Central Otago Makers Under One Roof | Lohi Linen, Ranfurly
Lohi Linen — Ranfurly, Central Otago
The makers under our roof.
Lohi was never only going to be linen. Long before we renovated the old building on Charlemont Street, this small main street already had makers on it — designers selling their own work, an ocean of talent in a town of 800. We just built a roof big enough to gather them.
Some came through the Dunedin fashion school and found their way inland. Some were raised on the farms out here. One came home from across the ditch; one walked back into our lives after thirty years. What they share is a place — Central Otago, the Māniatoto, the Pigroot — and a way of working: slowly, by hand, one at a time, and meaning it. These are the people behind what you'll find when you walk in.
Linen
Lohi Linen
Our own. Designed and handmade in Ranfurly by Tania, in European deadstock linen, each piece named for the Central Otago landscape it comes from. The brand began with a childhood memory of a high-country farmer's couture collection — a long story we tell in full.
Meet Lohi →Wool
Eweburn Creek
Lucy Girvan grew up on a Maniototo farm, studied fashion in Dunedin, and at 22 built a label from her family's own wool — mid-micron knitwear grown ten kilometres from our door. Wool for the cold months, where our linen carries the warm.
Meet Lucy →Linen, cotton & hemp — with colour
Rabosi Design
Eva Hosie designs vibrant, hand-finished natural-fibre pieces from her lifestyle block at Dunback. We first met an ocean away and decades ago; she walked back into our lives through an open door during the Lohi renovation. Where we go quiet, Eva brings the colour and the fun.
Meet Eva →Womenswear
Katherine Anne
Katherine Inder — of the Māniatoto's Inder family, and a Dunedin fashion-school graduate we first met selling alongside Lucy on Ranfurly's main street. In 2025 she took the Māniatoto onto the New Zealand Fashion Week runway, and her conscious, made-to-order womenswear challenges the industry on size and body image.
Meet Katherine →Men's woollens
Shortlands Station
The wool you can point at. Shortlands Station — neighbour to Eden Hore's old farm, where this whole brand's story begins — sends its hogget wool to AgWool, a farmer-owned New Zealand cooperative, to be made into men's jerseys and socks. Then it comes home, sold a few paddocks from where it grew. If you rode the gravel over Danseys Pass, you probably passed the sheep.
The wool's story →Womenswear, Wellington
Clara Bosshard
Not everyone under our roof is from just up the road. Clara designs and sews sculptural, made-to-order womenswear from her studio in Pōneke — natural fabrics, deadstock sourced through New Zealand suppliers, built to outlast the season it was made for. Her work has sat in our store for two years, sent down by post from a maker we've never met in person. The conviction travels just fine.
Meet Clara →One small town. A surprising amount of made-here.
You'll find all of it under one roof at 8 Charlemont Street, Ranfurly — halfway between Dunedin and Queenstown, with The Thirsty Moa wine bar beside it. Come for the linen, stay for the wine, leave with something made by someone who lives just up the valley.