Tag: Elizabeth Johnston

  • Elizabeth’s hands

    Elizabeth’s hands

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    Kate Davies Designs
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    We’ve just heard that one of Tom’s photographs has been shortlisted in this year’s EEF Manufacturing Photo Competition! The theme of the competition this year is “Made by Britain, Loved by the World” and surely few manufactured products speak better to that theme than Shetland wool? A fibre raised and processed in a particular locale;…

  • Gudrun Johnston & Mary Jane Mucklestone

    Gudrun Johnston & Mary Jane Mucklestone

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    Kate Davies Designs
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    One of the best things about working in the field of hand-knit design is that it really is an industry which abounds with good eggs. In my view, two of the very best eggs around are Gudrun Johnston and Mary-Jane Mucklestone: great friends, talented designers, and Shetland enthusiasts. Gudrun spent her early years in Shetland,…

  • Lives in oo

    Lives in oo

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    So this is the new project we are working on which has (until today) been very much under wraps! It has been on our minds for some time now for Tom to pursue a project exploring the documentary photography he particularly enjoys. . . and what better subject than a place we dearly love, and…

  • Shetland Textiles: 800 BC to the Present

    Shetland Textiles: 800 BC to the Present

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    Writing of the worn and mended Fair Isle sweater that Shetland knitter, Doris Hunter created for her fiancé, Ralph Patterson, who spent four years in a Japanese POW camp during the Second World War, editor Sarah Laurenson states: “Ralph’s sweater is much more than a physical object. It is a site of personal and political…