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Our Linen Stories include a set of Design legacy projects called Flax Futures, which develop emerging themes in collaboration with key allies around Scotland and beyond. We are delighted to present regular updates here on our News page.

We also present our Newsletters and Social Media feeds, witness to the unfolding story of Our Linen Stories together with exhibitions, events and tour from our other Journeys in Design.

For Our Linen Stories, we run a dedicated Facebook as a specific means of including Y/Our Linen Stories. Many of us have a Linen Story of our own: of relatives with a link to lost factories, of treasured linen pieces, of artworks or new designs in linen, flax or composites. If you’d like to share these, we’d love to hear from you. Please post to our Facebook page or email us info@ourlinenstories.com

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Routes to a Linen Legacy 19 September 2018

Journeys in Design is developing a local legacy project in each Scottish town on Our Linen Stories tour and we look forward to reporting more over the winter months. Fife is a fascinating county full of a rich trading and industrial heritage relating to flax and linen and as your curator’s recent travels reveal, alive […]

Flax Futures

This series of legacy proposals develops new contributions to the shared material culture revealed on Our Linen Stories tour in collaboration with colleagues and organisations met en route. These proposals recognise Scotland’s part in the stories of Europe and aim to strengthen links with our neighbour ‘linen nations’.

As a member of ICOM UK (International Committee of Museums) your curator has devised projects that acknowledge the vital collaborative role of museums, attempting to explore new ways to link and celebrate design history and material culture.

By establishing small task groups for each, we hope to progress from proposal to development stage.

Airing Our Dirty Linen

Three hundred years of laundry culture

Building Sights

Envisioning a Circular Economy of Construction

Currach Project

User based redesign of a traditional tub boat

Faith in Linen

Examining ritualistic use of linen across cultures

Flax Fields

Contemporary creativity in traditional linen localities

Holistic Heritage at Silverburn

Holistic regeneration with our linen heritage at heart

Linen Millie

Women at work in the linen industry

R&D: Design Capture Damask

Contemporary techniques for archiving Damask

R&D: Linen Works Kirkcaldy

The extraordinary linen heritage of Kirkcaldy

R&D: The Huguenots in Scotland

Migration, creative energy and routes to technology transfer

R&D: Weave for Well-Being

Exploring health gain through walking and weaving

SALVAGE Scotland: Circular Economies at Sea

Maritime materials, salvage, recycling and innovation

Our Linen Stories

GP Journeys in Design is excited to announce a series of exhibitions, talks and new commissions presenting 12 contemporary designers from Scotland, Ireland and Holland. Exhibition will be open to the public on Saturday 5th May and will run until Saturday 26th May in Leith. The events celebrate the versatility of linen and flax in the context of our shared transnational heritage and will then tour throughout Scotland, N. Ireland and The Netherlands. Gayfield Projects also announces the winner of the inaugural Gayfield Design Commission. Felicity Bristow is an artist from Selkirk in the Scottish Borders and receives a commission of £10,000 in time, materials and residency at a centre of excellence outside Scotland. Felicity will use this opportunity to research and develop her practice in order to produce a small batch industrial design.