Stitches in time as knitwear goes back 200 years
The exhibition of Shetland’s quintessential product, knitwear, delighted Hamefarers at Shetland Museum and Archives on Wednesday, with examples of the craft dating back nearly 200
READ FULL STORYThe exhibition of Shetland’s quintessential product, knitwear, delighted Hamefarers at Shetland Museum and Archives on Wednesday, with examples of the craft dating back nearly 200
READ FULL STORYThere is one among the merry throng of hamefarers this week who is already a very well-kent face in his homeland: Davie Thomason is a
READ FULL STORYTwenty women – 14 Hamefarers and six locals – joined hamefarer and quilter Ann Hill at Islesburgh on Wednesday in a class to work on
READ FULL STORYAuthor J. Laughton Johnston gave an informative summary of his book A Kist of Emigrants at its launch at Clickimin on Monday evening.
READ FULL STORYHamefarer and author Jim Stimson is visiting Shetland from Canada for the first time and has made a pilgrimage to the site of the former
READ FULL STORYFair Isle Through the Seasons by Malachy Tallack and Roger Riddington. Published by ZE Press at £15.
READ FULL STORYDir are twa wirds dat immediately spring to my mind when I read or listen tae da late Rhoda Bulter’s poetry – da first een
READ FULL STORYWhile mean temperatures for the month were close to the 1971-2000 normal across Scotland, it was slightly colder than average in Shetland.
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