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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