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May 13, 2025May 26, 2025Categories knitting, shetland culture18 Comments on more pictures

Hello everyone, thank you all for the kind comments and messages I received on my last post. I'm back with some more pictures, the first is something I forgot to mention in the last post, I didn't realise - or forgot that for my christening I wore the same robe as dad! me in my…

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dads hap

May 4, 2025May 4, 2025Categories knitting, shetland culture, shetland history24 Comments on dads hap

hello - yes I'm still here! a month ago or so my Auntie Louise was doing some sorting and organising and she found some things she knew I would like! She gave me a couple of Haps: A hap is a shawl, used in Shetland traditionally for babies and as outerwear back in the day,…

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herring photos

Jul 18, 2015Categories shetland, shetland culture, shetland history29 Comments on herring photos

I recently bought these two photos from the saleroom, the photos themselves are nice and they cost me the mighty sum of two pounds but what the photos represent was really why I wanted them. Since I bought them they have sparked an interest in me about my family and the role they played in a…

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