Open Country - Fair Isle Knitting
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Fair Isle is famous for its knitting, but is it a dying tradition? Moira Hickey travels there to find out how important it is to island life.
Moira Hickey visits Fair Isle, famous around the world for its knitting. With a plentiful supply of wool from the island's hardy Shetland sheep, knitting kept many families from starvation, and the craft is still economically important for Fair Isle. Yet with Shetland schools soon to drop knitting from the curriculum, can it survive for much longer? Will Shetland's children still learn to knit, and if they don't, will it really matter? Moira Hickey visits Fair Isle to look at the importance of knitting to the islanders, and to ask what the future holds for this traditional craft.
- Broadcast on BBC Radio 4, 3:00PM Thu, 5 Aug 2010
- Available until 12:00AM Thu, 1 Jan 2099
- First broadcast BBC Radio 4, 6:07AM Sat, 31 Jul 2010
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- Duration 27 minutes
