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Our Linen Stories celebrate the versatility of linen and flax fibre in the context of our shared transnational heritage, and platforms contemporary design, material innovation and sustainable product development. We present a rolling series of exhibitions, talks, walks and workshops, presenting contemporary designers from Scotland, and beyond, with a focus on sustainability and well-being. In Sept

ember 2021, we presented Scotland’s first Flax and Linen Festival, in collaboration with Scottish Civic Trust and the communities of Fife. Participatory research for Our Linen Stories began in May 2018 and continue across Scotland and internationally, online and on the ground.

06/11/2024

JOB OPPORTUNITY 🎼🎧

As part of the flax mill activity programme we are launching the sounds of Silverburn music project. A series of workshops working with youngsters at the park, in schools and at Silverburn Festival.

This involves teaching music, composition and editing in order to create an industrial inspired soundscape. These final product will then be used in associated media and interpretation areas when the flax mill opens!

Send us a direct message for more information and details on how to apply. 🙌

20/09/2024

Mapping a Welcome to Fife
Our Linen Stories currently on display in the Community Gallery of Dunfermline Carnegie Library & Galleries includes an opening section that explores the intimate relationship between mapping and linen.

Check out linen backing on Bartholomew's, the wonderful Fife Museums OnFife designed by Mint Modern Creative and the satellite mosaic map, reminding us that we all share the same seas...

Who doesn't love a map?
We're grateful to Chris Fleet and team at the National Library of Scotland for their support over the last 10 years including with this years 1856 OS Map of Dunfermline showing just how much tge town was all about flax fibre and linen

For FlaxFest24, we're calling on visitors to help us continue our Citizen Mapping project...Place names in Fife relating to linen? Then, now and next... in Dunfermline alone there are examples of all three.

17/09/2024

Cloth and Community
Tuesday 24 September 6-8pm
Free.
Registration via Journeys in Design on Eventbrite

Welcoming You to Linen City Dunfermline and a lively panel discussion led by three people with expertise in textile and fibre collectives, all building community from the ground up.

How can inclusive textile networks enable us all to make, mend and flourish?

* From 5pm: Visit Our Linen Stories and Making Millie Exhibitions at this venue.
* From 6pm: refreshments and time to mingle before and after our discission.

Welcome Mary Morton
Founder, Edinburgh Street Stitchers, a group who take ‘Stitch It Don’t Ditch It’ banners out to streets and parks to engage with the public, sharing sewing skills to ‘repair what you wear’ and raising awareness of the need to reduce consumption of textiles.

Welcome Zoe Gilbertson
Fashion ecologist, educator and nature-centred, collaborative designer, exploring the process required to develop non-extractive fibre and textile systems. Founder, Liflad CIC, a design lab working at the intersections of fashion, fibre farming and enterprise, co-founder of the Bast Fibre Network, a Churchill Fellow, RSA Fellow, and Member of Fashion Act Now.

Welcome Kate Dyer
Active in Fibreshed Scotland with particular interest in how to engage to create a nature-orientated regenerative textile economy, and with Cofundico, helping to create community orientated funding streams so money find more useful flow in our culture.

Registration link
Eventbrite Journeys in Design

Cloth and Community is one of a creative cluster of events in Dunfermline, Tuesday 24 to Saturday 28, the culmination of FlaxFest24 and our Linen Pilgrimage through Fife.,

12/09/2024

to the Kingdom of Fife via big skies and bridges every day this month, to forward our FlaxFest24 programme.

As a medical student in late 1980s to Mikemark Hospital and as physician training in the early 1990s at Queen Margarets, I enjoyed a daily commute across the Forth Road Bridge.

Today, for events with Our Linen Stories in the last 6 years, I've had many Journeys in Design with rhe Queensferry Crossing.

Forever in awe of these engineering masterworks, I was happy to have met some of the great team from American Bridges during construction of the new bridge.

They were particularly proud to build in this location in view of the Forth Rail Bridge, and told me that Bridge builders everywhere refer to that pioneering structure simply as 'THE bridge'.

08/09/2024

A Sunday Special
We're in Ceres today on this latest stage of our Linen Pilgrimage through Fife.

No registration required at the Fife Folk Museum, a home for linen culture all year round, and currently showing a Local Linens exhibition.

Our Linen Pilgrims are also invited to enjoy a walk to nearby Birch Tree Studio.

Michael Wolchover and Kate Downie will be on hand to offer insights into their creative practice, and their experience of growing and using flax and Fife linen.

Check out the full FlaxFest24 programme on our webpage and eventbrite listing
https://www.journeysindesign.com/our-linen-stories

07/09/2024

Saintly Progress

We're in St Andrews today: come join us on this latest stage of our Linen Pilgrimage through Fife - a few (free) places left on our Walk from The Botanics to North St.

As well as a lovely walk, we are joined by two artists, from two Telephone Box Galleries: Andy Milligan's work (Sticks) explores the custom of Pilgrimage at Telos, and the inspiring Lada Wilson of 201 Gallery (Intwined), explores Linen links out from Scotland
If you'd like to come along, sign up and we'll see you later.

Ticket registration here:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1005351452257?aff=ebdsshios

Check out the full FlaxFest24 programme on our webpage and eventbrite listing
https://www.journeysindesign.com/our-linen-stories

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