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Shetland Wool Week 2018 22 - 30 SEPTEMBER 2018 www.shetlandwoolweek.com /shetlandwoolweek @ShetlandWoolWk /shetlandwoolweek WELCOME TO SHETLAND WOOL WEEK 2018 e are now welcoming nine years of These will include Fair Isle, lace knitting, W bringing Shetland Wool Week to you. crochet, weaving, felt, dye, spinning as well as Since it started Shetland Wool Week many practical problem solving and design has continued to flourish and has grown into led classes too. a large-scale, internationally acclaimed event There will also be a selection of tours and crofting which celebrates our wonderful textile heritage. visits to key textile locations throughout the We enjoy working with the wider textile isles, taking in all areas from north, south, east community throughout the year to put together to west. Many community halls will be hosting an extensive nine-day programme of events that exhibitions, demonstrations, and drop-in events captures the authenticity of Shetland, its cultural as well as offering their famous teas. heritage and its strong tradition in knitting, Shetland Wool Week presents the perfect textiles and wool. opportunity to slow down, soak up the island This year our programme includes a wide range culture, meet new friends, and learn new skills of exhibitions, classes and events, tours and along the way. talks, which will cover many different subjects. We look forward to welcoming you to Our highly-skilled tutors and experts will run Shetland Wool Week 2018. specialist classes and events that cover a variety of techniques and topics. PARTNERS AND SPONSORS Cover image: Alex Boak 2 Shetland Wool Week is a Shetland Amenity Trust initiative. For Terms and Conditions visit www.shetlandwoolweek.com A NOTE FROM THE SHETLAND WOOL WEEK 2018 PATRON am honoured to be this year’s Shetland I Wool Week patron. I have been actively involved in the event for some time, running classes for the last five years with Niela Kalra at Hoswick. I love the buzz of Shetland Wool Week, so being this year’s patron will only add to my overall enjoyment. I am a Shetlander, and like many others who grew up in the islands, have knitted from childhood. For us, knitting was something we did. Learning to knit Fair Isle and lace garments was a matter of course – and with no printed patterns. Without realising it, girls, and some boys, were learning Northern Lights by David Gifford professional knitting skills, knitwear design and colour theory, and as wool week participants you I have loved designing the SWW hat pattern, can learn some of those skills in the many classes the Merrie Dancers Toorie as well. The kep has a and events during the week. dark background with colours that remind me of the northern lights, or ‘merrie dancers’. You Buying a spinning wheel in 1978, changed my can blend or contrast any colours and I have focus from knitting to spinning... and spinning suggested a variety that use yarns from Jamieson becomes an addiction. Life slowly changed to & Smith; Jamieson’s of Shetland; Uradale Yarns include spinning as well as knitting, and also and Shetland Handspun. I’m looking forward to teaching these skills, and eventually I started seeing what everyone comes up with. my business, Shetland Handspun. It has taken me to many places, meeting many wonderful Elizabeth Johnston people along the way, but my home will always www.shetlandhandspun.com be Shetland. For more detailed descriptions of events, including transport, materials or homework required please visit www.shetlandwoolweek.com 5 EXHIBITIONS, OPEN STUDIOS & OPEN DAYS Gilly Bridle Exhibition Nottingham-Shetland Yet Another Happening Saturday 1st – Sunday 30th September, Knitted Lace Saturday 22nd September to Thursday 27th 1000 – 1900 Research Project September, 1400 – 2000 Event Provider: Shetland Museum & Archives Saturday 22nd – Sunday 30th September, Event Provider: Ollaberry SWI and friends 1000 – 1900 Location: Upper Foyer, Shetland Museum & Location: Ollaberry Hall, Ollaberry Archives, Hay’s Dock, Lerwick Event Provider: Shetland Museum & Archives Box Office Booking:N/A Box Office Booking:N/A Location: Shetland Museum and Archives, Hay’s Dock, Lerwick Spaces: N/A Spaces: N/A Box Office Booking: N/A Cost: £6.00 Cost: FREE Spaces: N/A Skill Level: N/A Skill Level: N/A Cost: FREE Display of old and new knitwear, mainly haps Gilly Bridle trained as a textile designer and shawls. Meet the knitters and spinners, specialising in knitwear, but latterly she has Skill Level: N/A aged 8 years and up. Demonstrations of been designing through the mediums of paper spinning and shawl finishing. Entrance fee cut and colourful collage. The designs are View the results of phase 2 of a collaborative includes tea and homebakes. Tell us about then printed onto fabric which are made into project by Drs Carol Christiansen and Roslyn your own wool projects, while you enjoy our objects such as lampshades. Gilly is inspired Chapman to investigate design differences