Happy New Year 12th January
Blowing on the Embers The Oidhche Challain custom of circling, in a sunwise direction, the fire in each home, on the evening prior to 12th of January, the Old New Year’s Day, no longer happens regularly in the Isle of…
Willow Creel Workshop Isle of Lewis Cliabh
For centuries, a creel was used in the Isle of Lewis to carry earth, seaweed and manure to meagre plots of earth, hard earned in barren places. The creel was also used to carry, peats, fish and sometimes even babies…