Bark Day!
Saturday, 18 May 2024. West Moss Side Farm, Thornhill. This is the second in-person meeting of our new regional basket makers’ group. Anyone who makes baskets relatively regularly as a hobby or a profession is welcome. We’ll learn how to…
Open Studios North Fife
May 4th, 5th & 6th, 2024. North Fife. Open Studios North Fife is a big collective of exciting and talented artists, designers and makers who come together to create a fantastic experience for visitors. A great opportunity for you to…
Culture in the making
16th March 2024. Museum of Making, Derby. As the UK prepares to join the 2003 UNESCO Convention on Intangible Cultural Heritage, join Heritage Crafts and Derby Museums to celebrate! In December the UK Government announced the historic decision that the…
Journal of Museum Ethnography
This issue of the Journal of Museum Ethnography is devoted to papers presented at the Museum Ethnographers Group meeting, Baskets of the World, which took place at the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, in November 1992.
Basketry Showcase
12th March 2024. London. The Worshipful Company of Basketmakers will be holding their Basketry Showcase on 12th March, in the City of London. We will be celebrating the best of basketry, with lots of fabulous pieces for sale, and an…
Fife Self Help Group Meeting
27th January 2024. Kirkcaldy. A small group of weavers met in Burntisland at Susie Redman’s studio on 2 December to weave a few Christmas stars and discuss formation of a Fife self-help basketry group. We decided to trial meeting on…
Willow Cutting Days
20/21st & 27/28th Jan 2024 South Lanarkshire Anna Liebmann will be running willow cutting days in January (TBC… 20/21 Jan, 27/28 Jan) at her patch in South Lanarkshire, where people are welcome to take material to make cuttings in return…
Willow Harvest
3rd January onwards 2024. Naturally Useful, Forres. The willow harvest at Naturally Useful starts on 3rd Jan, order your willow cuttings from now on. Karen Collins be taking 40 cm cuttings each day throughout the harvest, which will be ready…
ARTIST TALKS & GATHERING
30 November 2023. Online. Join us for an evening of artist talks from artists and cultural groups working across the Highlands and Islands, and for a hang out afterwards. In the run up to an in person gathering in Skye…
WASPS Artists & Makers Winter Market
24th to 26th November 2023. Inverness, Highland. We’re excited to be welcoming you back for the Wasps Winter Market at Inverness Creative Academy this November. Stop by to browse stacks of unique gift ideas – jewellery, homewares, prints, original paintings,…