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A wonderful week of all things woolly

THE INCREASINGLY popular annual celebration of Shetland's textile industry begins next weekend. The nine day long Shetland Wool Week is enjoying its fifth year and will feature a wide range of...

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A film journey through the sheep year

A 30 MINUTE film featuring well known south mainland man James Robert Sinclair will be screened during this year's Shetland Wool Week which starts on Saturday. Following him through his sheep year,...

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Celebrating cultural richness and diversity

{igallery id=8007|cid=61|pid=5|type=category|children=0|addlinks=0|tags=|limit=0} There would be no prizes for guessing the location of Shetland Wool Week's opening ceremony on Sunday afternoon: the...

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Earthy shades of cream, brown and grey

DURING this year's wool week, Commercial Street's Vaila Fine Art Gallery is home to a treasure trove of highly covetable items in Shetland organic wool, writes our wool week reporter Genevieve White....

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Wool Week: A trip down memory lane

Anyone who despairs of the mass produced homogeneity of 21st century fashion is bound to appreciate the content of two of Wool Week's fascinating and informative exhibitions, writes our wool week...

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Wool Week: The yarn of your dreams

IT IS lunch break at the Hoswick Visitor centre. In among the spinning wheels, participants at Niela Nell's Spin from your heart workshop are laying down giant woolly explosions of colour and making...

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Wool Week: Workshops packed to full capacity

INSIDE Jamieson and Smith the quiet hum of conversation cannot mask the mounting tension, writes Genevieve White. It is midday, and 13 knitters have half an hour left to work on their Fair Isle...

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Wool Week: A garment to last a lifetime

Wool Week has taken visitors to some exciting locations over the past week, but as venues go, restored sail-fishing vessel the Swan takes some beating, writes Genevieve White. Friday's sky is grey and...

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Wool week bound to get bigger

LAST week’s Shetland Wool Week was the most successful yet in the still young history of a festival celebrating the local textile industry and the hardy native sheep that provides the wool. Organisers...

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A wonderful week of all things woolly

THE INCREASINGLY popular annual celebration of Shetland's textile industry begins next weekend. The nine day long Shetland Wool Week is enjoying its fifth year and will feature a wide range of...

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