Blog / Factories

Factory Friday : Risotto Studio

Risotto Studio's Gabriella DiTano on how she fell in love with Riso Printing, and why she reckons this printing process is not a fad. Read more

Factory Friday : George Thompson

Woodworker, cabinetmaker, art fabricator; George Thompson, tells us about how he got into making furniture and what it's like to work with artists like Martin Boyce. Read more

Ten fabricators you should know about in Scotland

Fabricators are those people that will build you ‘almost anything’. Primarily working on one-off projects, their skills are an extension of cabinet making and joinery; mixed together with whatever process is needed for the job - be it welding, painting, casting or sculpting. Read more

Factory Friday : Old School Fabrications

Makers of "almost anything", Old School Fabrication's Neville and Scott tell us about why they started an art fabrication business together, the projects they've loved working on and why they've realised that "the harder you work, the luckier you get." Read more

Factory Friday; Shilasdair Yarns

Shilasdair Yarn's Eva tells us about how she took inspiration from the vegetable-dyed rugs she saw in Turkey in the sixties and started her own natural dying company on the Isle of Skye. Read more

Factory Friday: Kalopsia Collective

Kalopsia Collective tell us about their new makerspace, The Facility, which provides textiles micro manufacturing to Scottish Designers Read more

Factory Friday: Piccolo Press

Colin Kirkwood at Piccolo Press, speaks to us about the letterpress trade, "industrial craftsmanship" and what it is like to run a printing press in Nairn. Read more

Hospitalfield in Industry

What happens when you put screenprinters in a resin factory, or take a ceramicist to a stonemasons? Read more

Factory Friday: MAKlab Textiles

For this week's Factory Friday, we've interviewed Iona Barker, the technician at MAKlab Textiles; an open access textiles workshop within MAKlab that we've just added to Make Works. Read more

Factory Friday: Hunter Press

Lyndsey from Hunter Press tells Make Works how an impulse purchase led her into the craft of Letterpress. Read more

Factory Friday: McRostie

Colin from McRostie tells Make Works about how his appreciation of leather as a material, drew him from client to owner and maker. Read more

Update: Suggest a Factory

You can now contribute information about local manufacturers, factories, makers and material suppliers for Make Works. Read more