I have knitted wool my whole life, in Estonia.
My work is inspired by Haapsalu — a small town on the Estonian west coast, where knitted shawls were given to the Romanovs in the 1850s. People who understood quiet, exceptional things wore them.
But my pieces are different from the delicate lace shawls Haapsalu is known for. Mine are heavier, rougher, larger — made to be worn, daily, for decades.
And I knit them in a way no one has knitted before. Over the years I worked out a technique of my own: two colours held together on a hand-knitting technique, as a single cloth. No other knitter is making Haapsalu-inspired scarves this way. It is mine.
I make fifteen scarves a year. I have never made the same scarf twice.
Each piece leaves with a numbered certificate and a letter from me — about that scarf specifically: why those colours, what I noticed while making it, when it was finished.
If you wear one of my scarves, you are wearing something no one else owns — knitted in a way no one else has invented.
That is not a claim. It is simply true.
— Virge