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Fair Isle sweater

sweater knitted using the Fair Isle technique to produce complex rows of patterns in multiple colors
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Summary

Fair Isle sweater is known by 6 alternative names across languages and contexts.[1]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: sweater[2]
  • Commons category: Fair Isle sweaters[3]
  • Country of origin: Fair Isle[4]
  • Described by source: A Dictionary of Costume and Fashion: Historic and Modern[5]
  • Fabrication method: Fair Isle[6]
  • Significant person: Edward VIII[7]
  • Date popularized: 1922[8]

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . Art & Architecture Thesaurus. wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . bbc.co.uk. Retrieved . bbc.co.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . bbc.co.uk. Retrieved . bbc.co.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 4d ago · Tengwar · 2026-10-15 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Sitelink count → 1
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    Subclass of → sweater
    Country of origin → Fair Isle
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    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Country of origin: Fair Isle"
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