This web site includes a mixture of recent work and a few of my best-selling classics. It isn't possible to illustrate all my designs, but this selection gives a good indication of the ways in which even the most complex patterns are made harmonious by the use of natural dyes.

My small team of expert hand-knitters make approximately 30 jackets a year. Each jacket takes on average about three months to knit, and the technique of weaving the yarn on every stitch gives the finished garment the texture and strength of cloth. Most are constructed on circular needles, thus eliminating seams. The designs, with the dropped sleeves, exciting shapes and unusual detail have a theatrical quality.

The silk, wool and cashmere blend of yarn is naturally dyed with plants in my converted farm buildings. I am always experimenting with different colours and new methods. The yarn is first washed

and mordanted by hand to enable it to absorb the colour. It is then dipped into different dye baths, achieving an enormously rich palette of colours. Each skein is slightly different, and there can be as many as twenty shades in a single hank of yarn. When knitted, the jackets look almost painted, making each piece of knitting a one-off.

All the jackets, coats and cardigans on the cards can be ordered on the enclosed order form and price list. Alternatively, you are welcome to visit my workshop (by appointment only please) as I usually stock a good selection of one-offs for sale.

My limited output makes it virtually impossible to supply retail outlets The only ones I supply on a regular basis are in New York (Artisan's Gallery) and San Francisco (Three Bags Full). I do, however, have occasional exhibitions (check the news page for details). If you would like to visit me in Wimbourne, you can do so but only by appointment ( Click here to go to the contact page) or you can simply place an order from this website.

I have been dyeing and knitting since 1976. The wonderful combination of natural dyeing and hand-knitting is impossible to imitate. Many people compare my jackets to paintings, but it is both exciting and rewarding to create something colourful and wearable.

I am on the Crafts Council Selected Index of Makers and I was featured in the March 2005 issue of Country Living as one of their twenty favourite artists of the last twenty years.

SARAH BURNETT, WIMBORNE, DORSET BH2I 4JD