Crafts
Every craft practised by the makers on The Haud, from basketry and paper marbling to besom making.
Basketry
Baskets built by hand from split oak, willow and hazel.
5 pieces
Besom making
The birch broom, bound to a hazel or ash handle with split withy. Fewer than five people in the UK still make them for a living.
1 piece
Brushmaking
Brushes bound and drawn by hand, bristle by bristle, into turned and shaped wooden stocks.
5 pieces
Embroidery
Stitch as decoration: needle and tambour hook worked into cloth, from pearl-set pieces to Lunéville beadwork.
31 pieces
Painting
Oil, watercolour and the heritage painting traditions, from narrowboat roses and castles to sign writing.
17 pieces
Paper marbling
Colour floated on a thickened bath, combed into pattern, then lifted onto the sheet in a single pull. No two are the same.
18 pieces
Papercutting
Whole images cut from a single sheet with a blade.
1 piece
Printmaking
Linocut, etching, screenprint, lithograph, letterpress and fine press: an image cut, etched, exposed or set, then inked and pulled by hand.
3 pieces
Quilting
Three layers stitched into one.
8 pieces
Rope, cordage & knotwork
Rope laid and knotted by hand, from bell ropes and mats to leads and lanyards.
12 pieces
Straw work
Wheat straw and rush worked into corn dollies, hats and household things, following the harvest year.
4 pieces
Woodwork & marquetry
Green wood, turned forms and marquetry: timber worked at the lathe, the bench and the knife.
1 piece