A CELEBRATION OF SHETLAND’S BEST FOOD, DRINK, MUSIC, CRAFT AND CULTURE
Crafts
Some of Shetland’s best craftspeople will once again showcase their products highlighting the range of craft and knitwear available locally. Visitors will be able to browse through the market stalls and buy quality items.
Companies taking part this year are as follows:
Aamos Designs
Aamos Designs is a unique textile company created by designers Claire Henry and Emma Blain. Their new collection includes woven scarves, baby blankets and cushions, as well as colourful knitted scarves and accessories. Visit the website.
Austin Taylor Photography
Austin Taylor Photography creates stunning photographs of wildlife, viewpoints and events from around Shetland and these are available in print or licensed. The images reflect Austin’s lifelong fascination with all aspects of the natural environment, as well as his interest in photographing people and events. Austin says, “Shetland is a fantastic place to take pictures with landscape and wildlife as fine as anywhere matched by a constantly changing light to add atmosphere – I’ve been fortunate to capture some astounding landscape, wildlife and astronomical drama, but there’s enough to keep me going for at least another 20 years!” Visit the website.
Barbara Isbister Knitwear
Traditional and modern Fair Isle knitwear, hand-frame knitted and hand finished.
Burra Bears
The Original Shetland Teddy Bear. Delightful, collectable bears handmade in the Shetland island of Burra, produced from recycled traditional Fair Isle knitwear and Shetland Tweed. Each bear comes with his own name and personality making them as individual and unique as we are! Vist the website.
Glansin Glass
Glansin Glass is an exciting new craft business based in Unst, producing unique handmade glassware. The range of kiln-formed glass includes jewellery, bowls, plates and wall hangings. Fused glass artist Cheryl Jamieson, draws her inspiration from her native natural surroundings. Some of her more unusual pieces feature the striking combination of fused glass and driftwood.
Hnoss Jewellery
The word Hnoss (pronounced noss) is the Old Norse word for treasure, and that is what these pieces of jewellery are designed to be. The jewellery is made from gold, silver, bronze and copper. This is truly hand-made jewellery. Hnoss use a variety of techniques from knitting and crochet through to wire wrapping. The techniques date back as far as the early Viking period. Rather than just making reproduction pieces only, we add a modern twist to them as well. All pieces come with a lifetime guarantee. Handmade jewellery inspired by time.
Joanna Hunter Knitwear
Offering an alternative take on the traditional Shetland knitwear with her exclusive Funky Fair Isle collection. Merging the much loved Fair Isle patterns with modern styled garments and alternative colours Joanna has created a truly unique collection. Her collections include cardigans, jumpers, dresses and a wide variety of accessories including her much loved wrist warmers. Her works sells locally in her shop Ninian on Lerwick's main street as well as through a large number of retailers throughout the UK, Japan, Scandinavia and the USA. Visit the website.
Journeyman Leather
Some of the finest leather belts and bags, saddlery and tack available anywhere in the world – all made in Shetland. Visit the website.
PhatSheep Textiles
Bold, contemporary print designs by Suzanne Shearer incorporated into a range of cotton and linen textiles, including badges, purses and a selection of home wares. Visit the website.
PhatSheep Photography
Beautiful, artistic Shetland images by local photographer Mark Sinclair. Professionally mounted prints available in standard frame sizes. Visit the website.
Pink Fish
Hand-made items including brooches, badges, key rings, cards and new for 2009, mini sculptures, free standing and wall hanging. All of which have a Shetland flavour, some made from driftwood found around the Shetland coastline.
Shana
Using 100% Shetland wool and traditional Fair Isle designs, Shana combine hand-frame knitting and intricate sewing techniques to produce distinctive garments and accessories to suit all ages. The range consists of 5 different styles of handbags, scarves, gloves, tank/vest tops, cushions and mobile phone holders. Shana is proud to present their current collection, keeping a valued Shetland heritage very much alive. Visit the website.
Shetland Teddy Bear Company
A unique collection of handmade, traditionally jointed bears, made entirely of Shetland wool in a variety of colours, fabrics, sizes and characters. Each bear comes with a certificate of authenticity and is numbered and signed by the artist. Our bears are especially unique in that they have attained the CE Safety mark so are safe to give to children. Choose to love a Shetland Teddy Bear... and they will love you back. Visit the website.
Shoormal Miniatures
Shoormal sheep are made with Shetland fleece. They play musical instruments, knit, spin, shop and BBQ – they can do almost anything we can! Shoormal Trows dressed in Shetland knitwear. Meet Gibi the good luck trow and Lachie Lang-Legs with an original poem in Shetland dialect written especially for him. Original hand-made dolls including a little lady seated with her knitting, a Shetland wife with her basket of wool, a crofter and a beautiful Selki on her rock. All figures designed and hand-made by Verity Blackman.
Spindrift Crafts
Spindrift Crafts create Textile Art using felted wool and stitch. Their most recent project has involved growing natural dye plants in Shetland to colour wool. Find out how natural dye plants create beautiful colours. They sell hangings, pictures, hand-made paper cast into Shetland related images, decorative artefacts and note cards of their work.
