Exquisite silk dress on loan to Historylinks to be featured in Highland Threads exhibition
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Two Sutherland museums are taking part in online exhibition Highland Threads which launches next month.
Historylinks Museum at Dornoch and Strathnaver Museum at Bettyhill have both contributed a historic item of clothing for the exhibition which is focussing on textiles.
Historylinks has put forward a silk brocade dress thought to have been designed and made by James Lehman in Spitalfields, London, in about 1719.
The dress has been passed down the family of Katherine Gray of Overskibo, Dornoch, and is on loan to the museum from an Australian branch of the family.
Strathnaver Museum is submitting as its exhibit a full piping outfit worn by Willie MacDonald of Gruids during World War I.
Highland Threads is being organised by Museum and Heritage Highland with funding from the National Lottery Heritage Fund Resilience Fund.
Fourteen museums are taking part including Ullapool Museum and Tain Through Time.
A spokesman for the organisers said it had been conceived to support museums, which have lost revenue due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The spokesman said: “Driving new and existing audiences to our museums whether they are open or closed help find new ways of creating income streams.”
Highland Threads can be found at www.highlandthreads.co.uk from April 1.
