Welcome to Loving Headwear!

Headwear in artisan colours knitted and dyed by us.

 Inspired by the textures and colours of nature.  Ancient rainforests that touch the ocean, mountains and places we love to be. 

 We create our knitted headwear on a 1930’s knitting machine that’s been lovingly refurbished.  Using natural fibres -  pure merino wool or combining cotton and bamboo.  

 We combine colours in nature’s themes -  forests,  flowers, water, mountains, Earth, ice and sky.  We love the uplifting effects of colour and the soft comfy feel of our headwear.

We began in the 90’s airbrushing dyes on woollen tights and jumpers and began perfecting our hand dying of knitted fabrics.  Then we found two beautiful almost 100 years old circular knitting machines that knit the perfect size tubes for headwear. With a lot of help we restored them. With modern silent motors, they are a delight to work on and will last at least another 100 years.  We slowly perfected our range of headwear and built up the collections of coloured yarns to make our knitted designs.  

 Recently we’ve made a lot of wraps for women with hair loss from chemotherapy or alopecia which we’ve sold on our Etsy shop "wrapdinlove".

 "Lovingheadwear" is our new shop for everyone.  We especially love our new merino range.  We hope you enjoy our new shop and partake in our delight in colours and the nurturing comfort of quality natural fibres.

 Everything is made by us here at home where our family helps with music, food, creating, modelling and packing.  Its important to us that everyone who works with us can, as much as possible, enjoy their work and be a part of a genuine company.  We believe a good company should be what it says, people working together in good company. 

 Every time we send a parcel it’s like gift wrapping a present.  We hope you enjoy our headwear as much as we enjoy making it!

John and Joy Carbines