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

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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, ...