HISTORIC KNITTING ARTEFACTS-PART 5 Shetland Jumper
THE COLOURWORK jumper pictured opposite, now part of the knitwear collection at the Shetland Museum and Archives, was originally purchased on Fair Isle in the summer of 1913. It was bought by a Church of Scotland minister, Reverend Robert Logan, and his wife Annie. The sweater was knitted from handspun yarn and dyed with natural dyes; such jumpers were made for sale to tourists from the late 19th century.
According to the museum’s curator, Carol Christiansen: “The patterns are typical of traditional Fair Isle of this period, although it is atypical for garments from Fair Isle to have the same pattern repeated… The jumper may have been purchased for the Logan’s son and eldest child, John Black Logan, who was a petite boy and eight or nine years old at the time.
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