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Starts: 18:30
Ends: 20:00
Online talk about our relationship with plants, string making and textiles from the neolithic, the mesolithic and contemporary historical sources from Scotland and Finland. Speakers will be Caroline Dear, Artist; Tuija Kirkinen archaeologist; and Susanna Harris archaeologist.
Booking via Eventbrite.
Free.
String/lines Project / Skye & Lochalsh Archive Centre
Phone 01478 614078
Email Skyeandlochalsh.archives@highlifehighland.com
About the speakers:
Caroline Dear, is an artist whose work is informed by archaeology, Gaelic culture, botany and traditional skills. She has exhibited widely, her most recent commission is a series of nets and ropes made from local materials for Climavore, an international art research project. She has developed the String / lines project and received funding for this from creative scotland.
Dr Tuija Kirkinen, University of Helsinki, is a Finnish archaeologist who is specialised in animal hair identification, fibre research, human-animal relations and biological cultural heritage. She is also a weaver and interested in traditional handicrafts.
Dr Susanna Harris is Senior Lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Glasgow. She specialises in archaeological textiles, approaching these through scientific and experimental approaches. Her current project are the Viking Age Textiles of the Galloway Hoard (900 CE) and the Bronze Age fibre and fabrics of Must Farm (850 BCE).
