AngoraGarnet is owned by Pernille Silfverberg who runs the business from the Rörmyr farm in northern Bohuslän together with her husband, Gunnar S. Utgaard.
Like so many beginnings, this story starts with a love story. When Pernille from Denmark and Gunnar from Norway, met aboard the Christian Radich, a Norwegian sailing ship. They sailed together for many years on various Scandinavian sailing ships before Pernille went ashore to start a family and started breeding Angora rabbits and knitting twenty-five years ago.
AngoraGarnet itself began with an Angora rabbit called Angus. Today, we have more than 250 beautiful German Angora rabbits on the farm and these are the very heart of our business. Their beautiful wool, spun by the family-owned Henrichsens spinning mill in Denmark is the core of our yarn business. Both for our Silfverberg Design range and for our Bohus Stickning knitting kits, a critical piece of Bohuslän cultural heritage which we have produced since 2014.
Our Bohus Stickning knitting kits, include hand dyed yarn to ensure that the kits match the original garments and are produced in association with Bohusläns museum.
Pernille clips the wool from each rabbit, by hand. Only first class wool, typically from the back rather than the belly, is used for spinning our beautiful 2 ply yarns and this wool has been in our hands every step of the way to the spinning mill. Since 2014, Pernille has painstakingly re-created a large number of Bohus Stickning designs. Behind every recreated Bohus Stickning design lies a great deal of detective work, trial and error, are care, along with great reverence for our role in continuing this precious cultural heritage.
Purchaing a knitting kit from AngoraGarnet will give you many hours of enjoyment, challenge and excitement as you see the colours of the beautiful design unfold. Angora will last you a long time and, with a little care, will remain beautiful for many years.
Our yarns and knitting kits can be found in AngoraGarnet's e-shop as well as in our shop "Skattkistan" in the idyllic archipelago of Strömstad.
You are most welcome, we are glad to share the fruits of our labour with you.
During the Open House in the rabbit barn, we showed how we cut an Angora rabbit's wool and sort the wool in the process. Pernille was busy in the farm shop.
You can read about how we cut our rabbits' Angora wool and everything about our Angora rabbits under "Our yarn production".
In addition to our many angora rabbits you will also find some cats; Lucy, Nala, Gøjser (Gojsa), Hasse (Hasse-Basseman), Dumle & Fanta (Fantis). You might also find a bunch of mischievous mohair goats and the much calmer Gute sheep we had for many years, who often walk alongside the farm's ponies. Our ducks and chickens will welcome you to the farm, as they run free during the day and scratch around in the farmyard.
