A Shetland MSP has written to the boss of Channel 4 inviting producers and Tom Daley to visit the island amid claims they ‘misrepresented’ traditional knitting techniques on a new reality show. The ...

A campaign set up to secure the future of hand-knitting in Shetland - a world-famous home of traditional knitwear, including the iconic Fair Isle patterns – has won worldwide support and raised ...

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And it is easy to imagine how people knit all winter long when it's stormy, wet and dark outside. How they spin wool for domestic use and the older women teach the younger ones the complicated Fair ...

The Shetland Museum and Archives in the main town of Lerwick is the hub for Wool Week and all are welcome to come with their crafts and any questions they might have. In a kind of living room, people ...

Shetland Island knitters claim high fashion house Chanel checked out their jumpers for ‘research’ and then ripped off the designs. Designers from Fair Isle, in the far north of the UK, say they were ...

(MENAFN- ForPressRelease) Shetland, UK - A new initiative is being launched to promote and preserve the traditional art of Fair Isle Knitting in Shetland. This initiative aims to celebrate and sustain ...

Anne Doull is busy in winter. Together with her parents Margaret and Addie, she owns 650 sheep in the north-west of Mainland, the main island, and also has a regular job as an engineer. Her family was ...

Shetland Island knitters claim high fashion house Chanel checked out their jumpers for ‘research’ and then ripped off the designs. Designers from Fair Isle, in the far north of the UK, say they were ...

Drive around the Shetland Islands in the far north of Scotland, and at least one thing is immediately apparent: It's home to a lot of sheep. They're everywhere — wandering along the roadsides and on ...