"It was very creative and something that was absolutely intrinsic. It had a meaning for you as you were doing it –it was part of your history."
Bess Jamieson
"All these people were coming from the south and they had their influence all around us, and I thought - I want something of Shetland to remain. The way I could do this would be to create something that would forever attach me to Shetland, so I knitted this stole which would be an heirloom for my daughter."
Elizabeth White
"My granddad learnt me to knit. I remember him sitting showing me how to do it. He made me a small knitting belt out of seal skin.
We always had a graph book with patterns dotted down. A lot of the patterns were just passed on - you would borrow someone’s book and put it in your own book (at primary school)."
Christina Nicholson
All Quotes:
Tristam, S. 2003, The Fabric of Society, M.Des.thesis Heriot Watt University


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