Crofting
Crofting Life in the Outer Hebrides through the eye of a basket maker.
Like any other community before the ready availability of plastic items, baskets made in natural materials were essential to life. In the Outer Hebrides one basket was used for many jobs. The creel. Now creel as a description can …Continue reading “Crofting Life in the Outer Hebrides through the eye of a basket maker.”
Plata-mhuilinn
The plata-mhuilinn was a form of grain basket from `Heisker’, or the Monach Isles, which lie to the west of North Uist in the Outer Hebrides.It is made from bent grass, or marram. Growing abundantly on the island dunes, bent …Continue reading “Plata-mhuilinn”
