Thoughts from the Loom

20 December 2021

Keep the Heid! Prickly Hats: A historic Scottish story…

Woolly Hats. We all love them. Most of our body heat is lost through our heads so we all need them too! Every year they come out in...

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07 December 2021

Models: The Power & Responsibility of Imagery

There is a responsibility that comes with putting imagery out into the digital world. Yet a lot of brands turn their heads from this because portraying a specific...

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24 November 2021

BOLLOCKS TO BLACK FRIDAY

There’s a big difference between what we want and what we need. Sadly, that’s been distorted heavily and caused us to feel like we need lots of things...

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16 November 2021

Face It – No Health on a Dead Planet

Our ‘Mask of Integrity’ is a facemask made from 100% natural wool fibers, designed to tailor the best possible fit for the wearer and a zero-waste design from...

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21 October 2021

Taoes Cultural Creations: The Prickly Thistle Soundtrack

Fabric is a craft that interacts with pretty much 100% of humanity. Music is the same. Two ancient foundations of culture that have stood the test of time....

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22 September 2021

Meaningful Maps: Our Rebel Radius of Heritage

Maps What meaningful things they are A 10,000 year journey of humans trying to understand this Earth. Their development is a testament to the art of making mistakes,...

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20 September 2021

Making Sense of Eco Anxiety

Aye, it’s real. Not just a new branch of moaning invented by the ‘snowflake generation’....that's what the big polluters would conveniently like you to believe. No, eco anxiety...

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08 September 2021

Weebox Collab: Supporting Scotland's Businesses With a Wee Bit of Heritage In The Post

Our whole team here at the mill have been working away in a production line for the last wee while. The reason? To construct tartan corsages for the...

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31 August 2021

Give (Back) Credit to Heritage Communities #1: Welcoming students to our mill!

In August we welcomed some visitors to the mill for a design residency – Ciara and Cara, two creative students, along with their co-ordinator Fran from the University...

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15 July 2021

The Rebel Washboard, A Tale of Two Scottish Artisans

Glass blowing is a combination of inventive thinking, impeccable skill and natural materials… sounds a lot like tartan right? Although the textile may be more globally iconic to...

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30 June 2021

Repeal It - A Pass it on Marketplace

When thinking about our ‘Repeal It’ campaign, we wanted to publicly address our responsibility as a maker to ensure that what we put out into the world gets...

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01 June 2021

New NC500 beginnings and the best blanket in Europe...

We have made our official debut on the North Coast 500! If you are an avid follower of NC500 on social media, you might have seen us featured...

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