Perkins Brailler MachineUllapool Museum In 1951, David Abraham worked as a woodworking teacher at the Perkins school for the blind and wanted the students to have better equipment to write braille with. His solution was the Perkins Brailler. The device allows users...
Selkirk Grace Box in GaelicGairloch Museum This decorative wooden board has been inscribed with a Gaelic translation of the words of the Selkirk Grace, usually attributed to Scottish Bard Robert Burns: Some hae meat and canna eat, And some wad eat that want...
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...
Korean Bible Seaboard Centre This Bible, written in Korean, is a modern-day example of John Ross’s translation of the Christian Bible. In 1872, thirty-year-old John Ross was sent by the Scottish United Presbyterian Mission to Northeast China, where he founded...
South Korean Map Seaboard Centre This map of Pyongan Province in South Korea dates back to the early 1800s. It is part of the Seaboard Centre collection because of long-standing connections between the area of Easter Ross and Christians in present-day South Korea. ...
