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Inside the Nielanell studio shop in Hoswick: colourful knitwear folded on an old wooden dresser and shelves, with jumpers and wraps hung on mannequins and a painting on the wall.
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Nielanell

Niela Nell Kalra's knitwear studio shop on the main street of Hoswick in Shetland's South Mainland, with contemporary knitwear finished by hand in the studio.

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Hoswick is a small village in Shetland's South Mainland, a short walk from a pebble beach, and Nielanell's studio shop on its main street is a joy for anyone who loves colour and beautiful knitwear.

The designer Niela Nell Kalra founded the business here in 2008. She is a printmaker, dyer and handspinner too, and you can see it in the bold patterns and colours of her collections. Each piece is knitted by craftspeople skilled in machine knitting and then linked and finished by hand in the studio, using yarns from the best Italian and Scottish mills. The shop holds pieces you won't find online, as well as Niela's handspun art yarn. It's open every day from May through the summer and for Shetland Wool Week, and on Mondays, Fridays and Saturdays from mid-October to Christmas, and you can book a visit at other times. In summer the café at the Hoswick Visitor Centre is just along the road.

Round the cornerHoswick Visitor CentreA café, craft shop and fishing and textile archive in the village of Hoswick in the South Mainland.1 min by roadSee itThe blue and white front of the Hoswick Visitor Centre on the village street.
Before you go

Contemporary Shetland knitwear, pieces found only in the shop, and handspun art yarn.

Where
Hoswick, Sandwick, Shetland, ZE2 9HL, about 20 minutes by car from Lerwick and from Sumburgh Airport.
Open
Daily from May through the summer and for Shetland Wool Week; Monday, Friday and Saturday 10am to 4pm from mid-October to Christmas.
By appointment
Visits outside opening hours, for one or a group, by email or phone.
Access
All on one level, with a wide door; seats inside.
Getting there
The number 6 bus to Sandwick, about ten minutes on foot.
Phone
01950 431516

Opening hours

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Monday
10am–4pm
Tuesday
Closed
Wednesday
Closed
Thursday
Closed
Friday
10am–4pm
Saturday
10am–4pm
Sunday
Closed

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Where it is

On the main street of Hoswick, by Sandwick in Shetland's South Mainland.

Close bySandwick and the South Mainland.
  1. Mousa Broch across the sound, seen from the water on the way over from Sandsayre.Sandsayre Interpretive CentreThe waiting room at the Mousa boat's pier in Sandwick, with the old flit boat and the story of Mousa and its boats.2 miles 6 min by road
  2. Mousa Broch from the air, a round tower on a golden headland above dark rocks and sea.Mousa BrochThe best-preserved broch in Scotland, on an island of its own.2 miles 7 min by road
  3. The pale sand and breaking waves of Levenwick bay, green headlands on either side.LevenwickA gently sloping sandy bay in the South Mainland with rock pools at either side, loved by families.5 miles 11 min by road
  4. The white sand tombolo curving out to St Ninian's Isle, the sea on both sides.St Ninian’s IsleThe sand bar out to the isle, and the treasure found under the chapel.6 miles 14 min by road
  5. The long thatched Crofthouse Museum and its stone dykes under a blue sky.Crofthouse MuseumA thatched croft house of the 1870s at Boddam in the South Mainland, with its peat fire and box beds; free, and open in summer.10 miles 18 min by road
Directions
The blue and white front of the Hoswick Visitor Centre on the village street.AttractionsHoswick Visitor CentreA step away
High cliffs rising from a deep blue sea across the bay from Maywick.AttractionsMaywick2.4 miles as the crow flies
Grey seals hauled out on the pale sand at Rerwick, the sea at the edge.AttractionsRerwick and Scousburgh Sands6.7 miles
Quendale Mill's stone buildings and water wheel round a gravel yard.AttractionsQuendale Mill11 miles
The sweep of sand round the Bay of Quendale beyond a green field.AttractionsQuendale Beach11 miles
Visitor walks among stone walls and hearth of an Iron Age broch settlementAttractionsScatness Broch12 miles
A reconstructed Iron Age house at Old Scatness, its turf roof and doorway, a cooking pot outside.AttractionsOld Scatness12 miles
The stone walls and low passage of the Ness of Burgi blockhouse on its grassy headland.AttractionsNess of Burgi12 miles
The round walls of a wheelhouse below the laird's house, Jarlshof.AttractionsJarlshof13 miles

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