12 stores · curated ORBIS register
British scarf culture spans Highland regiments to university towns without dropping a stitch. The wool varies from silk-light to storm-heavy depending on the house behind it. Clovelly Silk makes hand-printed silk scarves and fabric, founded by Ann and Bill Jarvis in 1985, still printing from the same Clovelly barn. Kinloch Anderson works Highland dress and tartan from Edinburgh, cutting cloth for kilts and formal Highland dress. Ryder & Amies has outfitted Cambridge students since 1864, cutting college scarves and academic dress. A scarf here is closer to a passport than an accessory.
Leith
Kinloch Anderson has hand-made kilts, tartan trousers and Highland dress in Edinburgh since 1868 and holds a Royal Warrant. Its premises pair a shop with the workroom, offering sporrans, scarves, tartan throws and cloth by the metre.
Best for Highland dress and tartan
London / Online
Lee McQueen’s house of savage beauty — razor tailoring, skull scarves and the Armadillo legacy, today under Seán McGirr within Kering. Its outlet door at The Mall in Leccio Reggello carries past-season razor tailoring outside Florence.
Best for Sharp tailoring and the McQueen legacy pieces.
<p>Lee Alexander McQueen founded his house in 1992 with a Savile Row education and an East London temper. Apprenticed at Anderson & Sheppard and Gieves & Hawkes before his Central Saint Martins master's collection was famously bought in its entirety by stylist Isabella Blow, he fused the two inheritances into something new: tailoring of surgical precision carrying imagery of romance and violence. The bumster trouser, the skull scarf, the armadillo shoe — provocations built on impeccable pattern-cutting.</p><p>The runway was his second medium. McQueen's shows — model spray-painted by robots, a hologram of Kate Moss in organza — remain the most quoted theater in fashion's history, and they were never decoration: each collection argued that beauty and brutality are cut from the same cloth.</p><p>After his death in 2010, Sarah Burton, his right hand of fourteen years, carried the house with a gentler hand — the Duchess of Cambridge's wedding dress its most-watched single garment — before Seán McGirr took the studio in 2024 under the Kering group. The tailoring discipline survives every era: whatever the image, the shoulder is always perfect.</p>
Netherfield Road, Guiseley
Abraham Moon sells its woollen tweeds, throws, cushions and scarves direct from a former mill worker's cottage on Netherfield Road in Guiseley, two minutes from the train station. The company describes itself as the last wool producer standing in an area that once supported seven woollen mills, after nearly two centuries of manufacturing.
Best for Yorkshire tweed and wool homeware direct from the mill
Rose Street, New Town
ANTA designs and hand-crafts tartan textiles, stoneware and rugs in the Highlands, and its Rose Street shop in the New Town carries throws, cushions, ceramics and scarves. The house palette leans on muted Scottish checks and herringbone.
Best for Scottish tartan homeware
Clovelly village, North Devon
Founded by Ann and Bill Jarvis in 1985 and based in a Clovelly barn conversion since 1995, this workshop hand-screen-prints silk scarves, fabric, and accessories in classic English patterns. The studio has produced commissions for the Royal Academy of Arts and English Heritage.
Best for Hand-printed silk scarves and fabric
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
Fore Street, Fowey
A commercial art gallery set in a Georgian merchant's house on Fore Street, hanging paintings, ceramics, sculpture and jewellery by artists working across Cornwall. The ground floor doubles as a gift shop of homeware, cards, scarves and small Cornish-made pieces.
Best for Cornish art and gifts
Great Western Arcade
A hat shop in the Great Western Arcade selling fedoras, trilbies, flat caps, panamas, and berets for men and women, plus scarves, gloves, and ties. Staff also carry out hat care and grooming in store.
Best for Hats and headwear
King's Parade
Ryder & Amies supplies academic dress and college clothing from its shop on King's Parade in Cambridge. Its range includes gowns and hoods alongside college scarves, with both plain striped and embroidered-badge scarf designs available. Many robes and scarves are produced at its Fenland workshop, while gown hire and personalised college clothing provide additional services.
Best for Cambridge academic dress, gown hire and college scarves
Marlow / United Kingdom / Online
Scamp & Dude is a B Corp-certified British clothing brand offering womenswear, kidswear and accessories, known for its charity Super Scarves that donate a scarf to a woman starting chemotherapy for each one sold. It sells online with UK delivery and also operates physical stores.
Best for Apparel, Clothing, Accessories
Port Isaac / United Kingdom
Secrets Port Isaac sells original paintings, prints and cards by local artist Sam Littlechild alongside jewelry, scarves, gifts and art materials. The gallery also handles giclée printing and publishing in-house, while its online shop carries limited-edition prints and other work for buyers who cannot visit the Church Hill space in person.
Best for Art Gallery, Original Art & Prints, Jewelry
Crossbost, Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Scotland
At her Weaving Shed studio in Crossbost, the maker behind Western Isles Designs weaves Harris Tweed into scarves, bags and clothing, and sets local sea glass, shells and stones into a companion jewellery line. Visitors can watch the warping frame and bobbin winder at work before browsing the attached shop.
Best for Handwoven Harris Tweed goods and Hebridean sea-glass jewellery
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