It was back in 1968 the Jamieson & Smith introduced knitting yarns to help add value to the Shetland Island clip, as mentioned in the
last post the wool was graded and sorted by hand into its various quality's before being sent away to be spun into whichever yarn we specified. Nearly 50 years later we still do the same.
Knitting in Shetland has been one of our main industries throughout the centuries* and we are lucky to have patterns passed down throughout peoples families but for those out with Shetland it was tricky to access these traditional patterns. Sandra Manson who works at J&S has been knitting since she was a child, the skill's passed down to her from her Granny and Auntie.
Sandra is always on the lookout for vintage patterns and one she has recently reknit in our
Shetland Heritage range is a Hap taken from the Traditional Shawls and Scarves book (which we have on our shop
here) Some of these vintage patterns need a bit of work so Sandra has made a few changes to hopefully make it easier to knit and you can find the pattern in this weeks edition of The Peoples Friend.
Almost since we started doing yarns in the late 60's we have had patterns in various magazines, before the days of Ravelry, Facebook and Twitter that was the main way we could reach our customers all over the world and for many people without access to the internet it is still a way for them to hear about Jamieson & Smith Yarns.
If you don't have access to the
Peoples Friend Magazine we will be releasing the kit ourselves in the upcoming months, but for this week it can be found in there. Happy Knitting!
*If you are interested there is a day all about Shetland Knitting being hosted at the Shetland Museum and Archives this Saturday (March 5th 2016) and it can be viewed on-line, for more information see
here
