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I love this: Tower Mill Heart of Hawick

Tower Mill, formerly a spinning mill, once served the flourishing textile industry of Hawick. It was the river system that powered the industry, the...

Behind Closed Doors: Wedgwood

Traditional craftsmanship combines with cutting-edge design in the china manufacturer’s collaboration with Lee Broom Hipsters everywhere are proud to profess their love of all things...

By joining forces and pooling resources, the four women behind Collect Scotland have put printed textiles – and their talented makers – firmly centre...

The textiles scene in Scotland is big business. We may no longer manufacture on anything like the same scale as in the past, but...

Design Archives: Lucienne Day (1917-2010)

Lucienne Day, one of the greatest talents of 20th-century textile design is being celebrated throughout 2017, the centenary of her birthFor Robin and Lucienne...

Art Words by Stephen Bird

My maternal grandmother, Margaret Rose Magness, lived in a beautiful ivy-clad, red-brick cottage just off the main road that connects the market town of...

Self portrait

Scottish photographer Graham MacIndoe’s descent into drug addition is the subject of a graphic and personal exhibition at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery. Twenty-five...

This Life – Doshi Levien

The boundary between home and work has been erased for these two extraordinary designers, and they couldn’t be happier Jonathan Levien spent much of his...

Powerful photographs of women doing ordinary things by Franki Raffles

Franki Raffles' photographs of 'ordinary women doing everyday tasks' make a powerful, enduring statement about inequality in the modern world A photograph can define an...

Art Words by Sophie Morrish

Sophie Morrish studied at the Chelsea School of Art and the Royal College of Art. She moved to Scotland in the mid-1990s and is...

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