Filter to

Beloved by style icons from Grace Kelly to the Duchess of Cambridge, cashmere depends on three components for its production: the goat, the water and the artisan. In this illustrated volume, Lynne McCrossan explains how makers across Scotland employ centuries-old practices to craft clothing for fashion powerhouses including Hermes and Dior and offers advice on creating a cashmere capsule wardrobe.

Slightly off-mint.

In his idiosyncratic dialect, playwright and poet McLellan recalls a childhood spent in the Clyde valley in the early 20th century. His tales evoke a bygone era, of fishing for mennans, strictly observing the Sabbath and the perils of scrumping for apples.

Slightly off-mint.

For well over a century, the story of the West Lothian village Philpstoun was deeply linked to the shale industry. This carefully researched local history recalls life and times in an era of community spirit and village pride, with descriptions and photos of Rows houses, horse-drawn grocers' vans and the yearly summer galas which crowned a village queen.

Slightly off-mint.

Slightly off-mint.