The first reports of single layer ferromagnetism in the van der Waals (vdW) materials CrI 3 1 and Cr 2 Ge 2 Te 6 have sparked intensive efforts to realise the potential offered by two dimensional magnetic materials for both the exploration of fundamental physics and the creation of new modalities for information technology. The most widely studied families of vdW magnets are highly symmetric and as such typically possess collinear orderings. The ability of more complex noncollinear magnetic order to generate new functional properties 5 is demonstrated by one of the few exceptions to this, NiI 2 , for which there is evidence of spin-texture induced electrical polarisation and predictions of skyrmion phases .