Claire graduated from the University of Central England in 1989, having gained the prestigeous Royal Society of Arts' Young Designer into Industry Award. She then worked for a number of years as a freelance knitwear designer. Meanwhile she started designing scarves and interior fabrics for friends and family. The scarves and fabrics proved popular so she decided to develop it into a collection. Claire's latest designs use locally sourced Alpaca yarns which are extremely eco friendly to process and are luxuriously soft. The Alpaca herd is local to Claire's studio as is the spinning mill, the yarn is not dyed or finished with chemicals. Claire knits all her own alpaca using a hand operated 'hand-flat' knitting machine. What's more is that every scarf can be traced back to the Alpaca from which the yarn is from and the information about each Alpaca is attached to the scarf on a little information tag.Claire's scarves can be bought from the Women's Network market on Wed 10th September!
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