Fair Isle
Fair Isle is a Shetland knitting tradition of stranded colourwork in small repeating patterns, usually using two colours per row.
Fair Isle knitting, named after the small island between Orkney and Shetland, works two colours in each row and carries the unused one loosely across the back. Its bands of small geometric motifs became a fashion after the Prince of Wales wore Fair Isle jumpers in 1921. Strictly the name belongs to the Shetland patterns; the general technique is stranded colourwork.
Sources
- British knitting traditions. Victoria and Albert Museum
- The Fair Isle knitting collection at National Museums Scotland: history, craft and identity. National Museums Scotland
- Fair Isle (Q3064518). Wikidata
See also
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