Museum: University of St Andrews
Dublin Core
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Museum: University of St Andrews
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Collection Items
Hand Knitted ‘Gansey Style’ Woollen Blanket
This beautifully hand-knitted blanket reflects the distinctive symbolic patterns of traditional fishermen’s jumpers or ganseys. Each distinct hand-knitted square depicts patterns from a particular port or harbour along the Moray Firth region, from…
October 2024 Partner Meeting - Stornoway
All the Culturality partners met up in the Isle of Lewis to share their updates, next steps in the work packages, and participate in a workshop about project deliverables.
Scotch Whisky
The history, tradition, and process of making Scotch whisky. Peat is sometimes used to enhance the flavour and give it a smoky taste.
Wet felting
Wet felting is a traditional fiber art technique that transforms wool or other natural fibers into a dense, durable fabric by using moisture, heat, and agitation. The process involves layering raw wool, sprinkling it with warm, soapy water, and then…
Weaving
.Săpânța is not a common village, precisely because it holds on its territory a rare treasure, hard to value in money or words – CIMITIRUL VESEL (THE MERRY CEMETERY). The Merry Cemetery of Săpânța – globally unique and world value monument, where…
Faro's pottery
There are two types of pottery: black pottery, obtained by reducing iron-rich clay, which has been documented since the 11th century in various closed forms (puchero, barbón, penada, cider jug...), and glazed and enamelled pottery, which appears from…
Jet culture
The presence of high-quality jet deposits in Asturias enabled, since ancient times, its mining and artisanal use, giving rise to a culture centered around the properties of this unique mineral. Its believed protective nature generated strong demand…
Jet culture
The presence of high-quality jet deposits in Asturias enabled, since ancient times, its mining and artisanal use, giving rise to a culture centered around the properties of this unique mineral. Its believed protective nature generated strong demand…
Wool fiber processing
The know-how about curating, harvesting and selecting the best parts of the sheep wool and different uses according to its natural properties: socks, sweaters, woven fabrics and felted wools. Different breeds will shed different wool textures.…
Entrelac
Entrelac is a knitting technique that is strongly reminicent of woven/braided birch back, which is traditionally made and used in the area. See RV_CP_01(01)
Felting
Felting is a technique of joining fibers together. It can be done dry or wet, and Carina Haglund uses wet felting. In Swedish there are two different words usually used for felting: “tovning” which is most used, or “filtning”. “Tovning” can also be…
Handweaving
Henner handweaves using a loom or a heddle. A loom can be of different sizes, ranging from smaller ones on a table and larger ones that fill smaller rooms. Henner's loom is a hand weaving looom, where she dones all the preperations and weaving…