Knitted sweater have a long history

In 1954 years ago,the shetland islands at the north of Scotland, away from the main area of the southern seas, have a little big Fair Isle, windy, cold and distant.Very few people on the island.but even though just a few people, but the sweater pattern what they knit is can be found everywhere in the world.

On August 20, 1588,They use all sorts of design of knitted fabric with woven native to exchange the water and food; They good at plain knitting aboriginal is under the influence of these designs and match colors, developed a fair isle of knitting patterns: geometry, snowflakes, sheep, deer, plants and other elements have become the characteristics of the fair isle knitting pattern.

By William Merritt Chase

Traditional fair isle of knitted garments, using a variety of colour of bright and beautiful hand spinning: barter for indigo dye;Extracted from bistort yellow;Purple madder roots and exchange to dye and other non-ferrous made emerging red dye plants, used to distinguish between new old sweater...They tried all ways to make the sweater more beautiful.They use the dyed wool weaves patterns, a pattern is usually not more than 3 kinds of color, in addition to the above subject to the color of the dye, wool and deer hair natural color, such as gray, brown, brown, this white are also common.To date, on the island and manual textile and use of natural dyes and dyeing techniques.