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The history, tradition, and process of making Scotch whisky. Peat is sometimes used to enhance the flavour and give it a smoky taste.
Borgh PotteryBorgh Pottery is a working studio overlooking the Atlantic ocean on the Isle of Lewis. For five decades Sue Blair has made unique ceramics…
Sue Blair is a ceramics maker, creating pottery on the Isle of Lewis.
Outer Hebrides Geographical AreaDigital technology and culture researcher
Rural Spot Talk 4The Culturality project and RuralSpot is introduced and then Lorna Macaulay, from Harris Tweed Authority talks about the Harris Tweed industry as it…
Wooden hanging light, titled YB18, created by Yellow Broom. Single pendent light hand turned in Sycamore with natural Tan leather and a pastel braided…
Borgh Pottery plate, created by Sue Blair.
Ceramic lamp base with Harris Tweed shade, created by ceramicist Sue Blair of Borgh Pottery, Isle of Lewis, Scotland.
'Of Paint and Clay' white ceramic vase by Sue Blair of Borgh Pottery. Part of the 2024 exhibition "Of Paint and Clay", with pieces from Sue Blair and…
The Calanais Standing Stones are an extraordinary cross-shaped setting of stones erected 5,000 years ago. They predate England’s famous Stonehenge…
Standing Stones from Calanais Stone Cricle 1
Standing Stones from Calanais Stone Cricle 1
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A RuralSpot in Scotland was held at Clan MacQuarrie Community Centre. Makers and stakeholders were invited to participate in discussions with the…
All the Culturality partners met up in the Isle of Lewis to share their updates, next steps in the work packages, and participate in a workshop about…
Lofoten, Lufoahtta (Lule Sami), or Lufuohttá (Northern Sami) is an archipelago and a traditional district in the county of Nordland, Norway. Lofoten…
Asturias officially the Principality of Asturias, is an autonomous community in northwest Spain. It is coextensive with the province of Asturias…
Black Logo| Yellow Broom | Lighting , Product Design + Fabrication Creators of bespoke design based utilitarian piece. We are a two person collaboration based…
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…
UTcraftsperson1A portrait of UTcraftsperson1
Agnieszka Golda, Jo Law, and Martin Johnson, “Twilight State and the Edges of Darkness”, (2016)
Rural areas, women, and textile crafts. “A woman weaving a blanket” by Paul Kane (ca. 1850)
The textile industry and its pollution since the Industrial Revolution. Barbour’s flax thread works
Textiles and women in non-european cultures. “The Making of Silk Fabric” by Wang Juzheng (Northern Song Dynasty, 960–1127)
Women and children working at large cotton manufacturing machines
In both historical visual documents and mythology, we can observe how this knowledge was passed down from mothers to daughters, also in the upper classes, who reserved certain tasks like embroidery for the maids while engaging in other activities like wool carding. Illustration of women of different ages performing household task (cooking and spinning and carding wool) from The costume of Yorkshire (1814)
The textile linked toand a tool: woman spinning“Spinning wheel”women as both an attribute and seducing a man. by Adolphe Weisz (ca. 1850)
Woman spinning during October calendar on a Psalter of Eleanor of Aquitaine (ca. 1185)
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Workshop of Monika Hint Viljandi county
Monika Hint
Viljandi county, Estonia
House and workshop of Dominica Stan and Stan Maria, Vima Mare village
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Dominica Stan with her grandsons
Țara Lăpușului, Vima Mare village, Maramures, Romania
Workshop of Cvetke Žiri Lacemaking Society, Upper Carniola
Cvetke Žiri Lacemaking Society
Upper Carniola, Municipality of Žiri, Slovenia
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Workshop of Cap_able
Rachele Didero and Federica Busani, Cap_able
Treviso, Veneto, Italy
Franciacorta, Brescia, Italy
Workshop of Lofoten wool, Lofoten
Ragnhild Lie, Lofoten wool
Lofoten, Noruega
Workshop of Therese Henner, Arvika
Therese Henner
Brunskog,Sweden, Arvika
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Workshop of Sam Goates, Moray
Sam Goates, Woven in the Bone
Moray, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Timespan Knitting Group
Helmsdale, East Sutherland, Highlands of Scotland, United Kingdom
Workshop of Timespan Knitting Group, Helmsdale
Workshop of the artisans from Casa da Lã group in Cabeceiras de Basto
Artisans of Casa da Lã group
Helena Cardoso
Cabeceiras de Basto, Bucos, Portugal
Workshop of the Laboratorio Biomimético, Sobrescobio
Workshop of made by kÖs, Pillarmo
Laboratorio Biomimético-ARBIO, Marlén López and Manuel Persa
made by kÖs, Constantino Menéndez and Yolanda González
Sobrescobio, Asturias, Spain
Pillarmo, Asturias, Spain
Workshop of Paz Mesa in Les Regueres
Paz Mesa
Les Regueres, Asturias, SpainMonika Hint, an student of the University of Tartu Viljandi Culture Academy, runs her own studio, Koordikamber, in Koordi farm in Viljandi county.…
A pouch made of a ram’s scrotum