Visit Feltsket on the Shetland Craft Trail

Feltsket is a unique product of Shetland. We combine our own hand made felt with recycled Fair Isle knitting to produce a charming, colourful keepsake, a peerie bit o’ Shetland.

The name ‘Feltsket’ is suggested by the lovely Shetland dialect word filsket which might be used to describe the play of Shetland lambs, or calves in the spring sunshine: they are vigorous, full of fun, mischievous!

The Feltsket range is entirely handmade in Shetland by Vivienne and Lizzie Ratter. The wool used in our felt is 100% Shetland, felted on the kitchen table, to produce a fabric at once luxuriously soft, and strong.

All our pieces are backed with recycled Fair Isle pattern knitting. So you have twice the fun! Our   embroidery and other finishing touches reflect the fabulous variety of hue and tone found in Shetland knitting wool, the very same wool or wirset used in Shetland’s world famous product.