I love how this woman is kind to her sheeps, and very gentle with them. 💖💖 Many Americans and Filipino Knitters are falling in love with fair isle knitting. I love the music of Scotland.
If I lived in a country where it requires a wool jumper. I will definitely buy one from this lady. The amount of work and hours spent from the sheep to the final products deserved a respects.
This is what life is all about. We just need to live with the earth. What a remarkable woman! A breath of fresh air. Would that we all lived with the earth. Praise God and bless you from on high!
Great history and traditions of production certainly bring great results and achievements ! Handmade and high quality products made of wool ! It's impossible not to buy ! Thank You dear Bloomberg for Your very interesting and helpful shot film ! I appreciate it ! Vl'ado. Nov 10,2018
I love your work from northern Algeria,me too I product my yarn by myself, washing the wool by my hand ,traditional, I fabric ,and knitting whithe my hand.
Can you imagine what that sweater would cost of they didn’t use that knitting machine? ...Which, by the way, those things are a stroke of engineering genius IMHO. I saw a similar device elsewhere on youtube, but for knitting hats or socks.
That is a lot of hand work in what is ostensibly a "machine" knitted jumper. I hope the people who end up wearing them appreciate them. Also, interesting little FYI: although a lot of Fair Isle work is done with what is called "fingering" weight yarn (we'd say 3 - 4 ply in Australia), the finished product is more like a double knit because of the floats at the back. (I do a little Fair Isle knitting by hand.)
I have seen people using these knitting machines here in Manipur, India . it's really interesting to see the art. it's like a typewriter . I heard that it is a Japanese product.
I guess my grandma was very cool. She knitted a lot of dresses and sweaters by hand, with quite complex patterns on them. She taught me too, as a child, but I can’t do patterns and stuff...
Ah man a haircut again? That is beautiful..thank u for ur kindness and understanding ...my grandmother was from Edinburgh and we plan on traveling to see there home and buy me a sweater...my wife is Irish so I promised her an Irish sweater... lol I would live to purchase a sweater from u...I love a turtle neck style.
So her life is: 1. Grazing 2. Sheering 3. Knitting 4. Selling 5. Doing in all in an isolated place Saying I’m ‘jealous’ would be an extreme understatement.
Very interesting. Very informative. Q: From the time your shear the animal until the time you finally have a completely finished garment that is finally put up on a drying 'rack' then, ultimately sold -- how long is the whole process? Are we talking about a month or more; or slightly less?
472017807 Hi! I live in Orkney and we are closely knitted to Shetland. Both places share a similar accent called orcadian. We also have our own language which sounds like heavy Gaelic that’s been thrown through Texas haha
Merino is softer than Shetland but that also makes it far weaker because it is the thinness of the fiber that makes it so soft. It has to be mixed with another wool so it does not break. This happens with many other super soft wools too like cashmere (goat) and angora (rabbit). Shetland is probably the softest you could get that holds its own and doesn't need to be mixed.
@@aphyngodiva2551 merino does no have to to be mixed with anything. i have spun yarn from pure merino wool and knitted lots of 100% merino sweaters. the main reason why merino wool gets blended with other fibers is usually as a cost-cutting measure, or if it is intended to be used in socks.
she's not actually knitting, the machine is. although i do like the idea of being able to program the machine with the punch sheet. doing this by hand is more authentic but quite time consuming.
Nicely made jumpers but not as authentic as the film would have you believe. Lots of slick marketing going on for her "brand". There are those on the island who disagree with her using machines as Fair Isle jumpers are traditionally hand knit, not made on machines. The hand knit ones are the real deal and will cost $600 and have a waiting list of 3 years to get one. Funny how she never mentions them LOL
greenknitter The documentary was about my work not about the island therefore the focus on my things and not on what other knitters do in the island. I will advice you to check the information you got about the making of garments in Fair Isle, because all the other knitters make their garments using the same machines. Hollie Shaw and Triona Thomson from ‘Fair Isle made in Fair Isle’ and Elizabeth Riddiford from ‘Exclusively Fair Isle’ all knit with machines; in fact the island has been producing garments with hand frame knitting machines for over 30 years. I am the only business offering a truly bespoke service and the only wanting to grow and expand to create a made in Fair Isle label in order to make the real product accessible to most markets. Since the documentary we now have 2 new projects, Fair Isle Artisans which focuses on passing on skills and creating competitive jobs in the island and MV Collection, making the garments accessible to younger people and promoting Shetland wool commercially.
