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YPC respond to Sisters with Transistors

Young People’s Collective (YPC) members Aiesha, Catherine and Gareth talk about pioneers, fear of change, and the barriers...

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Reclaiming space, responding to challenge

After the signs come down, what is design’s role in tackling gender-based violence and creating safe spaces?

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A "tasteless" history of the Paisley pattern

Delve into the history of the Paisley pattern

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سکاٹش ڈیزائن آئیکنز : پروں والا تاج (Winged Tiara)

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Global Pride

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Scottish Design Icons: Winged Tiara

Discover the memories evoked by the winged tiara.

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Making V&A Dundee: Stormy Day

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Puppet on a string: Fashion shows in covid

Discover the new way to attend fashion shows

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Paisley shawls in literature

A look at how the Paisley pattern was referenced in literature

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苏格兰艺术设计的典范：舞台背景绘本

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Scottish Design Icons: Pop-up stage set

Discover a stage set in the form of a huge pop-up picture book

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Back to the 60s: an audio tour of Mary Quant

We recorded artist and describer Juliana Capes describing the exhibition to her friend Anne Dignan

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Making V&A Dundee: A farewell to Mary Quant

We say goodbye to 'Mary Quant' with this stunning painting by one of our visitors

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Making-Up the 1960s: Mary Quant Cosmetics

Mary Quant influenced make-up as well as fashion

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Mary Quant: An Ongoing Legacy

Learn more about the ongoing legacy Mary Quant created

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Makers and Manufacturers panel discussion

Hear from experts on how Mary collaborated with manufacturers to make her designs a reality

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Quant and Bazaar

Explore how Quant distrupted the fashion retailing landscape

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A long way from home: the Paisley pattern and India

Taking a closer look at the paisley pattern

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Working with Quant

We sat down with Heather Tilbury Phillips for a first-hand account of Quant's incredible story

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Enchanting glimpses through paper windows

Intricate paper design has us feeling all festive 🎄

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苏格兰艺术设计的典范： 麦金托什的杰作

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A uniform approach

How Laura Spring designed elements for our Visitor Assistants' uniform

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Pandemic Objects

Chronicling everyday ‘objects’ to reflect on the coronavirus outbreak

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When Edi met Mary

From the archives, listen to broadcaster Edi Stark interview Mary Quant

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On Quant: Meredith More meets Heather Tilbury Phillips

Hear our curator chat to former co-director of Mary Quant Limited

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Scottish Design Icons: Mackintosh’s Masterpiece

Explore the feelings evoked my Mackintosh's stunning interior

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Designing Now Accepting Contactless

How do you design an exhibition to be visited in a pandemic?

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Invisible geometries: skateboards and new social dynamics

How skateboarding can transform urban spaces and create a new social dynamic

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Possessed: Museum comes alive

Illustrator Steven Learmonth brings our museum to life for Halloween 🎃

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Reproducing Quant: Challenges

Making reproduction pieces comes with a set of challenges

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Reproducing Quant: Process

Recreating vintage designs in a contemporary context

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Making V&A Dundee: Open again

Our amazing Visitor Assistants share their experiences of returning to work during the pandemic

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Reproducing Quant: Legacy

How Mary Quant's legacy informed informed and influenced our costume maker's project

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Home and dry: designing a raincoat

Museum, manufacturer and modern maker unite to handcraft a contemporary raincoat

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Design as an Attitude with Alice Rawsthorn

Hear Alice Rawsthorn explore how design is responding to complex social, political and environmental challenges

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Open/Close Dundee: Community

How street art in Dundee has fostered a sense of community and ownership

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Open/Close Dundee: Process

How does a painted door in the city go from an idea to a realised work of street art?

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Open/Close Dundee: Beginnings

Find out more about Open/Close Dundee and how it started

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What would Quant do?

Quant's sixties' rebellion brought into the 21st century

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What is Sewing Box for the Future?

