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Traditional Scottish Knitting

Orkney Knitter

All the instructions necessary to make a pair of Traditional Scottish Gloves in the Sanquhar pattern are contained in this Book .A Knitting pack containing all materials and the book (above) is available at £25 (incl p&p) from vanishingscotland.com. The book can be purchased separately.

Now available

Scottish Traditional knitting patterns for Muffatees

in the Sanquhar Pattern.

£5.00 including p&p

Knitting exhibition from the archives of the Galloway Tryst, at Woolfest , Cumbria. To arrange talks ,events or teaching courses , please contact or details.

Alyne Jones received a Glenfiddich Living Scotland Award in 1989, to research the History and Cultural Traditions of Sanquhar Knitting in South West Scotland.

Other Scottish traditions have been documented in Orkney and Shetland, examples of which are part of the collection in the National Museums of Scotland.