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Isle of Eigg

Eigg Craft Shop

The island makers' cooperative at the pier, with Eigg crafts, artwork, knitwear, books and maps.

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Welcome

The Isle of Eigg Craft Shop is the island's crafters' and makers' cooperative, in the An Laimhrig building right where you land at the pier, next to the Isle of Eigg Shop and the Galmisdale Bay Café.

It is a bright room of timber floors and shelves, and the place to take a little of Eigg home.

There are Eigg mugs and T-shirts, home-made jam and hand-made soap, edible seaweed gathered on the shore and bluebell seed from the crofts. The island has drawn many artists, and the walls carry their photographs, watercolours, pastels, oils, felt and etchings, with cards galore. Look too for hand-knitted hats and socks, willow baskets made on Eigg, and CDs by the traditional bands who come to play. Books and guides explain the island's history and geology, and the volunteers behind the counter will gladly suggest where to go. From May to September it is open every day.

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Before you go

From late March or early April, when the CalMac summer timetable starts, it opens on ferry days, Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday; from May to September every day, 11am to 4.30 or 5pm; then on ferry days to the end of the October holidays.

Closed in winter, though it will open on request.

Getting there
CalMac ferry from Mallaig; the Sheerwater from Arisaig, April to September. No visitor cars.
Where
An Laimhrig, at the pier.
May to September
Daily, 11:00 to 16:30 or 17:00.
Spring and autumn
Ferry days only.

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Where it is

The Pier, Isle of Eigg, PH42 4RL.

Close byBy the pier.
  1. Tables by a wide window looking out over the rocks and the bay.Galmisdale Bay Café & BarThe café and bar at the head of Eigg's piers, with homemade food, big windows over the bay and island beer.Under a mile 1 min by road
  2. GalmisdaleGalmisdaleThe bay where you land on Eigg, with the ferry pier, the old pier and An Laimhrig, the island's community hub.Under a mile 1 min by road
  3. A hire bike leaning on a grassy bank on the moor, the ridge of An Sgùrr beyond a conifer wood.Eigg AdventuresBike, e-bike and kayak hire from the Adventure Shed at the pier, with maps, helmets and a safety talk.Under a mile 1 min by road
  4. An SgùrrAn SgùrrThe mile-long pitchstone ridge over the south of Eigg, the largest of its kind in Europe, climbed from the north to 393 metres.Under a mile 1 min by road
  5. GrulinGrulinThe ruins of two townships under the southern cliffs of An Sgùrr, cleared for sheep in 1853.Under a mile 1 min by road
  6. Grulin BothyGrulin BothyThe one roofed house left in the cleared township of Grulin on Eigg, a whitewashed shepherd's cottage under An Sgùrr.Under a mile 1 min by road
Directions
Curved white sand bay meets turquoise water below coastal hillsAttractionsSanna Bay12 miles

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Stay nearby

Places to stay near the craft shop, and when each is next free.

The house's gabled wing with a decked terrace and two chairs, solar panels along the roof, seen across a grassy slope.Borradill House
  • Sleeps 6
  • In Glenborrodale
  • 17 miles from the craft shop
Free 22–25 NovBorradill Cottage, ArdnamurchanBorradill Cottage
  • Sleeps 4
  • In Glenborrodale
  • 17 miles from the craft shop
Free 15–18 NovCoruisk House's white harled exterior shows dormer windows and clustered chimneys against a grey sky.Coruisk House
  • Sleeps 4
  • In Elgol
  • 19 miles from the craft shop
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