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The University of Oviedo (Spanish: Universidad de Oviedo, Asturian: Universidá d'Uviéu) is a public university in Asturias (Spain). It is the only university in the region. It has three campus and research centres, located in Oviedo, Gijón and…

The Polytechnic University of Turin (Italian: Politecnico di Torino, abbreviated as PoliTO) is the oldest Italian public technical university. The university offers several courses in the fields of Engineering, Architecture, Urban Planning and…

The University of St Andrews is a world class center for excellence in teaching and research. Open Virtual Worlds is an interdisciplinary group of researchers bringing together expertise in computing, digital design, history and museology. The…

The Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (ZRC SAZU) is the leading research institute in Slovenia for the humanities, social sciences, and selected disciplines of the natural sciences. It comprises eighteen institutes where…

The University of Aveiro (Portuguese: Universidade de Aveiro) is a public university, in addition to providing polytechnic education, located in the Portuguese city of Aveiro. Founded in 1973, it has a student population of approximately 12,500,…

Museum Nord is a Norwegian museum consortium for the northern part of Nordland county, including the districts of Lofoten, Vesterålen, and Ofoten. The museum is set up as a foundation and was established on December 13, 2002. It opened in 2004 and it…

Region Värmland has arranged and facilitated regional and international events to develop technological innovations, based upon virtual reality for example and other hybrid forms of storytelling. Our experience and expertise is an asset for the…

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 Tormaleo (Ibias) a través del desarrollo de actividades culturales y la potenciación del turismo…

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

The University of Tartu (UT; Estonian: Tartu Ülikool; Latin: Universitas Tartuensis) is a public research university located in the city of Tartu, Estonia. It is the national university of Estonia.[2] It is the largest and oldest university in the…

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

Maramureș is a unique location in the geographical heartland of Europe, land of wooden churches, mythological richness, impressive landscapes, carefully preserving the culture, traditions, and lifestyle of immemorial peasant past. With more than…

LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial (Art and Industrial Creation Centre) is an exhibition centre in Gijón, Spain, for art, science, technology and advanced visual industries. It is also a venue for artistic and technological production,…

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 hand made white porcelain bottle decorated with inlaid coloured porcelain in blue, grey and orange. Making Process: A series of thin slabs of porcelain are rolled out and decorated with bands of coloured porcelain that is inlaid into the top…

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

A 2-ply skein of yarn, S-twist. Making Process: Handspun yarn using spinning-wheel. The wool used are from Carl-Joahns own sheep, which are of an older local breed of sheep “Värmalndsfår”. These particular sheep produce a varying wool spanning for…

Making Process: Handspun linen yarn with drop spindle/spinnrock

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 the local handweaving association. Process: Handwoven with the usage of the technique “pulled…

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.

A hand made white porcelain vessel decorated with inlaid coloured porcelain tree motifs in black and blue, with matt black glaze on the inside. Making Process: A thin slab of porcelain is rolled out and decorated with coloured porcelain that is…

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…

Marlén, biodigital architect and Manuel, biodigital designer and craftsman, make up the Laboratorio Biomimético, a project based on biomimesis, that is, on the attentive observation of nature, directly through field trips, or indirectly, with…

Paz Mesa had her first contact with textile crafts through her mother, who taught her how to spin the wool of her own flock of Xalda sheep; a task that she carried out together with her sisters. They later would give the wool already spun to a cousin…

Helena Cardoso is a Portuguese designer and visual artist. Cardoso has worked since the late ‘70s, with several artisans specialising in different handmade techniques and materials in northern Portugal, especially traditional Portuguese crafts.…

The weaver draws inspiration from the landscape and rich culture of Scotland. As Sam stated: “I follow a well trodden path that continues to draw connections between the diverse Scottish landscape and the cloth that I make”. Weaving woollen cloth…

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 foreign-produced yarn. This led her to reclaim the wool and cultural heritage in the craft. With a…

Inspired by a discussion with a UC Berkeley engineer on privacy and human rights at the Fashion Institute of Technology, Rachele Didero developed the idea of combining crafting in fashion and computer science. Subsequently, Rachele met Federica…