Designers

ART PEWTER

Art Pewter is based in the Scottish town of East Kilbride . The company makes a wide variety of products including jewellery and Highland wear accessories. Included in their range of jewellery are many Celtic pieces that have a continuous interwoven design that symbolizes the hope of everlasting life. The pewter jewellery made by this company is given a tarnish free plated finish, which as well as adding to its beauty, makes it very durable. In our opinion this company offer the wearer of their jewellery a product that is both good quality and good value and is likely to be well admired.

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FAIR ISLE SILVER COMPANY

The Fair Isles are off the north coast of Scotland and lie between Orkney and Shetland. This small company designs and produces beautiful jewelry in its premises adjacent to the Fair Isle South Lighthouse Tower . The inspiration for their jewellery comes mainly from the land and sea in this remote part of Scotland and the jewellery they produce ranges in style form subtle and understated to bold and stunning.

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PEWTERMILL  CRAFTS

Pewtermill Crafts is a Scottish company and is based in Ayrshire. All of the products from this company are beautifully designed and are of good quality. Their range of products includes quaichs, photograph frames, and stem vases as well as beautiful belt buckles and kilt pins for Highland wear..

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HEATHERGEMS

Made from natural heather stems

Heathergem jewellery is painstakingly handmade from the gnarled-like stems of heather - a visually striking common Scottish plant renowned for its rich purple bloom. .

Heather Gems have been created for more than 20 years in the picturesque town of Pitlochry right in the heart of the stunningly scenic Central Highlands of Scotland . .

The location is ideal as the surrounding hills provide an excellent source of our raw material..

The heather used is much too mature to provide any nutrition for wildlife and is pulled in an environmentally-friendly manner which helps promotes the growth of new heather. The stems are dried, shotblasted to remove the bark, and dyed various colours using natural dyes..

Stems of different colours are then mixed and compressed into a block - and 80 tons of pressure is required to compress the block of stems.. The block is then sliced and individual pieces are cut, shaped, honed and filled by highly skilled craft workers before being lacquered to give the distinctive final finish..

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HJALTASTEYN

Hjaltasteyn (an abbreviation of old Norse for Shetland Stone) was started in 1968 and, in it’s infancy, polished Shetland stones. Local artist Rosalyn Thompson, who was born on the island, acquired the business in 1991 and is inspired by Shetland’s rich history, which includes the Picts, Vikings, and Celts, to create her wonderful designs. Using traditional methods Rosalyn makes jewellery that is both delicate and beautiful and as each piece is handmade no two pieces will be exactly the same, offering the wearer something quite unique.

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MITHRIL JEWELRY

Mithril Jewellery is a small Glasgow based company that was established in 1988 by Russell Caldwell. Russell trained in Glasgow and has completed various courses in jewellery design and manufacturing. He makes beautiful handcrafted jewellery, much of which is inspired by the ancient illustrations in Celtic manuscripts.

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ORTAK

Ortak Jewelry is made in the Orkney Islands that lie a few miles off the north coast of Scotland . The company is based in the Royal and Ancient Burgh of Kirkwall, which is the capital of the islands. Ortak, which was founded over thirty years ago, and has grown significantly since its creation, manufactures quality jewellery that is worn and admired worldwide.

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SCOTTISH GOLDSMITHS

Scottish Goldsmiths, who have a passion about maintaining traditional jewellery making skills, produce their jewellery from premises in the south east of Scotland . They produce fine quality jewellery in Platinum, Gold and Silver and also set many of the designs they make with precious stones. The designs from this company include Mackintosh and Celtic as well as more modern styles.

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SHEILA FLEET

With a passion for her island environment Sheila creates her original designs reflecting nature’s wonderful sea, sky and landscape colours. Orkney’s history and folklore are also a rich medium for her inspiration.

She feels her designs take on an energy while in the research and development process. Developing designs which are a meaningful expression of her chosen subject is very important to her eventual creation.

Following her graduation from Edinburgh College of Art she worked 26 years as a designer in the trade before setting up on her own in 1993.

Throughout her career she has won many design awards in both Britain and Europe . However Sheila feels the challenge is always in what lies ahead and with lots of new ideas ready to develop she will continue to build on her range of jewellery designs.

Collections

Sheila’s designs are recognised as having a unique collectable Northern style, perhaps even Scandinavian in influence as the Orkney Islands were once linked historically and geographically. Orcadians have a strong independent feeling of their island identity.

Each design carries Sheila’s origination makers punch mark, SD (Sheila Dearness being her maiden name). All pieces of jewellery that are required to have a hallmark are independently marked for fineness and are assayed at Edinburgh Assay Office.

In her country workshop a small vibrant team work hard to produce Orkney’s premier jewellery. Each piece of jewellery comes boxed with design origination card.

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SHETLAND JEWELLERY

Shetland Jewellery operates from a small factory in the Shetland Islands which lie about 100 miles off the Northern coast of Scotland.

The workshop is set beside a sea loch which abounds in wildlife especially during the summer months. Arctic terns and other seabirds hover just outside and wild otters are often seen from our windows.

Shetland Jewellery was founded by Jack Rae in 1953, and now employs about 12 craftsmen and women all of whom have been trained in the art of jewellery manufacture.

Each piece is made from start to finish by the same worker ensuring quality and job satisfaction.

The jewellery they produce includes a range of Celtic designs as well as designs inspired by the “Glasgow Girls” who were a group of women artists that played a major part in the development of the “Glasgow Style” around the turn of the twentieth century.

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THE JEWELLERY HOUSE (TJH Ltd )

The Jewellery House is based in Dublin in Ireland and has wide variety of jewelry styles including Celtic, Claddagh, Children of Lir, and Inspire ranges. TJH have their own in-house designers and goldsmiths and the jewellery they make has a high standard of quality. Whether it is a delicate piece or a bold and more substantial piece they have all received the same care in design and attention to detail in the finished piece.
                                                                   

THE SGIAN DUBH COMPANY

The Sgian Dubh Company are a Scottish company that manufacture a range of sgian dubhs in a variety of materials.  They have been manufacturing sgian dubhs in Scotland for over 25 years and have developed an extensive range over this period of time.  The Sgian Dubh company are safety concious and supply all their sgian dubs with a blunt edge to the stainless steel blades.  This company have, in our opinion, taken a traditional accessory of Scottish Highland Dress to a level that suits all ages and tastes with a range of both contemporary and traditional designs.