Monika Lamackova
Email: monatka@btinternet.com
Websites: www.red2white.etsy.com and www.red2white.co.uk
 
Monika is a designer-maker, based in Inverness who makes accessories and home decor pieces mainly from felt. She also dyes most of the fibres which she uses in her work, using both natural and synthetic dyes.

The pieces featured above are: Shibori Art Collar, naturally dyed, Hydrangeas, Felted Scarf and Strong as a Rock, Felted pebbles.

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Midge Gourlay
The Studio, The Pier, Port Appin, Argyll, PA38 4DN
Tel: +44 (0)1631 730594
Email: alex.gourlay@mac.com
Website: www.portappinstudio.co.uk

The pieces featured above are:
"Cocoon Net" (Detail) Wall piece made from hand dyed silk cocoons stitched together, "Montlaur" (Detail) Framed, mixed media, taken from French landscape and "Tournissan" Framed, mixed media, taken from French landscape.

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Ruth Black
Anna Macneil, St Michael’s Rectory, 28 Abban Street, Inverness
Telephone: +44 (0)1463 250576            
Email: info@annamacneil.co.uk
Website: www.annamacneil.co.uk

The pieces shown above are: Harris Tweed scarf, lined with polar fleece, Bog cotton wallhanging - hand made felt with silk and machine embroidery - size 30 x 40 and Hand made lattice felt scarf with matching leaf brooch and scarf ring.

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Gill Govan
Rainbow Deer Design
Glac-Na-Ceardaich, Raeric Road, Tobermory, Isle of Mull PA75 6PU.
Tel: +44 (0)1688 302558
Email: rainbowdeerd@aol.com

Description: Rugs are between 5ft by 3ft and 5ft by 6ft and are made mostly of pure wool with some silk strands. They are hand knotted with a latchet hook and each knot may contain up to eight separate strands. Prices range from £500 to £900.

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Lynn Pryde
Tel: +44 (0)1470 542349 
Website: www.lynnsbags.co.uk

Lynn makes Tweed bags and Accessories from her home on the Isle of Skye. She uses quality Scottish Tweeds including Harris Tweed and specially selected linings to draw the colours together. The bags are carefully finished with corsages made from contrasting tweeds or with flowers which she has felted using merino wool.

The Tweed Home Accessories are quirky and cheery. Brought to life with Lynn's own designs influenced by her surroundings on the Isle of Skye.

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Louise Oppenheimer
Tel: +44 (0)1546 605 323
Email: info@louiseoppenheimer.com
Web: www.louiseoppenheimer.com

Louise weaves on frames nailed top and bottom to produce hangings and framed pieces, using wool on cotton warp.

Light and weather through the seasons, influence colours and designs and the simple process of pulling weft through warp allows for physical effort to be satisfied while ideas mature into solid, tactile results. Louise enjoys condensing natural forms to design images which show their roots in nature but take a simplified approach and can be read by the viewer as an abstract pattern or a translation of place and its essence. Using the structure of trees, the flow of water and the lie of the land, together with the unseen but felt forces
of wind and time, Louise aims to make sense of my appreciation of this natural world. 

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Mary Buchanan
Cadadh, Bridge Cottage, Poolewe, Ross-shire, IV22 2JU
Tel: +44 (0)1445 781208
Website: www.cadadh.com

The pieces featured above are:

• LEWIS BAG. The Lewis is a geometric design created from two contrasting Harris Tweed fabrics. The body is a traditional Mackenzie tartan with a black herringbone for the sides and flap. The front flap is adorned with a stunning pin brooch designed by Mary and made exclusively for Cadadh. The bag is lined in a rich black velvet with two useful pockets - credit card/phone. There is a secure magnetic stud under the flap.
• FELT PETAL CORSAGE. Felted Harris Tweed corsage with Individual layers of petals, a velvet centre and glass beads. 
• FLURAN BAG. Fluran means flower in gaelic. It is adorned with felted Harris Tweed flowers and flowing ribbons, making it truly individual. It is created from a black Harris Tweed. A lovely dark tweed in shades of black and dark grey. The lining is a sumptuous black velvet with two useful pockets credit card/phone. The handles are long enough to fit over your shoulder and it has a secure magnetic stud fastening at the top. 
  

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Katie Jackson
Tel: +44 (0)1540 673486 
Email: katiejackson284@btinternet.com 
Website: www.katiejackson.net

Katie is a felt and bag maker based in Newtonmore. Katie discovered felting a couple of years ago and enjoyed 'playing with' the colours and materials. After trying basic wet-felting she started experimenting with nuno felting (felting on to open fabric such as silk). Katie loves the wrinkled textures of the felted silk and also the fact that each creation is unique - she says you never know exactly what the end result will be!

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Lynn Gray Ross
Textile Artist, Isle of Arran
Websites: http://lynngrayross.co.uk/

Pieces featured above are:

• "Formerly a Lobster Trap" - silk & natural dyed yarns woven on a "found object" loom, a recycled lobster trap, with rusty nails still intact
• "Stane Dyke" - handspun Shetland wool, handspun Linen and unspun Flax. Tradition comes together in this weaving where natural materials pay tribute to the natural elements which shape our island and record our history.
• "Shore Patterns" - Handspun and Shetland Wool dyed with Madder and Lichen. Silk and Cotton. Wooden Found Object a Gift from the Sea. “Shore Patterns” is the ripple where the sea meets the sand on a windy day.

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DD Couture Eco Friendly Bags
Firestation Cottage, Dunrobin, Golspie, Sutherland, KW10 6SF. Tel: 01408 634000
Email: dympna@ddcouture.com
Web: www.ddcouture.com

What Will Your Bag Say?

One of a kind Eco Friendly bags, cut, sewn and of course designed only in Golspie, Sutherland.

Each bag is 100% manufactured in the Highlands, and costs £9.00 plus postage and packaging.

Exclusivity for less than a tenner - need I say more? Other sizes are available - just ask!

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