The answer is surprisingly festive. The Fair Isle knit, a two-stranded knitting tradition originating off the coast of Scotland, has been a wardrobe staple for well over 100 years — keeping ...

Fair Isle patterned knitwear developed as early as the early 19th century in fishermen's caps and jumpers. Traditional fair isle patterns use variations of OXO designs and no more than two colours ...

Charting life on Fair Isle, Britain's most remote inhabited island, situated halfway between the Shetland and Orkney Islands, and with a population of just 55 ...

BKNY/Bauer-Griffin/GC(2) Jennifer Lopez clearly has a soft spot for sumptuous Fair Isle sweaters. The Unstoppable actress, 55, wore two of them back-to-back just last month in Aspen. On December ...

A crowdfunding campaign has been launched to raise £650,000 towards rebuilding the famous Fair Isle Bird Observatory after it burned down. The internationally-renowned research centre in Shetland ...