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• Creating ‘The Red Forest’: a Gaelic stained glass commission in Glasgow

  Stained Glass Craft Fellow Gordon Muir reveals how he was involved in the creation of six beautiful Gaelic windows for a theatre in Glasgow.

• Discover four key traditional building skills at the Scottish Crannog Centre’s Iron Age Village

  Before the relaunch of the Scottish Crannog Centre’s Iron Age Village, we visited Loch Tay to meet our work party of Craft Fellows, who used traditional building skills alongside the centre’s staff to create the village.

• Capturing Scotland’s Heritage in 3D: the Fascinating Skills of Digital Documentation

  Digital Innovation Trainee Yueqian Wang shares key cutting-edge concepts used by the Digital Documentation team to digitally capture our heritage.

• What can builders of the past teach us about sustainable building methods?

  At its core, vernacular building is about local knowledge and local materials. Our Vernacular Buildings Craft Fellow, Ross, shares his experience of working on vernacular buildings across Scotland and explains how they could help modern building practices become more sustainable.

• Why building conservation is important for the future

  Scotland has approximately 450,000 traditionally-made buildings. Discover the principles behind looking after them, and why it’s important.

• Designing for health: architecture in older buildings

  Find out how health was historically taken into account in the design of buildings and why it’s now more relevant than ever.