Meet our Makers
Our makers range from city-dwellers to remote islanders. Some are flying solo, doing their making in the pockets of time after the day job’s done, others are building up impressive teams of people and taking on studios and industrial units. They are creative, innovative, passionate, skilled and hugely hardworking. Here are their stories.
Meet our Makers
Read moreThe story of Great Glen Charcuterie always sounded an intriguing. A Dutch couple with six children, living in the Scottish Highlands, producing venison (that most Scottish of foods) charcuterie (not such a Scottish food). So how did it happen? “We...
Read moreIt’s a beautiful, colourful range of dinner candles that Glasgow-based Shearer Candles makes. The company has been a family business since it started making church candles back in 1897. It was bought two years ago by a Liverpool-based family business...
Read moreIn 1981, Dickon Green’s father and uncle lived in Worcester but were looking for a fishing place in Scotland. They found Uig Lodge, set in a stunning location on the Isle of Lewis and fell in love with the place....
Read moreIn lockdown you could go to Shibui’s website and send a card to a loved one, with a selection of 5 tea bags in it. Claire and John would handwrite your message into the card and it really took off....
Read moreHer fine, colourful scarves are things of beauty and to think that Katherine Cowtan creates all of these colourful pieces on a loom in her workshop. “My roots are in being a creative person,” she says and this is clear...
Read moreSuzie was cutting a client’s hair while telling him of her frustration that it was so hard to find sustainable products for her salon. She’d long struggled with the amount of plastic they threw away, especially as only 18% or...
