The stall’s story

Looped & Bound is sisters Morag and Cait Brodie, knitting from a croft outside Kelso. The wool comes from a pool of six Border and North Country flocks whose fleeces are graded, blended and spun at a family mill twenty miles away — a supply chain you could drive in an afternoon, and they do, twice a season, to pick colours.

Everything is knitted on hand-fed domestic machines and finished by hand: seams grafted, ends woven in, pieces washed and laid flat to dry. The style is practical rather than precious — deep ribbed beanies that cover ears, mittens with real gussets, and scarves long enough to double as wraps on a delayed train home. Colours are the landscape’s: peat, bracken, storm blue, a Hebridean grey with black flecks.

Care is simple and stated plainly: cool hand wash or a 15-minute wool cycle in a mesh bag, dry flat, and the wool recovers from rain better than you would think. Each piece carries the flock’s tag, so you can trace exactly whose sheep grew your scarf.

Made-to-order colourways open four times a year on the Famica calendar; everything else ships from the current batch within two working days.