With her partner, Sheila Greenwell, she has created her own range of yarns, collections of designs and written The Gansey Knitting Source Book. She is an advocate for slow fashion, ethical production and realizing concepts and collections for designers. Her internationally renowned brand involves collaborations with designers including Graeme Black, Paul Smith, La Fetiche and Connolly England. At the core of her work is the love of Gansey knitting and its unique construction techniques which she recreates to enable a perfect fit! She reconstructs and challenges convention in the tradition of knit and creates couture pieces with precision and care. With her business growing, she moved to Fife and established Di Gilpin Ltd.ĭi works with many Fashion designers to push the tradition of Hand knit in new creative directions. Inspired by the nature, landscape, sea and people around her, she developed her knitting expertise, experimenting with different processes, styles and stitches. In 1983, she took a year-off to travel, and arrived on the Isle of Skye with little more than a rucksack containing a tent, wool and knitting needles. Di Gilpin is the founder and creative director of Di Gilpin Ltd, the hand-knit design studio which has been based in Scotland for more than 38 years. Di Gilpin studied history and politics at university and started work as a teacher.
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