North & West Coast
Amid the harsh beauty of the coastline, it's quite a surprise to come across this beautifully designed modern 'sculpture croft', where the resident artist…
Must-see shopping in Northern Highlands & Islands
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Skye
Signposted off the main road, a wooden shed on an old croft houses a pedal-powered loom where the owners create hand-woven tweed and turn it into scarves,…
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North & West Coast
Using local landscapes as inspiration, Highland Stoneware creates memorable tableware and kitchenware. Look out for the colourful mosaic-tiled artworks…
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Skye
At the end of the narrow road that leads southwest from Armadale through Ardvasar village, this small gallery exhibits the powerful landscape paintings of…
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Skye
On the way to Dunvegan from Portree you’ll pass Edinbane Pottery, one of the island’s original craft workshops, established in 1971, where you can watch…
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Skye
Dandelion Designs is an interesting little gallery with a good range of colour and monochrome landscape photography, lino prints by Liz Myhill and a range…
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Portree (Port Righ)
Skye Batiks is a cut above your average gift shop, selling a range of interesting crafts such as carved wood, jewellery and batik fabrics with Celtic…
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Portree (Port Righ)
A sweet-smelling gift shop that specialises in handmade soaps and cosmetics made using natural ingredients and aromatherapy oils.
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Isle of Skye Crafts@Over the Rainbow
Portree (Port Righ)
Crammed with colourful knitwear and cross-stitch kits, lambswool and cashmere scarves, plus all kinds of interesting gifts.
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Outer Hebrides
Smokehouse shop selling locally sourced, peat-smoked salmon, sea trout, scallops, lobster and mackerel.
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Trotternish
If you’ve time to kill while waiting for a ferry at Uig, the Isle of Skye Brewery shop sells locally brewed ales by the bottle, as well as gifts and…
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Outer Hebrides
The only shop in town that’s open on a Sunday, selling groceries, alcohol, hardware, fishing tackle and outdoor kits. The Sunday papers arrive around 2pm.
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Ullapool
Just up from the harbour, this is a good bookshop with lots of volumes on Scottish topics as well as useful local maps.
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Portree (Port Righ)
Browse the shelves for CDs of Gaelic music and books on local subjects.
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