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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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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In the remote cluster of rocks in the North Sea, knitting is a deeply ingrained tradition that stretches back for centuries — and persists... A Scottish Yarn: A Knit In Time Saves The Fabric Of ...