{"title":"Carpenter and Cloth","description":"\u003cp\u003eCarpenter \u0026amp; Cloth is a holistic brand founded and nurtured by myself, Emily James (clothier), and my partner, Danny Fleck (carpenter). Using traditional techniques to work the materials from our landscape in mid-wales, we create clothing and shelter designed to connect people to the land in which we all live, and the stories that unite us.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMy clothing range is predominantly made from wool selected from neighbouring farms and woven at our local woollen mills. My clothing is designed to be worn everyday, by men and women, to be comfortable and effortless. I design clothing that enhances my own experience of rural life; I design for warmth and practicality and grounding, celebrating the natural properties of wool.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI believe clothes can hold great meaning; by telling stories through clothing that connect people, culture and landscape we can experience a great richness in our everyday lives, which has been lost in the mass production of textiles. I want my clothing to feel not just like an alternative to mass production and fast fashion, but also an antidote.All of my garments come with an abridged story of their provenance, which are published in more detail on my blog, on the Carpenter and Cloth website.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"welsh-wool-and-cashmere-scarf","title":"Welsh Wool and Cashmere Scarf","description":"\u003cp style=\"color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.7); font-family: adobe-garamond-pro; font-size: 18px;\"\u003eOur unique Cambrian Wool Cloth, made from Llanwenog and Black Welsh Mountain sheeps wool, artfully blended and woven in Carmarthenshire to give these subtle shades of grey birdseye.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.7); font-family: adobe-garamond-pro; font-size: 18px;\"\u003eLined with sublimely soft ever-green 100% cashmere from a Yorkshire mill, toning perfectly with our Birch mittens.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.7); font-family: adobe-garamond-pro; font-size: 18px;\"\u003eThis is thick, luxuriously warm and effortlessly simple. An absolute favourite winter friend.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.7); font-family: adobe-garamond-pro; font-size: 18px;\"\u003eApprox 69cm total circumference by 24cm high\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Carpenter and Cloth","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56194285470069,"sku":null,"price":45.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0613\/9402\/6735\/files\/IHqTD4VF4s.jpg?v=1761827985"},{"product_id":"welsh-wool-mittens","title":"Welsh wool Mittens","description":"\u003cp style=\"color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.7); font-family: adobe-garamond-pro; font-size: 18px;\"\u003eMade for hands that do things, with a shaped thumb for a good fit.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.7); font-family: adobe-garamond-pro; font-size: 18px;\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.7); font-family: adobe-garamond-pro; font-size: 18px;\"\u003eThis special birds-eye cloth is woven for us in Carmarthenshire from a blend of Llanwenog and Black Welsh Mountain fleeces. Lined with deep green, brushed organic cotton the colours are reminiscent of our Welsh Birch trees in winter; their bright snowy bark adorned with spongy pompoms of rich green moss.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.7); font-family: adobe-garamond-pro; font-size: 18px;\"\u003eWhether you are out on a hill side or foraging in the woods, or on the computer in a chilly office, these will keep your hands warm and cosy and mobile.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.7); font-family: adobe-garamond-pro; font-size: 18px; white-space-collapse: preserve;\"\u003eEach pair is made by hand in our cloth studio. Three sizes available.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.7); font-family: adobe-garamond-pro; font-size: 18px; white-space-collapse: preserve;\"\u003eAs as size guide, measure the circumference of your hand around the knuckles (keeping it flat and relaxed)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.7); font-family: adobe-garamond-pro; font-size: 18px;\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"overflow-wrap: break-word; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.7); font-family: adobe-garamond-pro; font-size: 18px; white-space-collapse: preserve;\"\u003eSmall will fit 18cm to 19cm - Medium will fit 19.5cm to 20.5cm - Large will fit 21 to 22cm\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Carpenter and Cloth","offers":[{"title":"Small","offer_id":56197790597493,"sku":null,"price":45.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"Medium","offer_id":56197790630261,"sku":null,"price":45.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"Large","offer_id":56197790663029,"sku":null,"price":45.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0613\/9402\/6735\/files\/XfeokLVJqQ.jpg?v=1761908633"},{"product_id":"elvet-mittens","title":"Elvet Mittens","description":"\u003cp data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\" style=\"color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.7); font-family: adobe-garamond-pro; font-size: 18px; white-space-collapse: preserve;\"\u003eMade for hands that do things, with a shaped thumb for a good fit.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\" style=\"color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.7); font-family: adobe-garamond-pro; font-size: 18px; white-space-collapse: preserve;\"\u003eWhether you are out on a hill side or foraging in the woods, or on the computer in a chilly office, these will keep your hands warm and cosy and mobile.