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in Shetland.

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Shetland yarn and glass from Uyeasound.

Shopping in Shetland is about things made, grown or written in the islands. In Lerwick, the wool brokers on North Road buy most of the islands' clip straight off the crofts and sell it back as the yarn that Fair Isle and lace are knitted from. On Commercial Street, a family bookshop aims to hold every book about Shetland in print, and a narrow gallery shows the islands' painters. Up on Unst, a glass studio at Uyeasound makes pieces in the greens of serpentine and the greys of a haar, and you can watch them being made. Leave room in your case for wool.

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Vaila Fine Art.

A commercial gallery on Commercial Street, showing Shetland painters.

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From our guide9 hours ago

Glansin Glass.

Glansin Glass is a studio on Unst where Cheryl Jamieson makes fused glass in colours taken from the island around her: the greens of serpentine, the greys of a sea fog, the blue of a bright day. The name is an old Unst dialect word meaning bright and shiny. She grew up in the north of the island and now works from a studio at Uyeasound, where you can look into the workshop and see pieces being made. It is a long way north, so pair it with a day exploring Unst.

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Lunch5 hours agoShetland IslandsMareel800 yardsShetland IslandsPeerie Shop Café0.7 milesShetland IslandsThe Dowry0.7 miles

Lunch near Jamieson and Smith.

The three good places closest to it: Mareel, Peerie Shop Café and The Dowry.

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From our guide1 hour ago

The Shetland Bookshop.

The Shetland Bookshop is a family business on Commercial Street, and its Shetland shelves are the reason to come. It aims to stock every book about the islands that is in print, which is a longer list than you might expect: folklore, archaeology, knitting, dialect, wrecks, birds and the Norse. It publishes a good many of those books itself. Ask for something and someone will know where it is, or whether it exists at all. If you want to understand the islands rather than just look at them, start here.

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