Artists and Crafters

Louise Bonnie lives and works in Strathan, near Lochinver.
She is a very talented seamstress who creates a whole range of beautiful hand sewn wallets,
purses and bags using high quality materials. She also has a lovely collection of tweed caps
and offers alterations and mending services.
She is also a wonderful teacher and provides dressmaking and upholstery courses
at the local leisure centre during the winter season. 

Jorine van Delft creates naturally hand dyed yarns, focusing on dyeing in small batches to create a truly unique product.
She also offers hand spun wool, knitwear and woven items as well as dyeing and spinning workshops and private spinning lessons.
Part of the yarn collection is created from local sheep flocks. Some of this yarn is hand spun and some is sourced from Middleton croft in Elphin. These local yarns are complemented by high quality yarns from British wool mills. Green Cabin Yarns is committed to be as green and sustainable a business as possible.
That’s why it only stocks natural yarns and fibers.

Barbara MacLeod is a crofter in Inverkirkaig, Assynt. Her home grown cabbages are nurtured under the perfect blend of Highland sun, rain and cooler temperatures, ensuring a rich harvest that enhances the flavours of her sauerkrauts.
Cruciferous Croft was founded with a passion for sustainable farming and the art of fermentation. 
Barbara focusses on using traditional methods and homegrown ingredients to create unique flavours utilising traditional lacto fermentation techniques, her sauerkrauts are naturally fermented for optimal taste and health benefits.
From classic to creative blends, her range of sauerkrauts caters to all palates, bringing a taste of the Highlands to your plate.

Isabelle and Richard Flannery have been making charcuterie since 2004.
Their wide range of products is made with meat from Highland producers based in Elphin, Forres and Ardgay and mature Scottish Cheddar from Locherbie. They also forage many of the other ingredients from the local area, such as chanterelles, rowan berries, bog myrtle, gorse flowers, black currants, seaweed and wild garlic.

All their products are gluten free and hand made by Isabelle and Richard at 142 Oldshoremore, Kinlochbervie, where you can purchase their products 7 days a week 9am till 5pm. 

Beautiful bowls and other wood turned products, using mostly local wood
which are sourced as close to the workshop in Fodderty as possible (no felling !).

Justine Ritchie is a photographer based in the NW Highlands. Her work is very much inspired by the wild, elemental landscapes and seascapes of the Scottish Highlands and Islands and reflects not only the natural world but also people’s interaction with the environment.

Her work adopts a more mindful, intuitive and immersive approach rather than a purely technical one and incorporates both camera based work and alternative photographic processes such as cyanotype and anthotype printing.

Pamela King is a maker of individual jewellery items dividing her time between Edinburgh and Assynt.
She works with silver, painted aluminium, semi-precious stones, hand-blown beads
based on archaeological finds, and other small found objects.
All her metal is recycled, and she specialises in re-purposing and refurbishing elements
of broken jewellery, teaspoons and other small cutlery and ephemera, including orphan
earrings and old buttons.
Email Pamela for  details and images of individual items, to discuss a custom-made item, or to order.

The Crafty Crofters are a craft collective in Assynt. We started in 2014 and can be found at the local Made in Assynt Craft Market in Lochinver where we have a stall and sell our crafts.