Creating year-round sustainable business demand for the Outer Hebrides textile industry

Collaborating with a Scottish heritage brand towards enhancing and preserving sustainable artisan hand-weaving practices through a knowledge transfer partnership. (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
STEED, J., CROSS, K. and WILSON, B. 2023. Collaborating with a Scottish heritage brand towards enhancing and preserving sustainable artisan hand-weaving practices through a knowledge transfer partnership. Journal of textile design research and practice [online], 11(1-2): revised papers from the 5th Futurescan conference (Futurescan 5): conscious communities, 7-8 September 2022, Leeds, UK, pages 127-147. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1080/20511787.2023.2234650

This paper discusses a Knowledge Transfer Project (KTP) with a global Scottish heritage brand, which aimed to develop a year-round sustainable business model through a design-led approach to new product innovation that improves the brand's sustainabi... Read More about Collaborating with a Scottish heritage brand towards enhancing and preserving sustainable artisan hand-weaving practices through a knowledge transfer partnership..

Weaving a community: securing the intangible cultural heritage created by Harris Tweed. (2023)
Book Chapter
STEED, J., CROSS, K. and WILSON, B. [2025]. Weaving a community: securing the intangible cultural heritage created by Harris Tweed. In Kosmidou, E.R. and McMurtry, L.G. (eds.) Intangible cultural heritage and new methodological frameworks: media, performance and the public space. Abingdon: Routledge, chapter 7. (Forthcoming)

This chapter discusses collaboration between industry and academia to support the intangible cultural heritage of Scottish tweed. Firstly, a Knowledge Transfer Partnership between Harris Tweed Hebrides and Robert Gordon University that sought to "exp... Read More about Weaving a community: securing the intangible cultural heritage created by Harris Tweed..