29 June 2022, Starts: 19:30, Ends: 21:30

String Ceilidh

Kilmuir Hall

Explore the history of string making with local materials - listen, make, share stories and song. Pop-up exhibition. If you wish, bring along your own knitting, sewing, rope-making etc.

Free event, with donations for tea and cake to the Kilmuir HIstorical Society.

The  people involved in this ceilidh are -

CAROLINE DEAR, artist based on Skye whose work explores our connection with the plants and landscape around us in particular through traditional hand skills 

Dr. KAREN HARDY, archaeologist based in Lochalsh and Barcelona who focuses on the Palaeolithic examining evidence of string, textiles and the use of plants 

ANNE MARTIN widely acclaimed singer interested in traditional song and researching songs and stories of her locality in Kilmuir on Skye

TUIIJA KIRKINEN  Finnish archaeologist who specialises in microscopic analysis of material evidence, plant and animal, as well as being a trained weaver

CATHERINE MACPHEE archivist at Skye and Lochalsh Archive Centre, part of Highlife Highland, interested in opening up the archive and hearing peoples stories  

The string ceilidh in Kilmuir will explore amongst other things - the local linen industry and historical, economic reflections, spinning differences with a spindle or a wheel, how archaeological evidence of string making is found…

Caroline Dear has started a blog and instagram page which will have more information soon!https://carolinedearstring.blogspot.comhttps://www.instagram.com/carolinedearstring/?hl=en

ANY QUESTIONS  - carolinekgdear@gmail.com