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A willow basketry class at the Scottish Craft School, eight people smiling with the baskets they have made, bundles of willow on the floor.
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The Scottish Craft School

A craft school on Dunblane High Street teaching heritage crafts by hand, from willow baskets to bookbinding, in one-day workshops and week-long courses.

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The Scottish Craft School teaches handmade crafts in a bright, spacious studio on Dunblane High Street, in the same building as the Craft Central gallery.

Its classes run from one-day workshops to week-long courses, and they are for everyone from complete beginners to established professional makers. The focus is on heritage and sustainable crafts and on making by hand: willow basketry, wooden spoon carving, bookbinding, embroidery and goldwork, weaving, printmaking, papercutting, crochet and felting, taught by makers who come from all over the country.

A one-day class makes a good day out, and a longer course can be the reason for a craft holiday in Dunblane. Classes are booked on the school's own website, or in person at the desk in the gallery, and gift vouchers are sold too. The school was founded by Rebecca Wilson, who runs it. Dunblane station is about three minutes' walk away, with the free Millrow car park directly behind the building.

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Before you go

One-day workshops to week-long courses in heritage crafts, for complete beginners to professional makers.

Where
Craft Central, Riverview, High Street, Dunblane, FK15 0EE.
Booking
Each class on the school's website, or in person at the desk in the gallery.
Gift vouchers
Sold on the school's website.
Parking
Millrow car park, free, directly behind, with disabled spaces.
Train
About three minutes' walk from Dunblane station.
Email
hello@scottishcraftschool.com
Phone
01786 643329

Opening hours

Their website
Monday
Closed
Tuesday
10am–5pm
Wednesday
10am–5pm
Thursday
10am–2.30pm
Friday
10am–5pm
Saturday
10am–5pm
Sunday
11am–4pm

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A bookbinding class at the Scottish Craft School, a tutor stitching a small book beside three people at a long wooden table of papers and tools.
Did you know

Beginners to professionals.

The classes run from a single day to a whole week, and are meant for everyone from complete beginners to established professional makers.

A carved wooden spoon beside a hook knife, wood shavings and pencil sketches of spoons, from a spoon carving class.
Did you know

Heritage crafts.

The school keeps to heritage and sustainable crafts and skilled making by hand: willow basketry, spoon carving, bookbinding, weaving and printmaking among them.

A goldwork embroidery sampler of gold threads and yellow felt shapes on linen, with stork scissors, from an embroidery class.
Did you know

A craft holiday.

Dunblane is on the main line, three minutes' walk from the studio, so a longer course can be a holiday reached by train from most of Scotland.

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Where it is

On the High Street in Dunblane, in the Craft Central building, about halfway up on the left.

Close byThe places nearest the school, round Dunblane and Bridge of Allan.
  1. Craft Central GalleryCraft Central GalleryA gallery and shop on Dunblane High Street selling crafts made by hand in Scotland by the tutors of the two craft and jewellery schools in the same building.Under a mile as the crow flies
  2. The Fotheringham Gallery's blue shopfront and flowers in Bridge of Allan.The Fotheringham GalleryA gallery of contemporary Scottish painting and jewellery in Bridge of Allan, showing a long list of artists since 1997.2 miles as the crow flies
  3. Uncommon Life's white shopfront at 61 Henderson Street, Bridge of Allan.Uncommon LifeA lifestyle shop on Henderson Street in Bridge of Allan, with Scandinavian-style homewares, bath things, stationery and books.2 miles as the crow flies
  4. CromlixCromlixA Victorian mansion on its own estate at Kinbuck, by Dunblane, run as a country house hotel by Kim and Andy Murray.3 miles as the crow flies
  5. Doune CastleDoune CastleA courtyard castle of the late 1300s above the River Teith, built for the Duke of Albany and filmed for Monty Python, Game of Thrones and Outlander.3 miles as the crow flies
  6. Wallace Monument tower rising above snow-covered trees and hills near StirlingWallace MonumentThe tall Victorian tower on the Abbey Craig above Stirling, with the Wallace Sword inside and a view from the Crown after 246 steps.4 miles as the crow flies
  7. Deanston DistilleryDeanston DistilleryA Highland distillery in a cotton mill of 1785 on the River Teith by Doune, making all its own power from the river.4 miles as the crow flies
  8. A framed drawing of Stirling above tins of biscuits.Made in StirlingA shop and gallery on King Street selling the work of local artists and makers, with exhibitions and workshops.5 miles as the crow flies
Directions
The shop floor at WoodWinters in Bridge of Allan: wooden shelves of wine all round and whisky beyond, with wine boxes on a table in the middle.ShoppingWoodWinters2.3 miles
A lion walking through long grass.AttractionsBlair Drummond Safari & Adventure Park3.2 miles
Airthrey Castle above a lawn at the University of Stirling, walkers passing in the sun.AttractionsUniversity of Stirling3.4 miles
The coffee house's glass front and benches.CafeLegends at the Monument3.7 miles
The white trig point on the summit of Dumyat, the Forth winding away east across the flat carse below.WalksDumyat4.0 miles
The stone cairn and carved eagle at Blairmains, Dumyat behind.ShoppingBlairmains Farm Shop4.1 miles
Inside the Smiddy farm shop, stalls of produce under timber roof beams.ShoppingBlair Drummond Smiddy Farmshop4.1 miles
Caged stone monument labelled "The Beheading Stone" on a grassy hilltopAttractionsBeheading Stone4.2 miles
The crow-stepped gables and corner turrets of a royal palace glow in evening light, a stone stair and older tower standing beside it.AttractionsStirling Castle4.4 miles

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Places to stay near the Scottish Craft School, and when each is next free.

A grand stone mansion with multiple gables and chimneys stands behind a lawn set with wicker chairs, seen through overhanging leaves.Cromlix
  • To stay
  • In Kinbuck
  • 3 miles from the Scottish Craft School
Check datesA landscape view of Whitehill on its hill: the steadings, the farmhouse and its red-roofed wing in low sun across a field of young crop.Whitehill Farm House
  • Sleeps 8
  • In Auchterarder
  • 13 miles from the Scottish Craft School
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