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Artist Anja Musek in her shop

Artist Anja Musek at the door to her studio in Škofja Loka

Interview with Anja Musek

Wool felting tool

The process of felting a flat surface

Felted scarfs in the Anja Musek's shop

Felted scarfs in the Anja Musek's shop

Creators of handcrafted utilitarian lighting and product design & fabrication. The YB workshop sits quietly nestled within the Cairngorms National Park in the Scottish Highlands . Fusing a background of Sculpture & visual art with design ,…

Creators of handcrafted utilitarian lighting and product design & fabrication.

| Yellow Broom | Lighting , Product Design + Fabrication Creators of bespoke design based utilitarian piece. We are a two person collaboration based within the Cairngorms National Park in the Scottish Highlands . Valuing simplicity and quality…

Wooden hanging light, titled YB18, created by Yellow Broom. Single pendent light hand turned in Sycamore with natural Tan leather and a pastel braided fabric flex. Inspired from a traditional industrial inspection lamp this tactile simple light can…

Wooden hanging light, titled YB18, created by Yellow Broom. Single pendent light hand turned in Sycamore with natural Tan leather and a pastel braided fabric flex. Inspired from a traditional industrial inspection lamp this tactile simple light can…

Woven in the Bone Studio Wool Looms

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

Hand-felted scarf is made with wet felting technique, produced from high-quality black, gray, and white wool, combined to give a sense of colours bleeding into each other. A technique was used to produce delicate, lightweight, and airy texture, which…

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…

Chestnut wood gaxapu with a body that has a semicircular base. The front side features floral and geometric motifs and retains traces of red and blue polychromy. On the back, a handle allows the object to be attached to a belt.

Chestnut wood gaxapu with a body that has a semicircular base. The front side features floral and geometric motifs and retains traces of red and blue polychromy. On the back, a handle allows the object to be attached to a belt.

Chestnut wood gaxapu with a body that has a semicircular base. The front side features floral and geometric motifs and retains traces of red and blue polychromy. On the back, a handle allows the object to be attached to a belt.

Chestnut wood gaxapu with a prismatic body that narrows toward the base. The three front faces are carved with geometric and vegetal motifs, highlighting a central rosette and the initials “M. A.” A handle allows it to be attached to a belt, keeping…

Wooden container with a prismatic shape—semicircular at the base and square at the mouth—used to hold water in which the sharpening stone is kept. A handle on the back allows it to be attached to a belt. The front features geometric motifs with…

Wooden container with a prismatic shape—semicircular at the base and square at the mouth—used to hold water in which the sharpening stone is kept. A handle on the back allows it to be attached to a belt. The front features geometric motifs with…

Wooden gaxapu with a prismatic body and a semicircular base. On the back, a handle allows it to be attached to a belt, holding the sharpening stone for the scythe. On the front, two horseshoes with a nail between them appear at the top, while a large…

Wooden gaxapu with a prismatic body and a semicircular base. On the back, a handle allows it to be attached to a belt, holding the sharpening stone for the scythe. On the front, two horseshoes with a nail between them appear at the top, while a large…

Gaxapu used to keep the sharpening stone in water for the scythe. This wooden container has a prismatic body supported by four small feet. A handle allows it to be attached to a belt, and geometric motifs surround the initials “V. V.” on the front of…

Gaxapu used to keep the sharpening stone in water for the scythe. This wooden container has a prismatic body supported by four small feet. A handle allows it to be attached to a belt, and geometric motifs surround the initials “V. V.” on the front of…

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…

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 Comunidade Intermunicipal Viseu Dão Lafões is an administrative division in Portugal. It replaced the previously existing Greater Metropolitan Area of Viseu. Since January 2015, Viseu Dão Lafões is also a NUTS3 subregion of Centro Region, that…

Viljandi County is one of 15 counties of Estonia. It is located in southern Estonia bordering Pärnu, Järva, Jõgeva, Tartu and Valga counties as well as Latvia.

Värmland County is a county or län in west central Sweden. It borders the Swedish counties of Dalarna, Örebro and Västra Götaland, as well as the Norwegian counties of Østfold, Akershus and Innlandet to the west. Prince Carl Philip is Duke of…

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Upper Carniola is a traditional region of Slovenia, the northern mountainous part of the larger Carniola region. The largest town in the region is Kranj, and other urban centers include Kamnik, Jesenice, Domžale and Škofja Loka. It has around 300,000…

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…

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 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,…

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…

Turned wooden mushroom figure 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.

Making Process: Handspun linen yarn with drop spindle/spinnrock

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…

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Glazed pottery painted with vegetal motifs, especially on the front area. This is combined with two butterflies in a blend of green and blue. The decoration also extends to the top, around the mouth of the piece, and around the base, with blue lines…

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A cheese vat is used in the initial stage of the cheese-making process, and the holes in the surface are made to allow the whey to escape through them. Also, this kind of pottery is known as 'black pottery,' which is due to the smoke used during the…

Târgu Lăpuș is a town in Maramureș County, northern Transylvania, Romania. It administers thirteen villages: Boiereni (Boérfalva), Borcut (Borkút), Cufoaia (Kohópatak), Dămăcușeni (Domokos), Dobricu Lăpușului (Láposdebrek), Dumbrava (Kisdebrecen),…

Sue Blair is a ceramics maker, creating pottery on the Isle of Lewis.

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 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.