2 weeks Ago By Shetland News
TWO isles designers were put on display in the City of Discovery alongside the best in Scottish contemporary artists at a recent festival. Eve Eunson and Marie Bruhat represented Fair Isle on their visit to the Dundee Design Festival late last month, where they had been invited to exhibit their works. Eunson gave a contemporary spin on the traditional Fair Isle strawback chair, named “cubi chair”.
And the Fair Isle-based Bruhat exhibited a work called 27 Shetland Blues – a colossal handknitted sculptural work which used a full colour pallet of blue yarn from Jamieson’s of Shetland. She said the piece used 12kg of Shetland wool, and had to be washed and steamed by Jamieson’s before it went on display. As well as their works going up for viewing, the pair took part in a programme of talk, workshops and events including a “designer’s brunch”, where artists could bounce ideas off of one another.
Bruhat, who is originally from France and came to live in Fair Isle in 2017, has also created a masterclass to teach Fair Isle knitwear to a global audience. The Fair Isle Academy features 80 videos and over seven hours of instruction, designed to guide knitters through every step of the patterns. There are also monthly live question and answer sessions, and a dedicated forum for students to speak and share their progress.
It is available through the Machine Knit Community platform, at a cost of £165 for a three-month subscription..
