About perilla

About perilla

About perilla

About perilla

About perilla

Perilla was born when I could not purchase a pair of real old fashioned bed socks for my daughter one Christmas. A chance meeting with a leading local alpaca breeder, who had an interest in producing knitwear, steered me in the direction of the fabulous yarn dyed alpaca socks we produce today. I started the business in March 2006 using only British produced alpaca but we just could not get enough of the highest grade fibre we required for the knitting machines and now import substantial amounts of alpaca yarn from Peru. The yarn is dyed in two factories in the UK, it is then knitted up into twelve ranges of socks from bed socks to long wellington boot socks and everything in between. The socks then go to a finisher where they are washed, dried, pressed and then back to the knitting factory to be paired up, size labelled and packed. It is a long process and can take up to nine months to produce. In all we use three UK factories. This is our sixteenth year of trading and we are always extending the range of colours and styles. Read their story