A tall ship trip was start of a lifelong connection to the Fair Isle jumper for Lynne Coleman. Now she is reinventing it in cashmere.

using the leftover yarn, their children, too. Suddenly entire nuclear family units were dressed in matching Fair Isle — making it a visual shorthand for ideas of tradition, convention and ...

The Longest Yarn is a knitted recreation of 80 scenes ... Certainly the big fashion statement last year was Fair Isle knitwear. Unhappily, not lovingly crafted by mums and grans but in factories ...