Download or read book Shetland Oo written by Kate Davies and published by Mitchell Beazley. This book was released on 2016 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Wool - or in Shetlandic, Oo - has for centuries figured centrally in island life. Hardy, colourful, characterful sheep have adapted over millennia to a challenging climate, and Shetlanders have always put their fine fleeces to good use, in beautiful, distinctive textiles ranging from woven tweeds to Fairisle handknits. From croft to creative enterprise, wool remains at the heart of many island industries today, and this collaborative documentary project reveals the many different kinds of work that oo supports. In these pages you'll meet the fascinating graders, breeders, tanners, artists, designers, knitters, weavers, hand spinners, knitwear manufacturers and retailers, who, in so many different ways, have made their lives in oo. Photographed by Tom Barr, and with accompanying essays and profiles written by Kate Davies, this book is produced in celebration of the vital contemporary work of Shetland wool."--Publisher description.
Download or read book The Lace Knitting Palette written by Catherine Thomson and published by Leisure Arts. This book was released on 2011 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Knit a world of luxury with these patterns for lacy garments and accessories. Thomson includes helpful tips, special techniques, and optional trim ideas.
Download or read book Old lore Miscellany of Orkney Shetland Caithness and Sutherland written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Orkney and Shetland Miscellany of the Viking Club written by and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bombarded Britain written by Richard Stratford and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2004-07-26 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes a search for geological evidence of meteorite impact structures in Britain. The statistics of impact structures indicate that Britain should have Phanerozoic impact structures up to tens of kilometres in diameter. A constant theme is the importance of atmospheric break-up of small asteroids and comets. These fragmenting bodies produce anomalously shallow craters with low rims and central peaks; three British structures of this type are identified. Analysis of fireball statistics implies that damaging fireball explosions occur over the British Isles on a time-scale of decades. On a time-scale of millennia, however, more damage is done by Atlantic impact tsunami. Contents: Impacts and Geology:A Curious OmissionOf Calculations and CratersThe Search for Impact StructuresThe Shetland CratersMidlands GeologyThe Ashby InlierCharnwood ForestThe Midlands Basin — A Cometary Impact Structure?The Herefordshire DomesThe Rochford Basin — A Digression into EssexFuller's Earth and Bagshot Sands — A Surrey Crater?Gabbro, Granite, and GrampiansOther Circular StructuresImpacts in History:Small Craters, Airbursts, and TsunamiDozmary Pool and Other CraterletsLevin–Bolt and BlastBritish Atlantis? Readership: Upper level undergraduates and post-graduate students in geology and planetary science. Keywords:Meteorite Craters;Terrestrial Impact Structures;Atmospheric Break-Up;British Geology;St Magnus Bay;Midlands Impact Structure;Woolhope Dome;Scottish Younger Gabbros;Dozmary Pool;AirburstsReviews:“In his search for bombarded Britain, the author delivers a master class in impact and air blast processes … I believe that Bombarded Britain is going to make an impact.”Astronomy Now
Download or read book The Shetland Dictionary written by John J. Graham and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This revised edition of The Shetland Dictionary is designed to aid readers in understanding and expanding their knowledge of Shetland. It includes over 150 additional words and is intended as a consistent source of reference.
Download or read book The NE Atlantic Region written by G. Péron-Pinvidic and published by Geological Society of London. This book was released on 2017-10-30 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The NAG-TEC project was a collaborative effort by the British Geological Survey, the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, the Geological Survey of Ireland, the Geological Survey of the Netherlands, the Geological Survey of Northern Ireland, the Geological Survey of Norway, Iceland GeoSurvey and the Faroese Geological Survey (Jarðfeingi), along with a number of academic partners and significant support from industry. The main focus was to investigate the tectonic evolution of the region with a particular emphasis on basin evolution along conjugate margins. A key outcome was the development of a new tectonostratigraphic atlas and database that includes comprehensive geological and geophysical information relevant for understanding the Devonian to present evolution of the NE Atlantic margins. These provide the foundation upon which ongoing research and exploration of the area can build. This Special Publication provides some of the first scientific results and analysis based on the project, including regional stratigraphic analysis and correlations, crustal structure and interpretation of geophysical data sets, plate kinematics and the evolution of igneous provinces.
