Artisan An artisan Contact nettysopata@gmail.com Author iain Email The email address of the museum. nettysopata@gmail.com Phone The phone number 07881 273 966 Biographical Text Netty moved to the Isle of Lewis in 2006 to take up a Kiltmaking Apprenticeship. After two years she started her own business and explored using locally woven Harris Tweed in her designs. This led to a number of commissions and displays including at Norton and Son’s, Saville Row and through this contemporary kilt production for fashion designer Christopher Kane. After fifteen years of working o na self-employed basis Netty strated to teach Fashion Design at the local height education college on a part-time basis. Since then she has continued her kiltmaking and garment design business but on a reduced scale, whilst also fulfilling the role as a board member with Applied Arts Scotland, project managing national and international craft focused projects and recently, becoming editor of community newsaper – Fios. An area Netty has developed over the past twenty years is usung the wool form her families flock of Hebridean Sheep to be washed, cardded and spun in to weaving yarn at Uist Wool. This yarn has then been woven in Harris Tweed by a local weaver . External ID AAS_PR_06 Knowledge Acquisition Served a traditonal apprenticeship and then adapted the skills to develop Harris Tweed kilts. Harris Tweed is heavier then the tradiitonal tartan cloth used to make kilts. Knowledge Transfer Yes through evening classes at the lcoal arts centre. Field Worker Netty Sopata Gender female Area Relation incomer Area Reason Moved in 2006 to commence a Kiltmaking Apprenticeship in Stornoway Occupation fibre and textile crafts knowledge1 Tradtional hand tailoring techniques applied to kilt making: Measurement, pleat calculations and chalking out, hand sewing and steam pressing. material1 Harris Tweed. Leather (for straps) and brass / other metals for buckles. material2 Local Harris Tweed mills. material3 Donates them to local higher education college production1 Calking out (to mark the pleats and kilt pattern); Hand sewing (using a thimble); Steam pressing (to set the pleats) production2 Thimble, measuring tape (inches), pattern master (straight edge ruleer to mark out the pleats). Steam Iron and pressing table. Needle and scissors. production3 Tape and thimble belonged to her grandmother who was a hoe based seamstress in London. production4 Electricity for lighting and steam press. Peat for heating stove in studio. production5 Cut-away' segemnts of cloth are donated to the local college fro students to use in mood boards etc. workshop Yes. The upstairs area of her domestic house is a dedicated studio space. products1 Handtailored Kilts and contemproray garments products2 For people to wear products3 The kiltmaking service is no longer advertised and commissions are completed on a word of mouth basis only. products4 Bespoke one to one orders. products5 For kilts only yes products6 Locally based cliets fro repairs and alterations. Visitors to the Hebrides who have a connection to the location and/or want to have something created fro them that resonates with the location. products7 Harris Tweed label tourism1 Netty used to display work and take orders at the local music festival: HebCelt. This four day festival attracts the perfect target market for bepoke kilts. The tourists at this event are from a range of national and international locations. tourism2 An interview was not conducted. partnership Applied Arts Scotland. challenges1 Outwith the HebCelt festival, accessing physical events to display and take orders at was not cost efficient sdue to being located on an island. challenges2 An interview was not conducted. Social Media The social media links. instagram,Diggory Brown ; Wiki A link to a wiki entry about this item. https://culturality.museum/wiki/index.php/Annette_Sopata Prim Media 2306 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Annette Sopata Type The nature or genre of the resource Artisan Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 47 Language A language of the resource English Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource iain Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 802 Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. current,58,6; Europeana Specific elements of the Europeana Semantic Elements. Europeana Type The Europeana material type of the resource. TEXT Country The name of the country of the data provider or “Europe” in the case of Europe-wide projects. Scotland Europeana Data Provider The name or identifier of the organisation that contributes data to Europeana. Annette Sopata