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One of the pleasures of being asked to guide some ‘Ooie folk’ during Wool Week is meeting visitors who are interested in how sheep and crofting developed the Shetland landscape. The downside for last week was once again having to apologise to a visitor because of the...

These images showcase the scale of wool production in factories in the 1920’s.

SHETLAND Wool Week is set to go ahead in person this September after two years of hosting online events due to the Covid pandemic. The festival will take place between 24 September and 2 October 2022. However it will be a scaled back version of the usual physical event, with the...

Australian Wool Innovation’s targeted marketing campaigns in China has led to $122 million in extra sales of Australian wool. AWI’s acting Chief

Sheep farmers are calling on politicians and green activists to back British wool as Wool Week gets underway for a full month this year.

http://shet.news/223jz Copied! THE SHETLAND Wool Week hat pattern for 2021, designed by patron Wilma Malcolmson, has been launched. Due to the cancellation of last year’s physical event, the wool week committee invited Malcolmson to continue her patron role for 2021. Da Crofter’s Kep features traditional Shetland motifs and has been designed in five distinctly different colourways using Shetland wool from Jamieson and Smith, Jamieson’s of Shetland, Uradale Yarns, Shetland ...

SHETLAND Wool Week has been postponed again due to the ongoing uncertainty of the coronavirus pandemic. The festival, which was due to take place at the end of September, was also shelved in 2020, with an emphasis placed instead on virtual events. The popular Wool Week is...