relaxing event. by people and creatures that live around her between Shetland hand-made lace and in Shetland. ‘Shetland’ lace patterns published in 19th century knitting pattern books. Spinning a Yarn: Simone Burra Bears Open Studio Kaleidoscope Landwehr-Traxler Saturday 22nd September – Sunday 30th Saturday 22nd September – Sunday 30th Monday 10th September – Friday 12th September, 1000 – 1600 September, 1000 – 1900 October, 1000 – 1900 Event Provider: Burra Bears Event Provider: University of the Highlands and Islands, Shetland College Event Provider: Shetland Museum & Archives Location: Burra Bears Studio, Meadows Location: Foyer Corridor, Shetland Museum & Road, Houss, East Burra Location: Da Gadderie, Shetland Museum and Archives, Hay’s Dock, Lerwick Archives, Hay’s Dock, Lerwick Box Office Booking:N/A Box Office Booking: N/A Box Office Booking:N/A Spaces: N/A Spaces: N/A Spaces: N/A Cost: FREE Cost: FREE Cost: FREE Skill Level: N/A Skill Level: N/A Skill Level: N/A Head towards the east side of Burra Isle and Simone visited Shetland in 2016 to study Fair discover where the original Shetland Teddy An exhibition celebrating The Year of Young Isle patterns. This exhibition is the result of Bear is created. Meet Wendy in her workshop People 2018, embracing the talent of the up her reflections on the origin of these knitting and hear how the first Burra Bear was made and coming young designers of Shetland. An patterns. She previously exhibited this work in over 21 years ago using a recycled Fair Isle exhibition of all things textile with a general Glasgow at the House for an Art Lover. jumper. theme of Shetland pattern. Come and see what the designers of tomorrow have in store for us today. 6 For more detailed descriptions of events, including transport, materials or homework required please visit www.shetlandwoolweek.com EXHIBITIONS, OPEN STUDIOS & OPEN DAYS Global Yell Open Studio Nielanell Design Studio Hoswick Wool Week Drop-In Saturday 22nd – Tuesday 25th; 29th & 30th Saturday 22nd September – Sunday 30th Saturday 22nd September – Saturday 29th September, 1100 – 1500 September, 0900 – 1730 (Sunday 30th September, 1000 – 1700 0900 – 1600) Event Provider: GlobalYell Event Provider: Hoswick Wool Week Event Provider: Niela Nell Kalra Location: GlobalYell, 4 Sellafirth Business Location: Hoswick Visitor Centre, Hoswick, Park, Yell Location: Nielanell Studio, Hoswick, Sandwick Sandwick Box Office Booking:Yes Box Office Booking:N/A Box Office Booking:No Spaces: 100 Spaces: N/A Spaces: N/A Cost: FREE Cost: FREE Cost: FREE Skill Level: N/A Skill Level: N/A Skill Level: N/A Open studios at GlobalYell, weaving centre. Enjoy teas, coffees, home bakes, and light Try your hand at a loom or look through the A place of pilgrimage for those in the know – lunches – all through Wool Week. Take your reference collection and library. visit the studio/shop to find an unexpected coffee to the Wool Week Drop-in area to range of knitwear, glorious handspun and enjoy the company of crafters and other wool scrumptious batts (and buried under all weekers, or peruse the textile library. A great that – Niela herself!) Inventive knit collections stop during a visit to the South Mainland. in striking colours and distinctive textures Free WiFi. that suit all shapes and sizes. The Alternative Shetland Knitwear... Distinctly Nielanell. Designed for Comment. ShetlandOrganics Bound by the Land: Freed CIC – Exhibition by the Sea. An Exhibition Saturday 22nd September – Sunday 30th in Knit and Glass September, 1100 – 1700 Saturday 22nd September – Sunday 30th September, 0900 – 1730 (Sunday 30th Event Provider: ShetlandOrganics CIC 0900 – 1600) Location: Vaila Fine Art, Commercial Street, Lerwick Event Provider: Niela Nell Kalra Box Office Booking:N/A Location: Nielanell Studio, Hoswick, Sandwick Spaces: N/A Box Office Booking:N/A Come along to the offi cial Cost: FREE Shetland Wool Week hub to meet Spaces: N/A fellow Wool Weekers. Skill Level: N/A Cost: FREE Located in the Gadderie at the Shetland Museum & Archives, it’s the perfect place to ShetlandOrganics Community Interest Skill Level: N/A relax and knit throughout the week, pick up Company present and offer for sale finest your membership pack and fi nd out what’s organic yarns and garments. See listings for An exhibition in knit and glass located within happening each day. There is also a handy workshops, demonstrations and visit to an an original crofthouse. Artist Niela Kalra noticeboard where you can leave messages organic farm. interprets the landmark court case which to swap tickets and share lifts. arises from the Hoswick Whale Caa, 1888. Drop-in 10am–7pm for coffee. She explores themes of equity; and the Hay’s Dock Café is situated upstairs tenacity, resilience and bravery of Shetland and will be offering an earlybird Crofters through glass processes including menu from 5–6.00pm. casting and printing. Knitted panels reflect imagery inspired by the landscape.
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