Welsh designer Anna Felton has created her own Monkstone Knitwear collection from her working farm home in Dyfed, West Wales.
Designer Anna Felton has created her own clothing collection titled ‘Monkstone Knitwear’ from her working farm home in Dyfed, West Wales, which is due to be launched online on Tuesday October 4.
Ms Felton lives on Trevayne Farm in Monkstone, Saundersfoot in West Wales, and is using the wool sheared from 70 sheep to create her knitwear collection. Local farmers have also donated wool from their own sheep to help with Ms Felton’s new business, and she is hoping she can pay them back once the business is launched.
The recent demand for wool has been low, but Ms Felton is determined that wool still has its place in the modern fashion industry.
“All of the wool is just washed and spun, without any chemicals at all, making it a really hardy material,” said Ms Felton. “It makes our products the kind that will last a lifetime because of the natural properties, designed to be on a sheep all year around.”
Her university degree in women’s wear helped her to decide to focus on creating knitwear as Ms Felton has worked with this particular material in the past and it was something she “loved working with”.
The 28-year-old has previous experience of working as a designer for Welsh clothing company Howies, and the global clothing company Fat Face.
The “Monkstone Knitwear” range consists of 100% Welsh products and is being created with the help of five hand knitters, and workers at the company Corgi Hosiery, based 46 miles away in Ammanford, Carmarthenshire.
Ms Felton hopes that her work with the local farmers will help to educate people about wool manufacturing, which she hopes will eventually lead to creating her own shearing collection.
By Bethan Hâf Marsh
[Image courtesy of UK pictures
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