Green knitter above mentioned that hand made authentic Fair Isle sweaters cost $600. A hand made sweater has a distinctive look that can't be reproduced. That's the beauty of nature - that no two things are alike and I think we all value that more than putting some yarn on a knitting machine. How sad we've become so accustomed to machine made products that the imperfections of a hand made garment are considered inconsistent. Very sad, indeed.
greenknitter How long does it take to knit an item by hand? ... How long does it take to knit a fair isle item by hand with its many color changes and intricate patterns? How do you think she or any like her would be able to earn a livelihood if they produced these things by hand? She can shear sheep, we saw that. She designed the pattern, we saw that also. And the process of how the item is made is shown. So I don't think there was something to hide. If hers is a viable, thriving business producing beautifully made items, which take time and a boatload of effort, please take your negativity elsewhere. And if you are NOT an actual knitter and just an admirer (even if you are) don't judge her livelihood so harshly. This is as close to a hand knitted garment that you can wear with confidence (unless you make it yourself), because she puts all of her efforts into it.
Debah Noln If you wanted fair isle knitting handmade, you should design an item and make it yourself instead of being too judgmental. It's not the end of the world that blind, nuns didn't knit the items she sells. The items are beautiful and as close to as natural as you can get. They're not produced en masse, so essentially you'd be getting a one of a kind item. Stop your complaining.
If you do not prefer Fair Isle, then why are you complaining? Is she a mass producer? If so, so what, it's her livelihood.... Or maybe you just need a hobby. Buddy!
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As I get older I have started to appreciate hand made things so much..respect
I love how this woman is kind to her sheeps, and very gentle with them. 💖💖 Many Americans and Filipino Knitters are falling in love with fair isle knitting. I love the music of Scotland.
That sheep looks happy
Happy sheep: yay! 😊
Fitrian Hidayat@ if she held my head near her crotch like that, I’d be very happy too. Baaaaaaa !
The sweaters are gorgeous and worth every penney!!!
Chloe Bell Mmm Penne pasta. I'm getting hungry 😩
Im sure she lives a happy and fulfilling life with a lot less stress than the rest of us. This is life like nature intended.
lifes better if you have money
Nature intended us to die at 30 what the fuck are you on about
Sure sure sure
@@AwesomeAsh99 woah really
Nature didn't intend anything. It's a concept, not an intelligent being.
If I lived in a country where it requires a wool jumper. I will definitely buy one from this lady. The amount of work and hours spent from the sheep to the final products deserved a respects.
Great video! I loved it all-scenery, music, sheep, wool, knitting, yarn.... All of this filmed with great understanding. Thank you!
Awesome. I love the way the sheep are sheared.
Scottish and French hybrid accent - interesting.
Thank you for this--I thought I was going crazy.
Wonderful accent!
Okay !!!!!!! I was wondering why she sounded so un-highlandish
Loved the way she cut the fleece off the sheep, adorable ❤️
This just made me so happy , she handle the sheep with love ❤️
Wool seems softer when the source is remote 😂
I loved watching this! I love that she is so talented and preserving a culture.
I love your picture. So natural!
My friend and her mother both knit Fair Isle style sweaters but not to sell. it is quite a process when hand-knitting.
soo beautiful so pristine thankyou for showing us these lovely islands and skills you have
This is what life is all about. We just need to live with the earth. What a remarkable woman! A breath of fresh air. Would that we all lived with the earth. Praise God and bless you from on high!
Training Grounds thank you for such lovely comment. Fair Isle has given a new purpose to my life...
Take it down a notch, mate.
Beautiful work. Such a fantastic location and workshop. Although, I don't believe that it is the world's softest wool.
Those magic words: "It's full of satisfaction." Can't think of any better words to describe a working life.
How inspiring!!! you are an amazing artist. Your sheep just looks so contented. Love your work.
Very neat to see the process done. I want to make a fair isle by hand some day :)
Oh I love how u shear them by hand. Yes the sheep look so much happier then if u for them .
I love her gentle voice
Great history and traditions of production certainly bring great results and achievements !
Handmade and high quality products made of wool !
It's impossible not to buy !
Thank You dear Bloomberg for Your very interesting and helpful shot film !
I appreciate it !
