Beautiful, pure aran wool, hand spun in our very own Eastern Cape!
A month ago I was visiting my folks back in Kimberley (aka the "Groot Gat"), my home town where it feels like I grew up many eons ago, spending time at the Nazereth House, filling jam jars, learning to embroider and crochet. This time I returned to Kimberley to find Nazereth House was no more :( I wondered what happened to all the old folk?! Are they now being looked after by their own families, how it is was done in the old days where we experienced life and death in ones home. Now days we are born in hospitals and die in old age homes.
This is a trial and test... my next project to involve those dear one's often forgotten or neglected, often with skills and wisdom naturally accumulated over the years. Our retired and older folk :)
I tried asking my Aunt who orignally taught me to knit, to make up some samples for me, she said her eyes had deteriorated and would not be able to...so where else would I find some retired or older folk looking for a little extra income? Eventually, with a little pestering, my cousins wife suggested her mum who is retired, but still knits for her grandkids and sometimes the local fetes and bazaars for extra income...perfect :)
Here some pics of our first samples of exquisitely hand-knitted-with-love nunabean jerseys... in tamarind blocks and pure aran wool :) So perfectly knitted we couldn't tell the inside from the outside and even sewed the label on the wrong side ;P
Please send us your thoughts!
with love the nunabean team
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