fair isle knit

iStock lists 3,778 illustrations for “fair isle knit” as of 2026-09-02. The other tracked catalogues read 1,578 on Adobe Stock and 1 on Shutterstock. That is a 3778× spread between the largest and smallest, so this phrase is stocked far more heavily on iStock than across the marketplaces evenly. For scale, that is a smaller catalogue than the middle half of the 4,009 phrases with a supply reading, which sit between 11,000 and 420,000.

In the week of 2026-08-23, Google Trends put “fair isle knit” at 8% of its own 12-month peak — near its yearly low. That index is rescaled per phrase, so every tracked phrase reaches 100 at its own busiest week; it says where this phrase sits in its own year, not how its search volume compares with another phrase's.

Sellers who publish for this phrase also tag their files “fair isle knitting”, “fair isle knitting patterns”, “fair isle knitwear”, “fair isle knitting books”, “fair isle knitting holidays”, “fair isle knit sweater”, and 34 more — harvested from the live listings rather than suggested, so they describe how the subject is actually being framed for buyers. The phrase sits in the patterns category.