Some photos from Shetland museum etc.. you should be able to expand them for easier reading.
Official sheep colours:
Sheep ear notching patterns for recognising who they belonged to in crofter days (no plastic tags then)
Above: even the flax doesn’t get over 1m tall.
Once a year a devil figure would visit every house and the children would have to give him eggs. He was capable of terrible things if you hadn’t behaved during the year.
Before abseiling was a thing! Crofters would be lowered on ropes to gather eggs.
A crofter
Crofters house construction
Crofters front of house
Sleeping
How a village was designed, with shared areas fairly divided so every family had some good soil and some poorer.
And the world map at Unst showing where visitors had come from this year. I added home! Had a chuckle at the pin way south of NZ 😀
Stories for you - Enjoy! 