Wild Thistle Intarsia Purple Cashmere Wrap

Johnstons of Elgin

£695

A cashmere wrap in Sloe Berry Donegal, knitted with a Wild Thistle intarsia motif worked directly into the fabric. Intarsia is a knitting technique where the pattern is formed by separate blocks of colour rather than carried yarn, giving the motif a clean, precise finish on both sides of the cloth. Knitted in our Hawick mill from Donegal cashmere, with the nep texture of the Donegal yarn adding a quiet surface interest to the background. The Wild Thistle motif draws on Scotland's national emblem, rendered here in a way that feels considered rather than decorative.

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UK company
Registered at Companies House as JAMES JOHNSTON & CO. OF ELGIN LIMITED, number SC022553. Checked 2026-08-29.
Means the business is a British legal entity, not a British-sounding name owned elsewhere. It says nothing about where anything is made.
UK operations
Stated by the company: "our Elgin Mill" Source.
Means people employed here, or premises they actually work from. We keep this separate from the company badge because a registered office can be an accountant's spare room, and a company can be registered in Britain while everything it does happens somewhere else. Where we have not looked, we say so rather than assuming.
British-owned
No majority shareholding traced outside the UK. Companies House.
Read from the register of people with significant control, following the chain of holding companies. It does not gate anything: a firm can be made here and owned elsewhere, and that is worth telling you rather than hiding.
Where it is made
The maker doesn't say, so neither do we.
This is about the individual product, not the company. A British firm can sell things made abroad, which is normal and not a criticism. We would rather tell you which is which than average them into a score.