Creelmaking Workshop

There will be an opportunity to learn the ancient skill of creelmaking at a workshop in Uig in the near future.

In the past traditional creels were plentiful in the villages in the Island of Lewis. The creels were used in each home for carrying home the peats from the peatbank, taking seaweed from the shore, hauling gravel and stones and many other tasks.

Today the creel is symbolic of past generations who worked hard to eke a living from the land. Nowadays very few people have the skill to make the creels, as the knowledge was passed down through the generations and taught by example.
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The event is sponsored by Adult Learning, Community Education, Comhairle nan Eilean Siar.

If you are interested in this ancient skill of creelmaking please contact Graeme Miller on 01851 707457.

Nigel Scott
Communications Officer
Comhairle nan Eilean Siar

Tel: 01851 709389 (Work)
Tel: 07884 236103 (Mobile)
email: nscott@cne-siar.gov.uk