Fair Isle

a traditional Shetland Islands knitting design, used especially for sweaters, that incorporates bands of repeated multicolored geometric motifs

a technique of knitting designs with two or more colours in which any colours not actually being knitted are woven into the back of the work

southernmost of the Shetland Islands, off the northern coast of Scotland. It is situated approximately midway between the main Shetland Islands and the Orkney Islands.