Hear Dr Jen Ballie discuss the urgent problem of fashion waste and what you can do about it

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Decolonising our galleries: An introduction

How and why we are decolonising our museum

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Decolonising Scotland's design history

Scotland’s design history is underpinned by the exploitation of enslaved and colonised people around the world

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Conserving Mackintosh's Oak Room

Bringing a major lost work by Scotland’s most famous designer back to life

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RIBA + VitrA Talk: Yasmeen Lari

Hear Yasmeen Lari discuss her humanitarian work building zero-carbon structures

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Material Narratives with Dean Brown

Hear designer Dean Brown discuss his studio practice

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Quant at home

Your short and sweet memories of Mary Quant

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Beyond the gift shop: Making Glasgow Womens Library

Hear Dr Adele Patrick discuss how design has powered the development of Glasgow Women's Library

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Splendid isolation: Bernat Klein’s enviable home

Exploring late designer Bernat Klein’s beautiful home

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Sign of the times

The how and why of being a signwriter

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Webcomics: Cecilia Lee

Documenting our webcomics project through the medium of...well, a webcomic

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Webcomics: Holly Fishman Crook

Tower block residents get a shock notice about their homes, but there's a twist

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Webcomics: Riky Christian

Meet the Louse family, living on Pugger the dog

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Making V&A Dundee: Out of Minecraft

Building the museum in Minecraft was almost as challenging as it was in real life

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Cast from the past: Encounters with Carron Ironwork

The surprise and delight of seeing design objects ‘out in the wild’ in their natural habitats

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In conversation with Atelier E.B

Beca Lipscombe and Lucy McKenzie discuss their Faux Shop installation

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CrossVAD puzzle

Can you complete a crossword based on the museum?

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Scottish Design Icons: Orkney chair

Memories and feelings evoked by a simple chair

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Make Works: Simon Meek

Telling the stories behind our retail collaborations

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Webcomics: Gabriele Zubauskaite

How do you come to terms with your own impostor syndrome?

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Scottish Design Icons: Norah Geddes

Find out about the successful, practical and smart landscape designer

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Make Works: Lynne MacLachlan

Telling the stories behind our retail collaborations

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Webcomics: Emma Oosterhous

After years of slaying beasts and seducing their way out of trouble, our adventurers face one final test

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City of ghosts

A late night walk through Dundee sparks some memories

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Hello, Robot. flash fiction: Gaia

Harmful gender stereotyping in AI explored through conversations between a family and their virtual assistant

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Scottish Design Icons: Jessie M. King

What links William Morris, a fish that never swam and Guenevere...?

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Nicholas Daley: 7 Minutes

A glimpse into how a 7-minute fashion gets put together

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Hello, Robot. flash fiction: Hello

A conveyor belt machine tries to learn to communicate, despite its manufacturers

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Hello, Robot. flash fiction: Fred

Can a supermarket chatbot help a young woman in a not-so-distant dystopian future?

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Designing Hello, Robot.

How do you design an exhibition?

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Just add words

Creatively exploring museum collections through the written word

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Hello, Robot. flash fiction: Mr Fuzz

A grandmother and her grandchild bond over a shared interaction with a smart robot

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Seasonal Staples: Christmas jumpers

A different take on festive favourites

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Seasonal Staples: Wrapping paper

A different take on festive favourites

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Webcomics: Danny Barnfield

Follow Mòr, Beag and their trusty steed Cleas The Ram, as they endeavour to work together battling the evil Linton Worm!

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Seasonal Staples: Tree decoration

A different take on festive favourites

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Scottish Design Icons: Kaleidoscope

How the kaleidoscope can offer a new creative perspective

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Hello, Robot. A beginner’s guide

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Webcomics: Amy Galloway

A wander around Dundee, taking in the sights...

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How to stand out in a crowded design market

Hints and tips for getting noticed

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Everlasting bubbles

The inspiration behind our bubble-blowing robot

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Scottish Design Icons: Forth Bridge

This true icon of design and engineering is dizzyingly iconic

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Webcomics: Rayne Zaayman-Gallant

Two young people in love, each dealing with mental illness in different ways

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Making V&A Dundee: Consideration of light

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Scottish Design Icons: Bruce Mclean

Discover an oversized jug filled with drama, movement and extravagance

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Dundee Pride: Creating a creative identity

How to design a visual identity...or at least try

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Webcomics: Vincent Bell-Robertson

Will he escape with the money or does gravity have other plans?

