Darn

Four jumpers and a blanket, once a year, mended for life

Knitted in one mill from undyed wool, finished by hand, released on the first Saturday of October. Each one comes with a darning card: send it back with a hole in it and it comes back mended, free, for as long as you wear it.

See this year's pieces
A woman pulling on an oversized cream cable-knit jumper against a white wall.

This year's pieces

A crumpled oatmeal knitted jumper lying on dark wooden boards in low sun.

The fisherman

Heavy rib, high neck, undyed oat. Sizes 1 to 6.

£165

A woman with long red hair in a loose green knitted jumper, arms raised against the sky.

The moss

Loose, dropped shoulders, dyed with the one colour we allow.

£175

A soft grey check blanket with a yellow leaf, cinnamon sticks and a small cup of tea on it.

The blanket

Grey check, fringed, big enough for two on a sofa.

£210

A thick woven scarf in stripes of red, charcoal and blue, bunched up against a dark background.
A half-knitted cream jumper on circular needles beside small scissors and a ball of wool.

Why once a year

Because the mill does one long run in the summer and we buy all of it. Three hundred pieces, no restock, no sale, and nothing left in a warehouse in January.

Because the finishing is done by four people in a room: seams, cuffs, the label sewn in by hand. They can do three hundred well. They could not do three thousand.

The darning card

In the pocket of every piece. Keep it in a drawer. It is the whole guarantee, printed on two sides.

Front

This jumper will be mended for free for as long as you wear it.

Moth holes, elbows, a burn from a bonfire, a dog. Anything but shrinking in a hot wash.

Back

Post it to: Darn, Mending Room, 5 Tenter Yard, Northgate

Put this card in with it, and your address

We send it back within three weeks, darned in a matching or a contrast colour, your choice

Postage there is yours; postage back is ours

A row of empty white clothes hangers on a rail against a pale wall.

Before you buy

Sizing
Measure a jumper you love, flat, armpit to armpit, and compare it with the chart on each piece. Swaps are free within thirty days.
Washing
Air it more than you wash it. When you must: cold, by hand, dried flat. The card doesn't cover a hot wash.
When it sells out
It will. Leave your email for next October; that is the only thing we will ever send to it.
The wool
Undyed British wool from two farms, spun at the mill. It is a little scratchy for a week and then it isn't.