A new exhibition has reopened at the British Museum in London: Arctic: Culture and Climate .

Kolam is the Asian art and craft of making patterns out of ground rice to greet the start of each day.

Each week a piece from the studio collection is selected for the blog. This time it is a (possible) Rya rug of Tutankhamun..

There is a new book for viewing in the library when the studio reopens: Peter Collingwood's "The Techniques of Rug Weaving"

Each week the blog presents a different article from the collection in the studio. This week, a woven whirlpool...

It is a little while since we shared some pics of the islands. This year the summer colours are absolutely brilliant, in all senses of the word.

The Metropolitan Museum in New York conserved and displayed a unique carpet. The job took years...

Over the time we have been in the buildings in Sellafirth, fourteen years now, we have been looking after the wild flowers that come up each year in what looks like barren ground.

A new book for the library, Working with the wool, has arrived.

As part of this engrossing study of Shetland's tweeds, a new-to-me advert has been added to the collection.