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Textile artisan Ragnhild Lie discovered that most of the wool from the area was being sent out of the country while people were knitting with…

Pre-industrial glazed pottery painted with blue motifs that contrast with the white background of the piece. The decoration features lines of varying…

A clay jar like this was commonly used in traditional cider-drinking culture. The pottery workshop in Faro was one of the most renowned places for…

Glazed pottery used as part of household ware. Made of pink clay, the interior is coated with a white glaze and decorated with a triskelion motif.

The large number of pots found in the Asturian region highlights the importance of “pucheros” and legumes in Asturian gastronomy. This particular…

A clay jug used to transport water, with two handles and vertical decorative motifs on the body of the piece. These lines are carved, and this is the…

Universidad de Oviedo

The University of Oviedo (Spanish: Universidad de Oviedo, Asturian: Universidá d'Uviéu) is a public university in Asturias (Spain). It is the only…

Politecnico di Torino

The Polytechnic University of Turin (Italian: Politecnico di Torino, abbreviated as PoliTO) is the oldest Italian public technical university. The…

University of St Andrews

The University of St Andrews is a world class center for excellence in teaching and research. Open Virtual Worlds is an interdisciplinary group of…

Scientific Research Centre of Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts

The Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (ZRC SAZU) is the leading research institute in Slovenia for the humanities, social…

Universidade de Aveiro

The University of Aveiro (Portuguese: Universidade de Aveiro) is a public university, in addition to providing polytechnic education, located in the…

Museum Nord

Museum Nord is a Norwegian museum consortium for the northern part of Nordland county, including the districts of Lofoten, Vesterålen, and Ofoten. The…

Region Värmland

Region Värmland has arranged and facilitated regional and international events to develop technological innovations, based upon virtual reality for…

Espacio Tormaleo S.L.

Desde agosto del 2021, Espacio Tormaleo S.L. está intentando llevar a cabo un proyecto de regeneración para el entorno de la mina a cielo abierto de…

La Ponte-Ecomuséu

La Ponte is an ecomuseum and research space on diverse topics such as history, archaeology, cultural and heritage studies that was promoted by people…

University of Tartu

The University of Tartu (UT; Estonian: Tartu Ülikool; Latin: Universitas Tartuensis) is a public research university located in the city of Tartu,…

Applied Arts Scotland

Applied Arts Scotland is a membership organisation run ‘by makers for makers‘ in Scotland. We nurture the creative heart and soul of making practice,…

Consiliul Judeţean Maramureş

Maramureș is a unique location in the geographical heartland of Europe, land of wooden churches, mythological richness, impressive landscapes,…

LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial (Art and Industrial Creation Centre) is an exhibition centre in Gijón, Spain, for art, science,…

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…

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…

Strata Curved Bottle

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

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

The Design Circle nourishes and spreads the culture of design, helping to strengthen the local design system and promoting connections between design…

The Public Institute Ribnica Handicraft Centre brings together three well-established organizations – the Museum of Ribnica, the Miklova Hiša Gallery…

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…

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…

The County Centre for Conservation and Promotion of the Traditional Culture Dolj is a public cultural institution with legal personality, subordinated…

Wool Yarn Skein / härva av ullgarn

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

The necklace is woven out of 100% linen yarn in both warp and weft. The blue tones are a blend of newly produced Swedish yarn and leftover yarn form…

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…

This beautifully hand-knitted blanket reflects the distinctive symbolic patterns of traditional fishermen’s jumpers or ganseys. Each distinct…

Helmsdale Gansey

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…

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

Woven in the Bone Studio Wool Looms

Woven in the Bone Studio Wool Looms

Woven in the Bone Studio Tour

A Tour of the Woven in the Bone Studio.

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

The exhibition contains pieces of traditional textile heritage in Europe, provided by members of the international consortium of the CULTURALITY…

Folktro och folkmedicin. Örtpedagogik och kulturarv.

Snowscape Vessel

Snowscape Vessel, a white porcelain ceramic vessel with porcelain inlay details in black and blue, with a matte black inside. Created by Clair…

Creators & Keepers: Women Weaving Europe Collection

In CULTURALITY we understand crafts as an indispensable identity element capable of characterising and highlighting a territory through its…

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

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…

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…

The Poljanska Valley spreads along the Poljanska Sora River in the southeast of the Gorenjska region. It is surrounded by the Polhograjski,…

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

Cvetke Žiri Lacemaking Society

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…

Doily

Lace doily. (C) DUO Škofja Loka.

Clay Creamer

Ceramic clay creamer from Asturias, Spain.

Turned Wooden Mushroom

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.

Clay creamer from Asturias, Spain.

Hattersley Mechanical Loom

Hattersley & Sons domestic mechanical loom, used by Sam Groates at Woven in the Bone for the production of tweed fabric. The Hattersley loom was…

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…