batch denim maker Hiut Denim Co. in Cardigan in 2012, built around reviving jeans manufacturing in the town. Howies itself remained under Timberland, and then under VF Corporation after VF acquired Timberland in 2011. Following VF's later restructuring, the Howies management team bought the business back into independent ownership; the company today describes itself as owned and run by its own employees, with no external shareholders, continuing to sell organic-cotton and merino outdoor, running, and cycling wear from Wales.
Shetland, Sandness
Jamieson's of Shetland is a family-owned business operating for five generations since the 1890s from 93-95 Commercial Street, Lerwick, describing itself as the only business in the world that takes Shetland wool from fleece to finished knitwear entirely in the Shetland Isles, producing pure Shetland yarn and Fair Isle knitwear.
Best for Fleece to finished shetland knitwear
Shetland, Lerwick
Jamiesons Knitwear, established in the early 1890s at 93-95 Commercial Street, Lerwick, has worked with pure Shetland wool for over 120 years, producing knitwear in traditional all-over Fair Isle designs.
Best for Fair isle shetland wool knitwear
Elgin / Scotland / Online
Scottish cashmere manufacturer since 1797 — over 225 years of perfecting knitwear. B-Corp certified, whole-garment knitting, and founding member of the Sustainable Fibre Alliance.
Best for 225 years of Scottish cashmere
Hawick, Scotland, UK
Hawick knitwear since 1874 — the golden eagle on golf-club and casual-terrace chests alike.
Best for Knitwear, heritage; Heritage reproduction; Golf knitwear; Retro knitwear
UK
Marshall Artist is a British menswear label that has traded for almost two decades. The range centres on outerwear, with jackets, coats, overshirts, hoodies, polo shirts, denim, knitwear. Collections run under the names Siren, Marchio, Stampa and Active, and a separate Outdoor Tailoring line covers quarter zips and track tops. The label ships within the United Kingdom and abroad.
Best for British menswear outerwear and the Outdoor Tailoring line.
Marshall Artist emerged from East London in 2001, founded by fashion designer Neil McLaren in collaboration with Paul, who previously worked at Hardy Blechman's influential Maharishi label. The brand synthesizes high-quality contemporary menswear with streetwear aesthetics, combining functional design and distinctive detailing. Marshall Artist initially gained prominence through innovative outerwear—jackets and over-shirts featuring unconventional dyeing techniques—while blending terrace-wear silhouettes with refined tailoring. The brand's philosophy centers on innovation and craftsmanship, merging classic styles with modern aesthetics. Marshall Artist has attracted high-profile wearers across sports and music, including David Beckham, Kasabian, and Kendrick Lamar. The label remains a significant player in UK menswear, known for bold styling and its approach to casual wear that respects heritage while embracing contemporary edge.
UK
Family-run label founded 2009 by Joe Oldfield, reproducing 1920s-40s British menswear and womenswear patterns using British cloth made in the UK, including Fair Isle knitwear from a family workshop in Shetland.
Best for Vintage Style, Workwear
Oldfield Outfitters was founded in 2009 by Joe Oldfield, who built the label around his family's textile history rather than a general nostalgia for vintage style. His grandfather worked his entire career for Courtaulds Textiles, starting as a tea boy at 18, with his service interrupted only by World War II, during which he commanded a fleet of minesweepers. That family connection to British textile manufacturing shaped Oldfield's approach: rather than sourcing vintage-look clothing from wherever was cheapest, the label set out to recreate specific 1920s-40s British patterns using cloth woven in Britain and garments made in the UK. The first piece the fledgling company produced was a knitted sweater hand-made over three weeks by an elderly woman named Dorothy Massingham, which became the pattern the young factory then worked from. Oldfield's Fair Isle sweaters are made by a family-run business in Shetland, tying the brand's supply chain to the same small-scale regional manufacturers associated with the original garments it reproduces, rather than a mass contract factory. The label covers both men's and women's vintage-pattern clothing, positioned around authenticity of construction and cloth rather than costume-style vintage reproduction.
Scotland
Hawick knitwear house founded in 1815 by Robert Pringle; its designer Otto Weisz created the modern twinset and introduced the geometric Argyle pattern to knitwear in 1934, and the brand held a Royal Warrant from Queen Elizabeth II from 1956 until her death in 2022.
