A Little Look at Bairns-Wear Ltd.

Bairns-wear Limited of

Haydn Road,

Nottinghamshire, UK has very

little history as far as I can find.
From the internet -

there is mention of a factory opening

in 1953 but that is in Raymoth Lane and

making hosiery and children's wear.

And another mention of Bairns-wear

(plus others)

being taken over by Courtaulds in 1963

and was producing synthetic yarns.

In the 1980's it became Meridian

Knitwear which closed in 2000.

So going by that little information,

we have about 10 years - '53 to '63

of Bairns-wear! I am a little surprised

here, in that I would have thought

the company would at least

date from the 1920's but until

any other information comes to

light, this is all we have.

I had also looked it up in

"The History of Handknitting"

by Richard Rutt but found no

mention at all of Bairns-wear.

I have managed to find some

old advertisements and I have

some patterns.

But, the main reason for trying

to find information is that I

have recently acquired the sweetest

little wool holder to add to my collection

of wool holders!

This little house wool holder

is made of cardboard. This picture shows

one end and below is the other

end of the house with the hole

for the yarn to feed through whilst

you are knitting.

I have not seen anything like this

before and would you believe that

I have not just one, but three

of these houses. They were

purchased in one lot.

They are also in varying degrees

of condition, hence I would say

they would have to be a rare find.

I just love the graphics on these houses along

with the very mischeivous gnomes pictured

on them.

Above are some vintage

Bairns-wear dolls' clothes patterns.

Above are two vintage ads for

Bairns-wear, one for rug wool and

the other for knitting wool.

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