Christina Noble - Miyar Mufflers

Mivar Mufflers is a social enterprise based high up in an isolated valley in the Northwest Himalayas where a local women’s cooperative hand knit mufflers with lanolin-rich wool from their sheep.    Because the supply of wool is small and every stage of the work is done by hand, our collections are limited. Each piece is unique and varies according to the natural colours of the sheep.

Our founders, Christina Noble and son Rahul Noble Singh, first visited the Miyar Valley in 1970s Entranced by the beauty of the Buddhist villages and embraced by the warmth of welcome by people, it is a place to which they, have returned to regularly over many years. 

The Miyar Mufflers collection has been handcrafted from shear-to-stitch by farmer- artisans using indigenous sheep wool. We offer three categories of knitted products: scarves, mufflers, and blankets.  Every piece carries a signature: a thread marked with hand-tied knots to trace the work back to the knitter and her village. 

The admirable story is that by returning all profit to the women  knitters  Miyar Muffler helps support a fragile  way of life among the daunting  mountains. However Christina and Rahul are adamant that craft should not depend only on its admirable story: to sell to the market hand made products must be of stand alone quality.