Stories

Inspiring stories from and about our making community

Factories

Film: What happens when you put textile designers in a ...

February 04, 2016

The Hospitalfield in Industry residency, embedded tex...

Inspiration

A list of Laser Cutters in Scotland

February 02, 2016

Laser Cutting enables you to produce high quality, fi...

Article

Our global manufacturing system is broken. How can we m...

February 01, 2016

Make Works are opening our doors and encouraging you ...

Factories

Factory Friday: DCA Print Studio

January 29, 2016

Scotland is unique in the world in having funded prin...

Inspiration

Five manufacturers for leather in Scotland.

January 28, 2016

From industrial scale tanneries, to one man band sadd...

Bookshelf

These plates from 1937 beautifully illustrate the proce...

January 22, 2016

Eleven plates published by the National Association o...

Factories

Factory Friday : 10kH Upholstery

January 15, 2016

Silvia Perez and Rose Black are upholsterers based in...

Factories

Factory Friday: Broad Workshop

January 08, 2016

Edinburgh based fabricator, Guy Scott, explains why h...

Inspiration

Guide to fabrication courses in Scotland: the workshops...

January 07, 2016

New Year is an opportunity to learn a skill. To inspi...

Inspiration

Machinery Monday: The Pugmill

January 04, 2016

Ever wondered what happens to leftover scraps of clay...