Lab Outcomes
Education resource for Shetland knitting
 


Hazel Hughson
We are missing a resource for creative teaching of Shetland Knitting in schools to promote the skills within the tradition and expand their uses into non-functional textiles as well as knitted garments. We have a new draft strategy for promoting culture in Shetland schools including indigenous skills. I feel strongly that there is a need for a CDRom or some other IT resource that offers a new visual approach, education and inspirational.

It could have a market place other than Shetland. There are agencies working with and promoting educational resources. The development would need IT assistance and in researching new materials to knit and weave with (The Schools Instructors loved the idea of knitting in luminescent fibre) and a collaboration with some of the skills of the knitting instructors and also educators in Shetland. It would build on the tools and materials developed and explored in the Lab, such as the cut out toast method and the electro luminescent and metalised fibres of Frankie Geesin.

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