Gathered around a crackling log fire, their knitting needles click softly as portraits of Scottish noblemen in all their pomp and pageantry look sternly down on them. The group of women seated ...

Dame Zandra Rhodes, known globally for her flamboyant creations and vivid textile prints, says the landscape of Tregaron in Ceredigion was her muse for her 1969 collection The Knitted Circle.