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24 SEP – 2 OcT 2016 www.shetlandwoolweek.com /shetlandwoolweek @ShetlandWoolWk /shetlandwoolweek WELCOME TO SHETLAND WOOL WEEK 2016 ince its birth seven years ago, PARTNERS AND SPONSORS S Shetland Wool Week has grown into an internationally acclaimed festival celebrating Shetland’s fantastic textile heritage. We are proud of our sheep, our textile industry and our pristine environment. Everyone behind Shetland Wool Week makes a real effort to celebrate all aspects of wool and textiles in Shetland – from the farm to the brokers, from the mill to yarn and cloth and beyond to design and creation; history, heritage, culture and education are all crucial too. This year there will be an extensive range of exhibitions, classes, workshops and lectures, covering many different subjects including weaving, spinning, dyeing, Fair Isle and lace knitting as well as lots of other fascinating subjects. Events will take place from Fair Isle right up to Shetland’s most northerly island of Unst, famous for its beautiful lacework, with many locations in between. The Shetland Wool Week committee and organisers bid a very warm welcome to everyone attending Shetland Wool Week 2016. For more detailed descriptions of events visit www.shetlandwoolweek.com Cover image: Alexander Mazurov 2 | SHETLAND WOOL WEEK 2016 A NOTE FROM THE SHETLAND WOOL WEEK 2016 PATRON PARTNERS AND SPONSORS was very proud and excited to be asked I to be Shetland Wool Week patron for 2016. I am extremely passionate about Shetland’s textile culture and heritage. I actually got my job at Jamieson and Smith by helping out at the second Shetland Wool Week, so I have seen the festival grow from strength to strength every year. I have met so many people from all over the world every year at Wool Week and I’m really looking forward to this year’s event, although it will be a very busy time for me! I think it is so important for Shetland’s next generation to embrace the culture we are extremely lucky to be born into, and I am continually inspired by textiles new and old being made here. I have been collecting vintage Shetland knitwear for a number of years now and I love to take inspiration from the pieces I buy from charity shops and online. My Crofthoose hat design features a motif I am known for using. I hope it inspires you to knit it, but also think about our heritage, and how we can keep Shetland’s Ella Gordon skills alive, while updating them for our modern lives. www.ellagordon.wordpress.com Through my blog and online it is so easy to connect with people from all over, and it makes me so happy to know how many people would love to come here and experience Shetland Wool Week. I hope to make Shetlanders proud of our heritage, and share with whoever I can how much I love Shetland wool and Shetland knitting. SHETLAND WOOL WEEK 2016 | 3 EXHIBITIONS, OPEN STUDIOS & OPEN DAYS Nielanell Open Studio Burra Bears Open Studio Ruth Brownlee & Mary Saturday 24th September – Sunday 2nd Saturday 24th September – Sunday 2nd Fraser’s Pop-up Exhibition at October, 0900 – 1700 October, 1000 – 1600 Seawinds Event Provider: Nielanell Event Provider: Burra Bears 24th September – 2nd October (closed Thursday 29th September), 1000 – 1700 Location: Hoswick, Sandwick Location: Meadows Road, Houss, East Burra, ZE2 9LE Event Provider: Ruth Brownlee Box Office Booking:N/A Box Office Booking:N/A Location: 45 Commercial Street, Lerwick Spaces: N/A Spaces: N/A Box Office Booking:N/A Cost: FREE Cost: FREE Spaces: N/A Skill Level: N/A Skill Level: N/A Cost: FREE The Alternative Shetland Knitwear. Visit the studio/shop to find unexpected knitwear, Head towards the East side of Burra Isle and Skill Level: N/A glorious handspun and scrumptious batts discover where the original Shetland Teddy in exotic fibres. Inventive knit collections in Bear is created. Meet Wendy in her workshop Mary Fraser striking colours and distinctive textures using and hear how the first Burra Bear was made Contemporary, fun yet functional products luxurious wool combinations. Designed and over 19 years ago using a recycled Fair Isle using local textiles, fair isle knit and Shetland made in Shetland. Distinctly Nielanell… jumper. tweed. Designed for Comment. Ruth Brownlee Ruth is an award winning landscape painter based in Sandwick. There will be small paintings and limited edition prints available. Open Studio with Ninian The Fair Isle Textile Workshop Making it Contemporary Saturday 24th September – Saturday 1st – Open Studio Exhibition October, 0900 – 1730 Saturday 24th, Wednesday 28th & Friday Tuesday 20th September – Sunday 16th 30th September, 1000 – 1600 October, 1000 – 2100 Event Provider: Ninian Location: 80 Commercial Street, Lerwick, Event Provider: The Fair Isle Textile Workshop Event Provider: Shetland Museum & Archives / Kathy Coull ZE1 0DL Location: Da Gadderie, Shetland Museum & Box Office Booking:N/A Location: Lodberrie Traders, 43 Commercial Archives, Hay’s Dock, Lerwick Street, Lerwick Spaces: N/A Box Office Booking:N/A