Crafts development in the Highlands and Islands

The Highlands and Islands of Scotland have provided a natural home for craft for many years inspiring makers through the beauty of the environment, the rich mythology and the wealth of natural materials. Read more...

Work by Monika Lamackova and Lynne Pryde

HI-Arts Crafternoons
Find out more and book your place on one of our networking events.

Makers of the Month
This March we talk to Netty Sopata and Corinna Krause who are based on the Western Isles.

Online Textiles Gallery
We feature work by makers from throughout the Highlands and Islands.

Craft Festival Scotland
Find out more about this Scotland-wide festival taking place in May-June 2010 and about the Highlands and Islands events HERE

Textiles by Netty Sopata (Maker of the Month)

Makers Awards Find out more about this funding scheme and how to apply Making Applications and Proposals Read more about the workshops taking place in the Western Isles in March 2010 Venue Profile We talk to Claire Blois of Tore Art Gallery near Inverness about the gallery and her plans for the future

LATEST NEWS | MORE CRAFTS NEWS

Scone Palace Prepares for an A-‘Maze’ing Easter (22 Mar 2010)

Creative Choices - free access to over 100 leadership and management courses (19 Mar 2010)

Launch of Craft Festival Scotland (18 Mar 2010)

HI-Arts Crafts Team to host makers' events (18 Mar 2010)

10 commissions announced for Unlimited, the UK’s largest programme celebrating arts, culture and sport by disabled and deaf people (18 Mar 2010)

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March 2005 Feature: The Great Gravit
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