Anne Doull is busy in winter. Together with her parents Margaret and Addie, she owns 650 sheep in the northwest of Mainland, ...

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 ...

The knitting organisation launched a crowdfunder after declaring that island's knitting heritage was facing 'serious ...

Shetland locals Marian Ockendon (left) and Wilma Johnson knit upstairs at the Shetland Textile Museum in Lerwick, Shetland's capital. Drive around the Shetland Islands in the far north of Scotland, ...

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Shetland islanders have criticised a television knitting competition hosted by Tom Daley of misrepresenting their heritage. Shetland’s Organisation of Knitters (SOK) has accused Channel 4 show Game of ...

FORGET your bucket and spade, your bikini and your sunscreen. For a properly cool summer holiday you need a nice woolly jumper. As Scotland carves out a lucrative niche as a chill tourism refuge from ...

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 ...

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 ...

Tom Daley's Channel 4 knitting show, Game of Wool: Britain's Best Knitter, has come under fire after a group of Shetlanders have accused the programme of "cultural appropriation". Shetland’s ...