Download or read book Scottish Naturalist and Journal of the Perthshire Society of Natural Science written by Francis Buchanan White White and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Orkney and Shetland Miscellany written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Disseminating Dress written by Serena Dyer and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-05-19 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fashion travels. Every new shape of sleeve, each novel method of cutting and any innovation in fabric has spread through complex networks of makers, retailers and consumers. Disseminating Dress represents the first historical study of how these networks of fashion communication functioned and evolved in an increasingly global material world. Focussing on Britain – separated from mainland Europe, yet increasingly globally-linked – this volume will trace how dress was disseminated in and out of one island nation. The paths made by print, image and commodities around the globe have enabled historians to reimagine a connected material world. The influence of innovations in dissemination shape this volume, which asks urgent questions about the extent of global influence on fashion, and the intertwining nature of written, printed, visual and material fashion news. This collection brings together innovative scholarship from an interdisciplinary group of historians, art historians and fashion scholars to consider how global and local networks of dress dissemination converged to shape fashionable dress in Britain, and how British methods and aesthetics spread outwards across the world. From the drawing rooms of 19th-century London, to the verandas of 19th-century Australia, contributors to Disseminating Dress develop narratives of commodity and knowledge exchange to consider how fashion circulated.
Download or read book Tidal Harmonic Constants written by U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book This Golden Fleece written by Esther Rutter and published by Granta Books. This book was released on 2020-03-09 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A book about wool and sheep, the making of Scotland, England and farming, textile manufacture, folklore and, crucially, the essential craft of knitting.” —Janice Galloway, author of Jellyfish Over the course of a year, Esther Rutter—who grew up on a sheep farm in Suffolk, and learned to spin, weave and knit as a child—travels the length of the British Isles, to tell the story of wool’s long history here. She unearths fascinating histories of communities whose lives were shaped by wool, from the mill workers of the Border countries, to the English market towns built on profits of the wool trade, and the Highland communities cleared for sheep farming; and finds tradition and innovation intermingling in today’s knitwear industries. Along the way, she explores wool’s rich culture by knitting and crafting culturally significant garments from our history—among them gloves, a scarf, a baby blanket, socks and a fisherman’s jumper—reminding us of the value of craft and our intimate relationship with wool. This Golden Fleece is at once a meditation on the craft and history of knitting, and a fascinating exploration of wool’s influence on our landscape, history and culture. “Wondrous.” —BBC Countryfile “A yarn well told.” —The Irish Times “A compelling literary journey through the social history of wool in the British Isles.” —Karen Lloyd, author of The Gathering Tide “[Rutter’s] stops on her journey around Britain also knit together the past and the present, the social, historical and the personal, in an altogether engaging way.” —Books from Scotland
Download or read book OECD Regions and Cities at a Glance 2018 written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2018-10-09 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report looks at how regions and cities across the OECD are progressing towards stronger economies, higher quality of life for their citizens and more inclusive societies. This edition presents regional and metropolitan updates for more than 40 indicators to assess disparities...
Download or read book Stuart of Dunleath written by Caroline Sheridan Norton and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Stuart of Dunleath written by Norton and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Navigational Restrictions within the New LOS Context written by Alexander M. Lewis and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-12-15 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Navigational Restrictions within the New LOS Context, J. Ashley Roach faithfully edits and presents the like-titled report prepared by Dr. Lewis M. Alexander for the U.S. Department of Defense in 1986.
Download or read book Fair Isle Knitting written by Sarah Don and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-11-07 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Don starts with clear samples and charts for 28 traditional Fair Isle knit designs and then moves on to simple instructions for 13 authentic garments, including jumpers, pullovers, and scarves.
