Events like Wool Week and a deep passion for all things knitting make Scotland's Shetland Islands a paradise for knitters and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

By Lynn AbramsKnitters and crafters had been anticipating Channel 4’s new craft show Game of Wool for some time. Knitting, so long the poor relation of the textile crafts, was finally to take centre ...

THE four-legged stars of a tourism campaign – Shetland ponies sporting Fair Isle jumpers – have inspired a German company to set up knitting tours of the Northern Isles. Fans of woolly jumpers will be ...

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 ...

The Shetland Islands have a knitting tradition that goes back centuries. The islanders' style persists, despite their modern wealth. This story originally aired July 2 on All Things Considered. With ...

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