Cushion Cover by Kay Matheson Gairloch Museum This delicate cushion cover was embroidered with a Celtic knotwork design by Kay Matheson. Matheson (1928 – 2013) was a well-known Scottish nationalist and Gaelic language lobbyist, born on the shores of Loch Ewe to a...
Cromdale BroochGrantown Museum This outstanding example of a ring brooch dates from the 1600s and was found locally at Cromdale. Women’s shawls or ‘arisaids’, either plain white, striped or sometimes tartan, would be fastened at the breast with a ring brooch. These...
Mackay Tartan KiltStrathnaver Museum This Mackay tartan kilt was made from a length of vegetable-dyed material for Ian Mackay. Sadly, during the First World War, Ian was killed whilst seeing action with the Sixth Battalion of the Cameron Highlanders in 1918. Following...
Original copy of Down to the Sea Seaboard Centre Down to the Sea documents life in the Seaboard villages and was made during a project led by local school teacher Jessie MacDonald from Hilton. Whilst teaching at Hilton of Cadboll Junior Secondary School in 1951-52,...