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"overflow-wrap: break-word; margin-top: 0px; color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.7); font-family: adobe-garamond-pro; font-size: 18px; white-space-collapse: preserve;\"\u003eUsing this cloth, woven on historic looms from British wool yarns, is supporting the massive restoration of Elvet Woollen Mill. Tucked into the Cothi Valley, Carmarthenshire, Elvet is one of only 7 working woollen mills left in Wales and a vital part of the mission to preserve the textile heritage of Wales.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.7); font-family: adobe-garamond-pro; font-size: 18px; white-space-collapse: preserve;\"\u003eEach pair of Elvet Mittens, lined with cosy, brushed organic cotton, is made by hand in our cloth studio. We make them in three sizes;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.7); font-family: adobe-garamond-pro; font-size: 18px; white-space-collapse: preserve;\"\u003eAs as guide, measure the circumference of your hand around the knuckles (keeping it flat and relaxed)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\" style=\"color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.7); font-family: adobe-garamond-pro; font-size: 18px; white-space-collapse: preserve;\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"overflow-wrap: break-word; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.7); font-family: adobe-garamond-pro; font-size: 18px; white-space-collapse: preserve;\"\u003eSmall will fit 18cm to 19cm - Medium will fit 19.5cm to 20.5cm - Large will fit 21 to 22cm\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Carpenter and Cloth","offers":[{"title":"Small","offer_id":56197792334197,"sku":null,"price":45.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"Medium","offer_id":56197792366965,"sku":null,"price":45.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"Large","offer_id":56197792399733,"sku":null,"price":45.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0613\/9402\/6735\/files\/GI21FdFn1e.jpg?v=1761908690"},{"product_id":"italian-shirt","title":"Italian Shirt","description":"\u003cp id=\"yui_3_17_2_1_1761829260508_561\" style=\"color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.7); font-family: adobe-garamond-pro; font-size: 18px;\"\u003eA non-gendered, classic design.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.7); font-family: adobe-garamond-pro; font-size: 18px;\"\u003eFull button front with a back pleat for ease of movement and a soft collar.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.7); font-family: adobe-garamond-pro; font-size: 18px;\"\u003eMade from 100% merino; extremely fine and drapey designer salvage cloth from Italy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"overflow-wrap: break-word; margin-top: 0px; color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.7); font-family: adobe-garamond-pro; font-size: 18px; white-space-collapse: preserve;\"\u003eHand made in our mid-Wales studio in the original style of our Welsh flannel work shirts, yet with the addition of a soft collar and contrasting smooth cotton facings in a deep, inky-petrol blue.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.7); font-family: adobe-garamond-pro; font-size: 18px; white-space-collapse: preserve;\"\u003eThe convergence of these two elements, of practicality and luxury, echoes a story within the histories of the Welsh valleys and Italian hills, at a time of industrialisation and black gold…\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.7); font-family: adobe-garamond-pro; font-size: 18px; white-space-collapse: preserve;\"\u003eEvery shirt comes with an abridged story of the evolution of our Italian shirt design, which you can read in more detail on our blog.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.7); font-family: adobe-garamond-pro; font-size: 18px;\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.7); font-family: adobe-garamond-pro; font-size: 18px; white-space-collapse: preserve;\"\u003eWashing: Simply hang up to air, or cold hand wash when necessary, gentle spin in the machine then line dry - never tumble. Steam iron on a medium heat setting if needed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Carpenter and Cloth","offers":[{"title":"Small","offer_id":56198027936117,"sku":null,"price":180.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"Medium","offer_id":56198027968885,"sku":null,"price":180.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"Large","offer_id":56198028001653,"sku":null,"price":180.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"x Large","offer_id":56198028034421,"sku":null,"price":180.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0613\/9402\/6735\/files\/mWGQZxBOdC.jpg?v=1761913420"},{"product_id":"cambrian-gilet","title":"Cambrian Gilet","description":"\u003cp data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\" style=\"color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.7); font-family: adobe-garamond-pro; font-size: 18px; white-space-collapse: preserve;\"\u003eThe first garment in our clothing range, now in our 3rd edition Cambrian tweed!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\" style=\"color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.7); font-family: adobe-garamond-pro; font-size: 18px; white-space-collapse: preserve;\"\u003eFrom deepest Carmarthenshire, a blend of smooth, white, Welsh Mule fleeces, from a multi-generational family farm in the Cothi valley, and bouncy Black Welsh Mountain from our neighbouring farm tucked in below the north-western foot of the Epynt.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\" style=\"color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.7); font-family: adobe-garamond-pro; font-size: 18px; white-space-collapse: preserve;\"\u003eThe sizing is non-gendered and fairly generous, designed to be layered up in the winter. 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