An Eriskay creel

Eriskay is a small island off the tip of South Uist, Outer Hebrides. Lise Bech and Kate Sankey made two creels reconstructed from an original Eriskay creel. This creel was a 20 stake creel and had a simple mouthwale start as in the ones made by Donald MacDonald of Gisla shown in the how to make video . The Eriskay creel has the second stakes placed to the left of the first and then taken in front of that original stake and bent over with a

Creel, Tarbert, Harris. Detail of band. Highland Folk Museum

Creel, Tarbert, Harris. Detail of band. Highland Folk Museum

rounded corner. This is like the one shown here in the Highland Folk Museum from the Isle of Harris.

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