Vl'ado. Nov 10,2018
Priceless sweater.
Thank you for your craftmanships
I love your work from northern Algeria,me too I product my yarn by myself, washing the wool by my hand ,traditional, I fabric ,and knitting whithe my hand.
I am quite new to knitting and would love a machine, would you mind sharing which machine you are using in the film please?
Hi from Karachay, Caucasus!) very inspiring, keep it up!
I find a lot in common between our native culture and Scottish culture.
See the animals are not suffering this is how all sheep wool must be made
So much beauty and simplicity keeping up tradition
This is like high quality one of a kind. Best garment u can wear
Can you imagine what that sweater would cost of they didn’t use that knitting machine? ...Which, by the way, those things are a stroke of engineering genius IMHO. I saw a similar device elsewhere on youtube, but for knitting hats or socks.
You right!!! And I can't wait to get in this business
thats very much intresting and very passionate and fells like more close to earth
what a nice story and beautiful products
That's an expensive sweater, but looking at the process, if I had the money I'd gladly pay for it
That is a lot of hand work in what is ostensibly a "machine" knitted jumper.
I hope the people who end up wearing them appreciate them.
Also, interesting little FYI: although a lot of Fair Isle work is done with what is called "fingering" weight yarn (we'd say 3 - 4 ply in Australia), the finished product is more like a double knit because of the floats at the back. (I do a little Fair Isle knitting by hand.)
This woman has figured out life. More fulfilling than a corporate career!
I don't know which is more beautiful, Scotland or the sweaters, but for 160 Euros, I know which one I'm going to have.
Your information is very awesome thank you for taking the time to pass on tradition.
Wonderful video. Thank you for making it.
I have seen people using these knitting machines here in Manipur, India . it's really interesting to see the art. it's like a typewriter . I heard that it is a Japanese product.
This is couture quality.
I guess my grandma was very cool. She knitted a lot of dresses and sweaters by hand, with quite complex patterns on them. She taught me too, as a child, but I can’t do patterns and stuff...
So much work for 120 euro?
160€
Ah man a haircut again? That is beautiful..thank u for ur kindness and understanding ...my grandmother was from Edinburgh and we plan on traveling to see there home and buy me a sweater...my wife is Irish so I promised her an Irish sweater... lol I would live to purchase a sweater from u...I love a turtle neck style.
So her life is:
1. Grazing
2. Sheering
3. Knitting
4. Selling
5. Doing in all in an isolated place
Saying I’m ‘jealous’ would be an extreme understatement.
Mmmmm!!!!!!!!!!!! Delicious!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Woolly sweaters!!!!!! Not for deserts and the tropics.
Shetland..i loved that serial..
This is so beautiful! Everything I mean.
Very interesting. Very informative. Q: From the time your shear the animal until the time you finally have a completely finished garment that is finally put up on a drying 'rack' then, ultimately sold -- how long is the whole process? Are we talking about a month or more; or slightly less?
I love the place more than wool.
I love every bit of this video
Not a bad price for all the work and material that goes into it.
Does anyone know what machine she was using for the knitting?
SO PLEASE HOW MAY I PURCHASE ONE OF THESE DIVINE SWEATERS FROM HER????😍😍😍
Is it possible to buy skeins or balls of Shetland wool yarn and ship to Canada?
Wow the accent almost half Icelandic/Scottish which makes sense
472017807 Hi! I live in Orkney and we are closely knitted to Shetland. Both places share a similar accent called orcadian. We also have our own language which sounds like heavy Gaelic that’s been thrown through Texas haha
472017807 she’s French
A proper Shetland wool sweater runs between 200-400 Pounds but man, they are so completely worth it.
Well done!
The views are amazing
She's very talented, I plan to move to the Shetlands in some years.
A dream to work in this field for a living. Hello! From Seattle. Another knitted of the world.
Hi which program is she using for testing the jacquard?
i love your work
This is amazing.
so its actually "one of the softest" not THE softest.
Merino is softer than Shetland but that also makes it far weaker because it is the thinness of the fiber that makes it so soft. It has to be mixed with another wool so it does not break. This happens with many other super soft wools too like cashmere (goat) and angora (rabbit). Shetland is probably the softest you could get that holds its own and doesn't need to be mixed.
