We want to celebrate and reignite the popularity of heritage crafts of the Highlands, and the sheep wool, as our abundant historical resource.

That is why we created the Cycle of Wool - the series of workshops designed to provide a complete set of skills necessary to create clothes and/or home textile from sheep wool, from field to skin – the resource that we have in abundance locally and that is, sadly, often discarded as a by-product of sheep farming.

There are so many more uses to sheep wool than crafting and making fabric out of it. Sheep wool has unrivalled potential as a 100% biodegradable, renewable and sustainable resource that can find application in so many spheres of our life, both in domestic and commercial use. To find out more, please follow this link.

The aim of The Cycle of Wool is to attract more interest to sheep wool industry in the Highlands and to work towards decentralizing natural fiber production and dye processes to strengthen our local economic opportunities, create more jobs and improve mental well-being of the members of our community.

We find it especially relevant and important due to the past of the Highlands and so called “clearances”, forced evictions of local population to facilitate introduction of vast numbers of sheep to the area.

We invited our local incredibly talented and creative crafters to share that wealth of knowledge and skill they possess, with the hope that local community will take on this initiative and develop it into a trend.

While attending the complete series of workshops will comprise a comprehensive set of skills and understanding how wool, or other fibers, are transformed into something wearable, it is not mandatory to come to all of them. All workshops of this series are designed in such a way that they are building up on the knowledge gained at the previous stage, however, every session is a separate event where attendants are provided with all required information and materials.