Date
Saturday, 5 April 2025
Time
12:30 - 13:30 (1 hour)
Price
£5
Location
Edinburgh Printmakers
(Castle Mills, 1 Dundee St, Edinburgh, EH3 9FP)
1998 saw the release of a new “old yarn”. Yarns International Shetland 2000 was a venture of US local yarn store owner Betty Lindsay and Jamieson & Smith, making available for the first time in the US, Shetland knitting wool that was undyed and came in multiple colours. Its release was the beginning of a new way of thinking about colour in knitting and helped change how yarn and designs are marketed. This talk tells that story and examines the role that Betty and her partners had in shaping our hand knitting industry today.
Join Nora L Howley - knitter, researcher and storyteller - for this fascinating tale! Nora is particularly interested in the stories of the relationships between patterns, yarns, people, and places.