@@aphyngodiva2551 merino does no have to to be mixed with anything. i have spun yarn from pure merino wool and knitted lots of 100% merino sweaters. the main reason why merino wool gets blended with other fibers is usually as a cost-cutting measure, or if it is intended to be used in socks.
Don’t forget the Vicuña and Tengri Khangai fibres.
I found shetland wool is more itchy than merino or cashmere.
@@victornewman508 are you allergic?
I like the sheeps.
Amazing
Love the video
wow! Nice video
yo tell me that sheeps arent the cutest thing ever
I would like a hat!
i will pay upto 350 euro fore that natural hand made dress
Stop hating on the knitting machine or go knit one of these and try not to get carpel tunnel
Yeah alot of effort goes into these things. Thd next time my grandma gives me an ugly sweater for Christmas, maybe I'll decline it more politely
Great video
she's not actually knitting, the machine is. although i do like the idea of being able to program the machine with the punch sheet. doing this by hand is more authentic but quite time consuming.
What a dream job
Amazing.
Please let me know do you export your goods as well or they are just for domestic sale and Special Orders ?
Thanks
Beautiful
Wow really fair price
Awesome
The machine is more interesting than hand knitting
💕💕💫🙌🏾 she is a boss!!! 🌺
I assumed that traditional sweaters would be hand not machine knit so i was surprised nit to see that in this video.
Okay... now I understand the pricing. Wow!
Wow ! It's incredible. :)
Is it always hand made or that's just 4 camera
Happy sheep make the softest wool
Wow lots of work. No wonder is so expensive.
I just can say You are wonderful
I'm more interested the island view and the sheep 🐑
She preserved the old heritage
Any chance,,, they can be shipped to India???
Can you please write to me, where can I buy a machine like that?
Nicely made jumpers but not as authentic as the film would have you believe. Lots of slick marketing going on for her "brand". There are those on the island who disagree with her using machines as Fair Isle jumpers are traditionally hand knit, not made on machines. The hand knit ones are the real deal and will cost $600 and have a waiting list of 3 years to get one. Funny how she never mentions them LOL
greenknitter The documentary was about my work not about the island therefore the focus on my things and not on what other knitters do in the island. I will advice you to check the information you got about the making of garments in Fair Isle, because all the other knitters make their garments using the same machines. Hollie Shaw and Triona Thomson from ‘Fair Isle made in Fair Isle’ and Elizabeth Riddiford from ‘Exclusively Fair Isle’ all knit with machines; in fact the island has been producing garments with hand frame knitting machines for over 30 years. I am the only business offering a truly bespoke service and the only wanting to grow and expand to create a made in Fair Isle label in order to make the real product accessible to most markets. Since the documentary we now have 2 new projects, Fair Isle Artisans which focuses on passing on skills and creating competitive jobs in the island and MV Collection, making the garments accessible to younger people and promoting Shetland wool commercially.
Green knitter above mentioned that hand made authentic Fair Isle sweaters cost $600. A hand made sweater has a distinctive look that can't be reproduced. That's the beauty of nature - that no two things are alike and I think we all value that more than putting some yarn on a knitting machine. How sad we've become so accustomed to machine made products that the imperfections of a hand made garment are considered inconsistent. Very sad, indeed.
greenknitter How long does it take to knit an item by hand? ... How long does it take to knit a fair isle item by hand with its many color changes and intricate patterns?
How do you think she or any like her would be able to earn a livelihood if they produced these things by hand?
She can shear sheep, we saw that. She designed the pattern, we saw that also. And the process of how the item is made is shown. So I don't think there was something to hide. If hers is a viable, thriving business producing beautifully made items, which take time and a boatload of effort, please take your negativity elsewhere. And if you are NOT an actual knitter and just an admirer (even if you are) don't judge her livelihood so harshly. This is as close to a hand knitted garment that you can wear with confidence (unless you make it yourself), because she puts all of her efforts into it.
Debah Noln If you wanted fair isle knitting handmade, you should design an item and make it yourself instead of being too judgmental. It's not the end of the world that blind, nuns didn't knit the items she sells.
The items are beautiful and as close to as natural as you can get. They're not produced en masse, so essentially you'd be getting a one of a kind item. Stop your complaining.
If you do not prefer Fair Isle, then why are you complaining? Is she a mass producer? If so, so what, it's her livelihood.... Or maybe you just need a hobby. Buddy!
those look like happy sheep
Wow ❤
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