Here you can find our weaving workshop, complete with vintage floor looms, our design offices and a showroom where we display our collections and offer private shopping consultations, making for a gorgeous Scottish experience. Our small team of hand weavers work in the atelier, sharing our passion for Scottish textiles and helping to keep our weaving heritage alive.
Handweaving takes precision and patience, with each warp prepared by hand and meticulously threaded through the shafts of the loom.
Our Handwoven Collections are all handwoven with British alpaca here in our Edinburgh atelier. Each piece can take between three days and three weeks to create. Every scarf, shawl, wrap and throw is woven individually, and given our signature hand stitched tassels while on the loom.
Once weaving is complete there is a lengthy finishing process involving washing, streaming, stitching and brushing – all by hand. This is how the beautifully soft handle and elegant drape is achieved.
It has taken years for our weavers to attain the skill and knowledge required to create our handwoven items, and we are proud to be helping to sustain the craft of handweaving here in Scotland and be the largest employer of handweavers in Britain.
Araminta Campbell Atelier Weaving Workshop
As well as leading the business, Araminta designs all of our Signature and Minta collections and works directly with our custom design clients to create their unique tweeds and tartans.
Amelie is one of the youngest members of our handweaving team. She has enjoyed honing her handweaving skills on the vintage looms and also learning more about alpaca fibre and fleece qualities. Amelie is passionate about sustainability and keeping ancient crafts alive and takes great delight in seeing the amazement on private shoppers faces when they witness the handweaving first hand and take home their very own handwoven piece.
As an advocate for sustainability and ethical production, hand weaving appealed to Helen as the embodiment of slow, responsible craft. She fell in love with the challenging yet meditative weave process and never tires of seeing a piece come to life on the loom, pick by pick.
Lisa studied weaving at Heriot Watt University, in the borders of Scotland – an area renowned for its textile production. She always enjoyed creating things and was recommended to study textiles by her art teacher. When first starting out in her weave degree, she found the slow process of setting up challenging, yet today it’s her favourite part. She finds peace whilst threading the loom, enjoying and embracing the flow. Â
In her final year of studying art at school, Nicole realised she was far more drawn to fabric than paint. And so, she embarked upon her textiles degree at Heriot Watt, in the borders of Scotland, and discovered her love for weaving. Nicole enjoys the moment when she can finally start physically weaving; seeing the patten begin to emerge in the cloth is always a joy after all the work spent setting up the loom. Nicole also specialises in quality checking our British alpaca fleeces before sending them for spinning. Â
Isabelle has long had an interest in textiles, ever since her grandmother taught her to sew. She discovered weaving when visiting universities before applying to study. Immediately captivated by the woven textile displays at Loughborough University – the home of our George Wood looms – she became fascinated by how these complex woven structures could be created from just a few cones of yarn. Isabelle enjoys the slow, hands-on process of weaving, appreciating how it demands your full and present focus, and is always excited to share the complexities of handweaving to our visitors. Â
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