Journeys in Design

30/10/2024

Coming Soon: Craft Week Scotland 2024

📆 Dates: 11 Nov - 17 Nov 2024

Join us to celebrate the richness of Scottish craft this November!

Craft Week Scotland 2024 will shine a spotlight on the wide range of craft businesses across the country, from Shetland to Dumfries & Galloway. This year we are encouraging shoppers to support makers around Scotland by visiting their nearest craft-focused retail venue.

Discover skilled makers on your doorstep, support local craft retailers, and enjoy a meaningful shopping experience.

Stay tuned for more...

Image courtesy of Wild Gorse Pottery

26/09/2024

From Fife to Finland, Culross to Cairney Hill, N.Ireland to Nepal ...
Natural Fibre Networks today from diverse places and engaging people, gifting stories and exploring possibilities for new links and collaboration.
Thank you Kate Dyer for enabling the exchanges and all present for bringing their textile network items and energies.

We'll offer more details and links to participants in future posts and in our What Next FlaxFest offerings in the coming months.

Meantime, come visit is Dunfermline Carnegie Library and secure your free copy of The Linen Press first edition.

As our Linen Pilgrimage draws to a close this weekend, you are warmly invited to our Weaving Community gathering on Saturday afternoon. Details in the Insta Bio and on Journeys in Design on Eventbrite.

25/09/2024

25/09/2024

Re-Generative chat aplenty at our latest Twilight Talk, part of FlaxFest24.

Huge thanks to our guest speakers and our super engaged audience.

To for insights on what options may lie ahead for an emerging flax fibre economy...
To Mary Morton for insights on routes to activism around make and mend...
To Kate Dyer for insights into regenerative textile communities and the role of commoning funds ...

We all left nourished by the joy of discussion, capturing the energy of solutions.

Including questions from Dougie Saunders of The Flax Mill at and Nick Evans of

Thanks to Carlos Hernon for capturing the Talk on video and to .ragni for these and other images from the evening.

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Journeys curator producer had the great pleasure of wearing a screen printed linen shirt jacket, the latest collaboration between titans of textiles .neil of and Jane McCann, natural fibres educator and designer.

Jane will discuss her collaboration with Finnish designer at this Thursdays Natural Fibres Scotland gathering, with
Register via Journeys in Design on Eventbrite.

23/09/2024

Cloth and Community - https://mailchi.mp/gayfield/stepping-out-17303472 our latest news with details of Five Days in Linen City Dunfermline

20/09/2024

Mapping a Welcome to Fife
Our Linen Stories currently on display in the Community Gallery of Dunfermline Carnegie Library & Galleries includes an opening section that explores the intimate relationship between mapping and linen.

Check out linen backing on Bartholomew's, the wonderful Fife Museums OnFife designed by Mint Modern Creative and the satellite mosaic map, reminding us that we all share the same seas...

Who doesn't love a map?
We're grateful to Chris Fleet and team at the National Library of Scotland for their support over the last 10 years including with this years 1856 OS Map of Dunfermline showing just how much tge town was all about flax fibre and linen

For FlaxFest24, we're calling on visitors to help us continue our Citizen Mapping project...Place names in Fife relating to linen? Then, now and next... in Dunfermline alone there are examples of all three.

18/09/2024

Meet Millie June...
Can you make up a Millie for display?

Our Linen Millie tea towel tribute to the working women of the linen industry includes a cut-out pattern and instructions to assemble a Linen Millie doll, a focus for crafting skill and memories old and new.

From a first set of 18 Millies (9 from Scotland and 9 from N.Ireland), created for display at Dovecot Studios Edinburgh in September 2019, the collection now exceeds 160 dolls.

Making Millie 2024 displays a selection of Linen Millies by group including:
* Millie fae Fife, from around the Kingdom

This year, with the support of local enterprise, Sew Yarn Crafty on the High St in Dunfermline, we are calling out again, to display in tribute to Dunfermline’s own Linen Millies at FlaxFest24.

Can you tell the story of a Millie in tour family, for exhibition?

18/09/2024

Meet Millie Fatima and Millie Robina...

Making Millie 2024 displays a selection of Linen Millies by group including
* A Dive into Archives, Flax Mill & Maltings, Shrewsbury
* One Millie, All Nations, Sewing2gether All Nations, Paisley

In 2021, the sewing group at The Flax Mill and Maltings in Shrewsbury reserached local archives and crafted Millies from the 1820s.

In 2022, the wonderful team at Sewing2gether All Nations in Paisley, worked with refugee women in Renfrewshire to craft their migration stories.

Linen mill workers, sometimes called ‘Millies’, formed the backbone of the first industry to emerge in Scotland and much of Europe. Journeys in Design commissioned a tea towel tribute to these working women.

Can you tell the story of a Millie in tour family, for exhibition?