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Fair Isle
- a banded geometrical pattern knitted into garments using variously colored woolen yarns.
- clothing featuring such a pattern, especially sweaters.
Fair Isle
noun
- an intricate multicoloured pattern knitted with Shetland wool into various garments, such as sweaters
Word History and Origins
Origin of Fair Isle1
Word History and Origins
Origin of Fair Isle1
Example Sentences
Fair Isle is a distinctive form of stranded colorwork used to create rows of intricate patterns.
There is the girl with the tie-dyed purse and the woven Fair Isle flats (so Urban Outfitters).
IN the fair isle of Cyprus, long ago, lived a young sculptor named Pygmalion.
Fair Isle is a lonely island midway between the Orkney and Shetland islands.
On the third day after leaving the Orkneys we sighted Fair Isle, looming faintly through a mist of snow, far to starboard.
On Fair Isle, one of the Shetland group, the art is first said to have been discovered, very many years ago.
It would seem as if the Fair Isle had some attraction for “persons of quality.”
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