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The museum has a ‘Feis Room’ as a learning and performing art space for Gaelic culture including music, drama, art and storytelling. There’s also an open-access archive containing maps, documents and photographs telling South Uist’s story. This…

I’m an artist and maker based in Forfar, Scotland. Since graduating from Grays School of Art in Aberdeen, I’ve developed my practice from tile making to creating forms and vessels with porcelain and paper clay. All of my work is hand built using…

A hand made white porcelain vase decorated with inlaid coloured porcelain in blue, grey and orange. Created by Carol Sinclair of Carol Sinclair Ceramics, Forfar Scotland.

Estonian Folk Art and Craft Union is a non-profit organisation that brings together regional folk art and craft organisations as well as individual craftsmen and craftswomen.

The Design Circle nourishes and spreads the culture of design, helping to strengthen the local design system and promoting connections between design skills and the productive, social and cultural world.

The Public Institute Ribnica Handicraft Centre brings together three well-established organizations – the Museum of Ribnica, the Miklova Hiša Gallery and the Museum Shop – as well as a new area, which was likewise developed from the long-standing…

Pampilhosa da Serra is a town and a municipality in the Coimbra District, in Portugal. The population in 2011 was 4,481, in an area of 396.46 km².

The Museu del Disseny de Barcelona (Catalan, English: "Barcelona Design Museum"), is a center for Barcelona's Institute of Culture, which works to promote better understanding and good use of the design world, acting as a museum and laboratory. It…

The West Highland Museum was founded in 1922 by a group of Lochaber folk who wished to create a museum for the West Highlands, second to none in Scotland.

The County Centre for Conservation and Promotion of the Traditional Culture Dolj is a public cultural institution with legal personality, subordinated to Dolj County Council, specialized in researching, collecting, archiving, transmitting and…

A 3D model of a skein of wool, or härva av ullgarn in Swedish.

Region: Arvika, Värmland, Sweden

Timespan is a cultural organisation in Helmsdale, a village in the very north east of the Scottish Highlands, with local, global and planetary ambitions to weaponise culture for social change. Timespan is a place for art, research, heritage, local…

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…

Images of the blacket.

Carol Sinclair is an artist and maker living and working in Forfar, Scotland. She creates one-off ceramics and up-cycled material installations for exhibitions. Her inspiration comes from the global issues, colours, textures and shapes in the world.…

Artisan cloth made in Scotland. Bespoke lengths and limited edition production of handcrafted Saxony cloth for tailors, designers and small businesses.

Woven in the Bone Studio Wool Looms

The kick-off meeting for the Culturality project, bringing together all the partners to discuss the project and the activities taking place in the next four years.

The exhibition contains pieces of traditional textile heritage in Europe, provided by members of the international consortium of the CULTURALITY European project. It is held as part of the introductory kick-off meeting.

Folktro och folkmedicin. Örtpedagogik och kulturarv.

Snowscape Vessel, a white porcelain ceramic vessel with porcelain inlay details in black and blue, with a matte black inside. Created by Clair Sinclair of Clair Sinclair Ceramics, Forfar Scotland.

The Inner Hebrides is an archipelago off the west coast of mainland Scotland, to the south east of the Outer Hebrides. Together these two island chains form the Hebrides, which experience a mild oceanic climate.

In CULTURALITY we understand crafts as an indispensable identity element capable of characterising and highlighting a territory through its traditional culture and its links to the community that inhabits it. Crafts are inevitably linked to the…

Exhibition Curator: Llara Fuente Corripio Assistant curator: Yulia Ruzanova Exhibition setup: Llara Fuente Corripio, Yulia Ruzanova and Enrique Melendez Galan

The doily is one of the handmade lace products made by crossing, twisting, and weaving linen threads attached to a bobbin. The process follows a pattern – a drawing on paper attached to a cylinder cushion in a wicker basket or on a wooden base. In…

The Cvetke Žiri Lacemaking Society was founded in April 2004. It has more than 100 members from Žiri, its surroundings, and other regions. It focuses on education, organization of exhibitions, and promotion of bobbin lace. The Society is the main…

The Poljanska Valley spreads along the Poljanska Sora River in the southeast of the Gorenjska region. It is surrounded by the Polhograjski, Škofjeloški, Cerkljanski and Rovtarski mountains. It has around 12.500 inhabitants who live in Gorenja vas,…

Žiri. Photo by Matjaž Tavčar. © Turizem Škofja Loka.

A group photo of the Cvetke Žiri Lacemaking Society. The Society is registered as the bearer of the Slovene lacemaking tradition in the national and UNESCO lists of intangible cultural heritage. © Cvetke Žiri.

Lace doily. (C) DUO Škofja Loka.

Ceramic clay creamer from Asturias, Spain.

Wooden mushroom made out of turned wood, then electrified to create the lightning-like details. Made by a local artisan in Asturias, Spain.

Turned wooden mushroom figure from Asturias, Spain.

Hattersley & Sons domestic mechanical loom, used by Sam Groates at Woven in the Bone for the productino of tweed fabric. The Hattersley loom was developed by George Hattersley and Sons of Keighley, West Yorkshire, England. The plain Hattersley…

Clay creamer from Asturias, Spain.

Hattersley & Sons domestic mechanical loom, used by Sam Groates at Woven in the Bone for the production of tweed fabric. The Hattersley loom was developed by George Hattersley and Sons of Keighley, West Yorkshire, England. The plain Hattersley…

A research fellow in the School of Computer Science, University of St Andrews

Publisher: Routledge, Taylor & Francis

I am the Community Outreach Officer for the West Highland Museum

University of St Andrews Open Virtual Worlds research group

PhD researcher evaluating how digital tools can help look at cultural landscapes holistically in order to better inform practices related to heritage preservation in the face of climate change threats. I am doing this by looking at how climate change…