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The Origins Of Jamieson & Smith Shetland Wool Brokers

Article Category: Arts and Crafts

Author Name: Marsha Dooley

Jamieson & Smith Shetland Wool Brokers purchase Shetland wool from over 700 of Shetland's crofters and farmers, and transform it into high-quality Shetland wool products including yarns, knitwear, blankets and carpets.

Shetland wool is an incredibly natural and sustainable fiber, and is world renowned for its fineness and warmth. Shetland Sheep graze on the islands' hills and beaches eating wild heather and seaweed. This diet, along with the not-so-great weather, makes Shetland wool soft, strong and warm.

Shetland Wool is also very diverse: it's perfect for hand-knitting both Shetland Lace and Fair Isle, also for knitwear manufacture and weaving. They hand sort and grade their wool and, to ensure that they do not waste anything, the coarser parts of the fleece are used in carpets and mats..

Everything they do at Jamieson & Smith is with the aim of enhancing the profile of Shetland wool, so as to raise the prices for local wool producers..

A 2009 trading standards investigation revealed that Jamieson & Smith purchase over 80 % of the wool produced in Shetland. Therefore Jamieson & Smith's activities play a fundamental part in sustaining Shetland's fragile crofting industry, along with the textiles industry and heritage..

To ensure the future of the Shetland wool industry they work closely with key organizations, collaborate with new designers and are dedicated to textile innovation and experimentation..

Jamieson & Smith have been around since the 1930s, when it was founded by the Smith family of Berry Farm in Scalloway, on the east coast of Shetland. In the 60s, they re-located to their current premises overlooking the harbor in Lerwick. Their little cluster of buildings on the North Road includes their wool sheds, a renovated church - which is now their yarn store, and a 1920s police station (complete with two cells) - which forms their carpet store and showroom.

In 2004 the Smith family retired and they merged with Curtis Wool Direct in Yorkshire. Jamieson & Smith remains to be staffed by Shetlanders - there are six of them - and Eva still visits. They remain a stand alone company, in that the profits received from the sale of Real Shetland Wool and Real Shetland Wool products come back into the Shetland economy and are passed along to their top priority, the wool producer.

Every one of their products carry the 3 Sheep Logo, which signals that the product is manufactured from 100 % Real Shetland Wool from pure bred Shetland Sheep that are born and bred on the islands.

Nearly 90 shades of Jamieson & Smith 2ply jumper yarn are available from Purl City Yarns in Manchester. The yarn is ideal for fair isle colourwork using stranding techniques. The yarn is also ideal for patterns that require steeking.

Keywords: knitting, knit, jamieson & smith, jamieson wool, shetland wool, knitting wool, fair isle, colourwork, colorwork, wool shop manchester, 2ply, 4ply, yarn, wool yarn

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