Heather Delday
We were walking (most evenings) into Lerwick
through quite an ugly industrial area when I noticed some
rubbish
outside
a small scruffy building. Suddenly I saw an intriguing
image of a globe with a ribbon around it. I liked the aesthetic
of the cheap printing, it looked like a rubber stamp. The
image made me smile - the idea of the whole world, magnetic
north, Shetland’s location, on-the-edge. In colour
and small it suggested a ball of wool. An ambiguity because
of scale – the world becomes a ball of wool.
Hazel Hughson This
is interesting as Shetland traded woolen textiles globally
for centuries, starting in the form of socks to make
up a shipload of salt cod to the Mediterranean.
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