© Moray Firth Gansey Project January 2012
This project is being part-financed by the Heritage Lottery Fund, and by the Scottish
Government and The European Community Rural Aberdeenshire, Highland and Moray LEADER
2007 – 2013 Programmes.
Auditorium
10.00-10.50 Intro and keynote:
Moray Firth Gansey Project
Refreshments
11.10-11.50 Talk : Di Gilpin: Adding knit to contemporary fashion
11.50-12.30 Talk;
Penelope Hemingway: River ganseys
12.30-13.10 Talk: George Bethune: From the land to the sea and beyond; one family's
150 year sojorn in The Fishings
Lunch
14.15-14.55 Talk: Dr Malcolm Smith: Gansey patterns and cultural evolution
14.55-15.30 Talk: Anne Coombs: Herring girls
Refreshments
15.45-16.25 Talk: Louise Tait: Gansey designs in glass “following a pattern in life
and death”
16.25-17.05 Talk: Dr Elizabeth Lovick: Orkney’s forgotten ganseys
Seminar Room
11.00-13.00 Workshop:
Beth Brown-Reinsel: Gansey beginnings
Lunch
13.45-16.45 Workshop:
Beth Brown-Reinsel: Shoulder treatments
Lecture Theatre
11.00-14.45
Workshop:
Dr Elizabeth Lovick: Designing and using gansey motifs
(30 minute lunch break at 12.30)
14.55-16.45 Workshop:
Paul Dodwell: Gussets and charts
Buffet for all speakers, workshops tutors Saturday Evening Buffet ticket holders,
All-inclusive weekend ticket holders and traders.
18.00-20.00 Fashion Show
Auditorium
10.00-10.50 Talk: Dr Annie Shaw: Seamless old and new
10.50-11.30 Talk : Betsan Corkhill: Knitting as a therapeutic tool
Refreshments
11.45-12.25 Talk; Jo Murray: Presentation / Display / Window Dressing
12.25-13.05 Talk: Dr Elizabeth Lovick: Gutters’ ganseys
Lunch
14.00-14.15 Talk: Grace Main: Therapy classes
14.15-14.50 Talk: Deb Gillanders: Propagansey (at the gansey stand)
Refreshments
15.10-16.10 Keynote and close:
Margaret Bennett: Customs and traditions, lore and language of the fishing communities
Seminar Room
10.00-13.00 Workshop:
Di Gilpin: Embellishments and finishing techniques for the professional look
Lunch
14.00-15.00 Workshop:
Introduction from Hi-Arts & Workshop: Pricing your work (to be delivered by one of
HI-Arts’ Makers TBC)
Lecture Theatre
09.30-12.30 Wiorkshop:
Beth Brown-Reinsel: Designing ganseys
Lunch
13.30-15.00 Drop-in / surgery Beth Brown-Reinsel
