Fair Isle knitting is a process that consists of working two or more colors of yarn into the same row, allowing the artisan to drop and pick up a color as they go down the line, producing a heavy ...

This Sunday, Nov. 22, I will hold a free faux Fair Isle hat workshop from 12-2 p.m. Class size is limited, so please call to reserve your spot. Hat kits are available for purchase in the shop.

TRADITIONAL knitting is alive and well on Fair Isle, the most remote inhabited spot in the UK. Thanks to Mati Ventrillion, the intricate patterns made famous by the Prince of Wales in the 1920s ...

Mati Ventrillon, who runs Fair Isle's craft co-operative, said: "Our problem is with the mass production of so-called Fair Isle garments with no consideration of the patterns. The skill is being ...

Traditionally, Fair Isle knitting, a “stranded colorwork” technique used to create rows of intricate patterns, has been passed down through generations of families. But the island’s shifting ...

A Fair Isle jumper is a winter fashion staple. Read Stylist’s curated edit of the best Nordic knits to buy on the high street from M&S, Hush, Cos and more.

The total output of Fair Isle, then, is about thirty sweaters, 200 hats, and thirty scarves a year. And that's not nearly enough to clothe the sweater-hungry masses.

The Fair Isle knit, a two-stranded knitting tradition originating off the coast of Scotland, has been a wardrobe staple for well over 100 years — keeping everyone from 18th century fisherman to ...

Fair Isle has since been adopted as a general term for multicoloured knitwear, but there are still small numbers of garments produced on the island from patterns which have been handed down ...