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✦ The World Craft Almanac

Every living craft, documented in full.

Origin, technique, materials, region and the makers still keeping each tradition alive — free to read, growing every week.

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Featured volume

Fair Isle Knitting — Scotland

Fair Isle is a stranded colourwork knitting technique from the Shetland Islands, using just two colours per row to build intricate banded patterns. Named for the tiny island where it developed among crofting families.

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Fair Isle Knitting
Fair Isle Knitting
Irish Crochet
Irish Crochet
Phulkari
Phulkari