With Speakers

HAZEL TINDALL, Knitwear Designer and Tutor & HILARY GRANT, Founder at Hilary Grant, Orkney

Room 9, Islesburgh Community Centre or Online

To reserve your free place please email enquiries@shetlandtextilesnetwork.org

Hazel is a lifelong knitter. She began knitting for income in the 1960s, knitting Fair Isle yokes onto machine knitted bodies, while at school and college. More recently she’s worked as a knitting tutor, written knitting patterns and knits items for sale.

Hilary is the founder of Hilary Grant, a creative design-driven knitwear studio based on the Orkney Islands, first established in 2011 by trained textile designer Hilary. Today the brand is run as a creative and business partnership with Robert Harvey who trained in architecture. The brand initially started out as a home-run business, with all production taking place on a domestic knitting machine by Hilary herself before working with a small number mills in the Scottish Borders from 2012 – present day. The brand has sold internationally in department stores and respected design shops in Japan, Hong Kong the US and EU and has built an international customer base online shop. They have received national press for both design and sustainability credentials, exhibited at London Design Festival and many other international trade shows. In 2021 Hilary and Robert began to set up an Orkney-based knitwear factory, which has been in full operation since August 2023. 80% of their collections are produced in Orkney, the remainder continuing with trusted mills on mainland Scotland.