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 ...

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 ...

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

Anne Doull is busy in winter. Together with her parents Margaret and Addie, she owns 650 sheep in the north-west of Mainland, the main island, and also has a regular job as an engineer. Her family was ...

FROM lamb to loom, it is a tradition which has been passed down through the needles of generations of islanders. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you can get unlimited access ...

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 ...