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knitting in 1955 after discovering a jersey in a Copenhagen shop. Despite being a poor student and unable to purchase it, she bought a knitting pattern and recreated the style herself. For her book
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in the mid-1970s, motivated by her concern over changes to Scottish traditions caused by the oil industry. She travelled to the
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and other remote places in Scotland to visit knitters, and studied pieces of historic
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Influences on Fair Isle knitwear design in the 1940s and 1950s
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