Best for Knitwear, Scottish
Pringle of Scotland was founded in 1815 by Robert Pringle in Hawick, in the Scottish Borders, initially producing knitted stockings and undergarments before moving into premium woolen sweaters after 1870. The brand's defining design moment came in 1934, when it appointed the Austrian-born designer Otto Weisz as its first full-time in-house designer. Weisz developed the modern twinset — a fitted sweater paired with a matching cardigan — and introduced the geometric Argyle pattern into knitwear, both of which became closely associated with the Pringle name through the twentieth century. The Argyle motif itself derives from older Scottish tartan and clan patterns rather than being a Pringle invention, but the brand is widely credited with popularizing it as a knitwear print. In 1956 Pringle received a Royal Warrant from Queen Elizabeth II, a recognition it held continuously until her death in 2022. With a documented history stretching back more than two centuries, Pringle is counted among the oldest continuously operating luxury fashion houses still trading today, and its knitwear — twinsets and Argyle pieces especially — remains the reference point most associated with the brand's identity.
Stewarton / Online
Scottish knitwear maker in Stewarton, Ayrshire - the 'Bonnet Toun' - founded in 1845 by Robert Mackie, continuing a local bonnet-making trade centuries old. Now the town's last bonnet manufacturer, producing Glengarry and Balmoral headwear alongside broader knitwear.
Best for Scottish knitted hats
Stewarton, in East Ayrshire, has been known as bonnet-making country for over 400 years, with nearly the whole town once involved in the trade. Robert Mackie's own family connection to the industry began through Thomas Mackie, who arrived from Irvine to supply feathers and dyestuff to local bonnet makers and started a spinning and dyeing business. In 1845, Robert Mackie moved on from that family enterprise to found his own bonnet-making concern, producing traditional Scottish Glengarry and Balmoral headwear. Where the town once supported many such workshops, Robert Mackie of Scotland is now the sole surviving bonnet manufacturer still operating in Stewarton, and the company has diversified over time into broader knitwear production while retaining its historic core craft.
Derry, Northern Ireland
The Walsh family has run The Donegal Shop at the top of Shipquay Street in Derry since 1963, selling Aran knitwear, Donegal tweed, Celtic jewellery, and Irish-made crafts.
Best for Aran knitwear and Donegal tweed
Trefriw, Conwy Valley
Trefriw Woollen Mills weaves Welsh tapestry bedspreads, tweeds and travelling rugs from raw wool, powered by a water turbine on the Conwy Valley floor. Visitors can watch the power looms and hand-spinning before browsing knitwear, blankets and sheepskin in the mill shop.
Best for Welsh tapestry bedspreads, tweed and wool blankets
UK
British casual clothing since 1985—colourful, printed womenswear and village-fete-friendly basics with playful details and UK heritage.
Best for British casual clothing and knitwear
White Stuff Clothing was founded in 1985 by George Treves and Sean Thomas, keen skiers who began by selling abstract-printed T-shirts and sweatshirts to the alpine skiing community in Val d'Isère. The first White Stuff store opened in London in 1991, launching a brand now known for traditional British styles, playful prints, and thoughtful details across womenswear, menswear, and children's clothing. The company operates over 124 shops across the United Kingdom and distributes via mail-order catalogues and online shopping. Headquartered in London with 2024-25 revenue of 184 million pounds, White Stuff is known for its characterful boutique stores, innovative marketing, and a charitable foundation supporting community causes.
Scotland
William Lockie makes knitwear in Hawick, drawing on the town's textile industry. Cashmere is a central material, with the company describing fibre sourced from China and Mongolia before manufacture in Scotland. Its collection can be explored through the brand's published range and retailers.
Best for Scottish-made cashmere knitwear from Hawick
William Lockie has operated in Hawick, in the Scottish Borders, since 1874, when its founder bought manufacturing equipment from his former employer, a local hosiery firm, to start his own knitwear operation. Hawick built its reputation as a center of luxury knitwear in the 19th century after de-hairing and separation techniques made cashmere production viable at scale, and William Lockie's mill sits on the banks of the Slitrig Water. The company has remained under family ownership throughout its history: it is today run by the Thorburn family, direct descendants of founder William Lockie. The mill produces lambswool, cashmere, merino and camel-hair garments, sold both under its own name and as a manufacturing partner for other heritage clothing brands.
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