The Welsh woollen industry once ran to hundreds of mills; today its luxury expression is concentrated in a few family businesses such as Corgi in Ammanford, which has knitted since 1892, holds a royal warrant, and still hand-frames sweaters and hand-finishes socks in cashmere, merino and lambswool.
Knitwear houses in Wales
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Corgi
$$$Hand-framed Welsh knitwear and hand-finished luxury socks, royal warrant holder
Wales knitwear: frequently asked questions
Which luxury knitwear brands are from Wales?
Luxury knitwear houses from Wales in this index include Corgi. Wales's contribution to luxury knitwear is hand-framed: a small number of family firms in the former mining valleys still knit on manually operated frames and hand-finish socks and sweaters to order..