Angharad came to Shetland to spend a summer at the Centre. She made some beautiful designs for scarves and shawls which are on sale in Lerwick's Museum and Archive, and Spider's Web shop. Angharad has now gone on to create some lovely blinds for the Museum restaurant, and is working on some new des...

A fun project to raise the profile of the Centre, and to get people together to try their hand at weaving a huge area of cloth. We used Jamieson's cloth from the last surviving weaving mill in the isles, and volunteers. Joy Duncan was our resident drummer, and the Baltasound Leisure Centre kindly al...

In 2008/ 09, we created a wall hanging based on the yearly life on a croft in Shetland. The idea came from a piece in the Centre's collection, from Zimbabwe, depicting a Woman's Day, and our version included people and groups from all over Shetland. It was a wonderful project, and huge thanks for ...

We would like to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Thank you for your help over the past year, and let's look forward to a successful 2010. Andy...

The Centre was officially launched in July 2007 by Joanna Foster, Chair of the Crafts Council (UK) and Ann Sutton, creator of ASF Weave, and now patron of ASF Shetland. The launch was very well attended, with councillors, our local MSP, makers and artists coming together to celebrate. Ann Sutton ga...