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A Bag for Isobel, Isobel Wylie Hutchison Collection, Carlowrie Castle

Plaited hairmoss, stitched with waxed linen. Isobel Wylie Hutchison Collection, Carlowrie Castle, inspired by the explorer/botanist/writer. A bag to take on her 1927 Greenland expedition, to prompt a conversation about craft, plants and exploration. Based on a vasculum, a container carried by botanists to collect and transport plant samples.

A Bag for Isobel, Isobel Wylie Hutchison Collection, Carlowrie Castle

Plaited hairmoss, stitched with waxed linen. Part of the Craft Design House/Isobel Wylie Hutchison Collection, inspired by this extraordinary explorer/botanist/writer, at Carlowrie Castle. This image shows the scale of the piece. Made of hairmoss, "one of the most surprising basketry materials used in early Scotland" according to "Flora Celtica".