Eweburn Creek Wool Knitwear | Central Otago | Lohi Linen
Meet the maker — Central Otago, under our roof
Eweburn Creek: wool grown in sight of where you’ll find it.
Lohi isn’t only linen. We share our Ranfurly home with a handful of Central Otago makers we believe in — and the one our visitors drive in for is Eweburn Creek. Soft, mid-micron wool knitwear, designed by Lucy Girvan from the very wool that grows on her family’s farm, ten kilometres down the road.
Eweburn Creek knitwear — 100% wool, grown 10km from our door, now in kids’ sizes too.
A Maniototo farm girl who studied fashion.
Lucy Girvan grew up on a sheep and beef farm in the Maniototo, with wool always at the back of her mind. She went to Dunedin to study fashion design at Otago Polytechnic, and rather than chase fast trends she went the other way entirely — focusing on wool as a natural, renewable, biodegradable fibre, and on making fashion with a smaller footprint.
At just 22, she launched Eweburn Creek: a tight range of soft, versatile staples made from 100% mid-micron wool — 23-micron, a half-merino half-Border-Leicester clip grown about ten kilometres outside Ranfurly. The kind of pieces you reach for without thinking, that quietly become favourites. The range has since grown to include kids’ knitwear too, so the smallest members of the family can match.
“Wool, being natural, renewable and biodegradable, presented an incredible opportunity to create fashion with a smaller footprint.”
Why it sits beside the linen.
Eweburn Creek and Lohi Linen tell the same story in two fibres. Both are Central Otago. Both are single-maker. Both start with the material — hers the wool off the family farm, ours European deadstock linen — and end in something made slowly enough to mean it.
They even share the calendar. Linen carries the warm months; wool carries the cold. So whatever the season, there’s something in our Ranfurly store made by someone who lives just up the valley.
- Fibre: 100% mid-micron wool, 23-micron half-merino / half-Border-Leicester
- Grown: ~10km from Ranfurly, on the Girvan family farm
- Designed by: Lucy Girvan, Otago Polytechnic fashion graduate
- Sizes: adults, and now kids too
- Seen on: the WoolOn catwalk, alongside Central Otago’s best wool designers
- Found at: Lohi Linen, 8 Charlemont Street, Ranfurly
Worth the drive.
People come to Ranfurly specifically for Eweburn Creek — some from as far as Wanaka. We think that’s exactly right. A piece of clothing made from wool you could almost see growing from the shop window is worth a detour, and while you’re here there’s the linen, the Eden Hore story, and a glass of Central Otago wine at The Thirsty Moa next door.
The Slow Post
One letter a month from Ranfurly — the makers, the landscape, the making. We’ll introduce you to the people behind every piece in the store.