Join us for an evening with Professor Margaret Bennett, who will share a talk on rope-making and other traditional uses of plants in the Highlands and Islands.
Margaret’s talk will expand on fascinating localised examples and research from the concepts within Caroline Dear’s gallery exhibition, String/Lines. String / Lines explores the wider world of string, unravelling information from; the earliest archaeological evidence of string dated to 47,000 years ago, cultural stories, historical myth and from contemporary vestiges.
Originally from Skye, Prof. Margaret Bennett has had a lifelong interest in Folklore and traditional songs. Author of many books and articles, her publications on the study of plants include “Plant Lore in Gaelic Scotland” in R. Pankhurst, Flora of the Outer Hebrides, British Museum of Natural History, (1991), “The Folklore of Plants in Scotland”, in Plants and People: Economic Botany in Northern Europe, 800-1800, ed J.H. Dickson and R.R. Mill, Edinburgh (1994), as well as contributions to the Dictionary of the Folklore of Plants in Britain and Ireland, ed. Roy Vickery. London: British Museum of Natural History (1996).
All are welcome to join us in Taigh Chearsabhagh on Friday 27th September, at 7pm. Please book your ticket below using our Pay What You Decide ticket structure, where you simply choose which ticket price you would like to pay.
Image credit: Caroline Dear.