A shoal of brightly coloured knitted herring and a new exhibition featuring historic fishermen’s sweaters or ganseys are now on display at the Scottish Fisheries Museum at Anstruther in Fife. The exhibitions celebrate the textile heritage of Scotland’s fishing communities…
An immersive three-screen video and sound installation exploring Shetland’s ‘haaf’ (deep sea) fishing stations of the 18th and 19th centuries has opened at the Scottish Maritime Museum in Irvine in southwest Scotland. The collaborative project, Confusing Shadow with Substance, by…
Photographer Laszlo Torday documented the North East of England, including the North Shields fishing industry, for decades. Yet little is known of him – or about his pictures. Brian W Lavery reports… Day after day, year after year, he went…
A grant from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) and the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Digital Innovation and Engagement Fund is set to enable the Scottish Fisheries Museum’s Fish Net project, which will produce a digitised, publicly accessible archive.…
Des Pawson does knots. He does all sorts of knots. In fact, there can’t be many knots he does not know. And ropework; he does sailors’ ropework in particular, which is where knotting is and, more particularly, was the key…
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