Box Office Booking:N/A Cost: FREE Spaces: N/A Spaces: N/A Skill Level: N/A Cost: FREE Cost: FREE Skill Level: N/A Joanna and her team are allowing you a Skill Level: N/A sneaky peek behind the scenes, to see where A collection of modern textiles from and how they design and make their knitwear. Just along from the Queen’s Hotel, opposite Shetland College. Come and see the next Drop into the shop and let your mind wander Bains Beach in the historic Lodberries area generation of designers’ work! Be inspired and your creative juices flow! of Lerwick, encounter textile techniques by the revitalisation of old fabric-making in progress, in knit, weave, hand-spinning, techniques, as well as the incorporation of felting and hand-finishing. Fair Isle Home- more contemporary textiles. Created on hand Grown Yarns and Woolwork, sheepskins and looms, V-Bed knitting machines, domestic contemporary designs are brought to you from knitting machines and electronic Shimas. Fair Isle especially for Wool Week. Space is limited, but feel free to drop by with your own makkin’ and join in the fun! 4 | SHETLAND WOOL WEEK 2016 Edges and Extremes Sheila McGregor Focus ShetlandOrganics CIC – Exhibition Display Exhibition Saturday 20th August – Sunday 2nd October, Saturday 20th August – Sunday 2nd October, Saturday 24th September – Sunday 2nd 1000 – 2100 1000 – 2100 October, 1100 – 1700 Event Provider: Shetland Museum & Archives Event Provider: Shetland Museum & Archives Event Provider: ShetlandOrganics CIC Location: Da Gadderie, Shetland Museum & Location: Shetland Museum and Archives, Location: Vaila Fine Art, Commercial Street, Archives, Hay’s Dock, Lerwick Textile Gallery, First Floor, Hay’s Dock, Lerwick 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 This exhibition is a collaborative project by In 1981 Sheila McGregor published The ShetlandOrganics Community Interest visual artist Sally Booth and poet Evlynn Complete Book of Traditional Fair Isle Knitting. Company present and offer for sale the finest Sharp, exploring the remote edges of land. She recently donated a large part of her organic yarns and garments. See listings for Artworks and poetry inspired by people, place research archive to Shetland Museum. workshops, demonstrations and visit to an and industry. Knitting by Annie Henry and Alice This material will be on display for the first organic farm. Johnson will be on display. time, including many items of knitwear she collected during her research. The 19th Century Pattern Unst Heritage Centre Open Traditional Sunday Teas Books Project Exhibition Day: “Yarn wi Unst Spinners with Exhibition of Bressay Saturday 20th August – Sunday 2nd October, and Makkers” Knitwear 1000 – 2100 Wednesday 28th September, 1100 – 1600 Sunday 2nd October, 1400 – 1630 Event Provider: Shetland Museum & Archives Event Provider: Unst Spinners and Knitters Event Provider: Bressay Development Ltd Group Location: Shetland Museum and Archives Location: Bressay Community Hall foyer, Hay’s Dock, Lerwick Location: Unst Heritage Centre, Haroldswick, Box Office Booking:N/A Box Office Booking:N/A Unst Spaces: N/A Spaces: N/A Box Office Booking:N/A Cost: £2.50 entry + teas/fancies Cost: FREE Spaces: N/A Skill Level: N/A Skill Level: N/A Cost: £3/£2 concession Skill Level: N/A Experience traditional Sunday Teas at the Shetland Museum and University of Glasgow Bressay Community Hall and enjoy an present a display of knitted lace samples Chat to local knitters and spinners, see exhibition of Bressay knitwear. Expert knitters from 19th century pattern books. It forms knitting displays including fine lace. Local will be on hand to share their skills so you part of a project to assess published knitwear for sale. Entrance fee £3 or £2 might want to bring your knitting along with ‘Shetland’ patterns, examining how closely concession, no booking required. you. Free transport between Bressay ferry & they resemble motifs used in Shetland lace hall provided on request – call 07547 280 knitting. 040. EXHIBITIONS, OPEN STUDIOS TALKS, ToURS, SHOWS & DROP-INS & OPEN DAYS Exhibition of Fair Isle Knitting Drop-in Knitting, Spinning Shetland Wool Week Through the Ages and Wheel Clinic Opening Reception Wednesday, Friday, Saturdays and Sundays, Saturday 24th, Monday 26th, Wednesday Sunday 25th September, 1830 – 2130 1400 – 1700 28th and Friday 30th September, 1000 – 1230 Event Provider: Shetland Wool Week Event Provider: Whalsay Heritage and Community Centre Event Provider: Hoswick Wool Week Location: Bowls Hall, Clickimin Leisure Complex Location: Whalsay Heritage and Community Location: Hoswick Visitor Centre, Sandwick Centre, Hillhead, Whalsay Box Office Booking:Yes Box Office Booking:N/A Box Office Booking:N/A Spaces: 100 Spaces: N/A Spaces: N/A Cost: £15.00* Cost: FREE Cost: £2.00 Skill Level: N/A Skill Level: N/A Skill Level: N/A Join us as we open Shetland Wool Week Bring your knitting, spinning problems, and 2016! – meet the makers, visiting instructors Whalsay Heritage and Community Centre’s let’s work them out together.