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Videogames are a girl thing

A short extract from the interviews that feature within our Videogames show

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Pride and Protest: Doing it yourself

A series exploring the role played by design in protest materials

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Scottish Design Icons: Washing up

Kitchen gadgets aren't just for the back of your cupboard

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Make Works: Laura Spring

Telling the stories behind our exclusive retail collaborations

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Webcomics: Tony Holdsworth

A webcomic set on a space station...with a twist

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Scottish Design Icons: Draff

Innovative and sustainable design for the home as well as the museum

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Webcomics: Andrew Sztehlo

A webcomic inspired by Spanish artist Francisco Goya and his Black Paintings

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Making V&A Dundee: In ink and charcoal

A light and fluid interpretation of our hulking building

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Making V&A Dundee: A draw to artists

Our museum can be a challenge for sketchers and drawers trying to capture the architecture

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Make Works: Kate Colin

Telling the stories behind our exclusive retail collaborations

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Webcomics: Emma Canziani

A webcomic inspired by Ocean Liners, our first ever exhibition

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Scottish Design Icons: Patrick Geddes

Unlikely personal parallels found in an architectural plan from 1913

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Videogames Modding: Castle Smurfenstein to Jurassicraft

A look at how and why players alter the videogames they play

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Making V&A Dundee: A creative inspiration

Revisit the Star Wars-inspired video that went viral before we opened

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Making V&A Dundee: An artist’s museum

How our museum's arrival is reflected in an artist's own journey

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Making V&A Dundee: A photographic study

See the museum through a different lens

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Making V&A Dundee: Sing with dignity

Read the poem written by the choir who performed so beautifully during our opening weekend

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Scottish Design Icons: GB Ollivant Ltd

The impact even an unassuming object in the museum can have

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Make Works: Ark Colour Design

Telling the stories behind our exclusive retail collaborations

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Creative block: Changing attitudes to play

The origin of the educational toys that would revolutionise the industry

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Make Works: Tom Pigeon

Telling the stories behind our exclusive retail collaborations

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Plaything’s Progress: Part Two

How dynamic sound design is bringing Plaything to life

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From the Citizens Theatre to a galaxy far, far away…

How Star Wars and the cutting room of the Citizens Theatre are connected by two costume designers

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Scottish Design Icons: GameMaker Studio

How game development software removes some of the barriers to making videogames

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Make Works: Mackays

Telling the stories behind our exclusive retail collaborations

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Pack it up: building exhibitions and taking them apart

Discover the process behind bringing amazing exhibitions to life at the museum

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Plaything’s Progress: Part One

The first in our series of articles unpacking the game development process

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Scottish Design Icons: Christopher Kane

The sibling harmony behind the empowering fashion brand

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Made in Scotland: designing the Queen Mary

Find out more about the role Scotland played in the construction and design of the nation's favourite ship

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Scottish Design Relay: legacy in the making

How do you distil a six month national project into a focused exhibition?

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Beyond the glamour: propaganda and ocean liners

From poverty to colonialism, explore a darker side of ocean travel

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Scottish Design Icons: Dounreay

The Dounreay Nuclear Reactor was the world’s first fast nuclear reactor to supply energy to a national grid

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VADvent 2018: creating a Christmas mural

An insight into the design of our beautiful, festive Instagram illustration

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Make Works: Donna Wilson

Telling the stories behind our exclusive retail collaborations

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Make Works: DC Thomson

Telling the stories behind our exclusive retail collaborations

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Scottish Design Icons: Basil Spence

Work that makes you a household name isn't always safe from criticism

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Q&A with Maeve Redmond

Designer Maeve Redmond explores how her compelling graphic design piece came together

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Scottish Design Icons: Pringle knitwear

The pioneering technological innovation of Pringle

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Lusitania and the First World War

To commemorate the centenary of the First World War, we explore how the ocean liner Lusitania was both created and destroyed...

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Make Works: Edward Smith

Telling the stories behind our exclusive retail collaborations

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ST.MARTiiNS: matching music with cover art

How creative collaboration inspires Dundee duo ST.MARTiiNS

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Scottish Design Icons: Lemmings

One of the the most successful video games in the world was born in Dundee

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Star Wars: Attack of the Clothes

How costumes in a cinematic universe were inspired by vintage Paisley

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Scottish Design Galleries: a beginner's guide

Our Scottish Design Galleries explore Scotland’s unique design landscape, both historically and today

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Speedo: breaking records and taboos

The Racerback swimsuit made quite a splash in the 1920s

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Hand wash only: caring for Ayrshire needlework

Embroiderers stitched unique designs on a microscopic scale