Old Photograph Fisherman Fair Isle Scotland

Old photograph of a fisherman wearing a knitted jumper on Fair Isle, Scotland. Fair Isle is a traditional knitting technique used to create patterns with multiple colours. It is named after Fair Isle, a tiny island that forms part of the Shetland islands. Fair Isle knitting gained a considerable popularity when the Prince of Wales, later to become King Edward VIII, wore Fair Isle tank tops in public in 1921. Traditional Fair Isle patterns have a limited palette of five or so colours, use only two colours per row, are worked in the round, and limit the length of a run of any particular colour.



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