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 ...

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 is an actual island, fairly isolated north of Scotland in the Shetland archipelago. There, the design began in the early 19th Century as a pattern for fishermen's caps and sweaters.

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 ...

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.

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 ...