Hand carved Hebridean earrings on Sterling Silver fittings carved and polished slowly in the Outer Hebrides
Some lovely new earrings up on the site..
The #IsleofHarris to more or less anywhere on Earth
#earrings #jewellery #scottishjewellery #highlands #IsleofSkye #IsleofLewis #Glasgow #Edinborough #Aberdeen #Inverness #UKMakers #Geology #Gneiss #Tartain #Iona #Silver
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Slow carved Lewisian Gneiss Vessel with a deeply tooled diamond ground finish. Over 3 billion years in the making. Carved in the Outer Hebrides.
Isn’t Lewisian Gneiss amazing!
#gneiss #gneissthings #gneiss-things #Scotland #highlands #islands #scottishislands #IsleofHarris #IsleofSkye #IsleofLewis #Uist #NorthUist #SouthUist #Barra #Benbecula #Scalpay #Seilebost #geology #stonecarving #stone #rock #nature #sculpture
Astonishing #Neolithic find
In the #OuterHebrides
Well.. in the #Gneiss Things workshop anyway..
I totally forgot I’d #carved this!
Maybe I’ll make some more 🤔
#archaeology #Orkney #Scotland #history #stonetools #ancient #lost #treasure #madeinscotland #IsleofHarris #IsleofSkye #IsleofLewis #axe
Twin Tea-lights carved from Lewisian Gneiss
Functional forms in natural materials
#gneiss #stone #carving #bowl #sculpture #geology
#outerhebrides #isleofharris #isleoflewis #uig #northuist #benbecula #southuist #handcarved #gneissthings
#orkney #shetland #edinborough #glasgow #seilebost #tealight
Form follows function
#Keystones
#gneiss
#marble
#geology
#keyring
#landscape
#keyrings
#nature
#handmade
#earth
#grounded
#home
#hotel
#architectire
#carving ~ a question of form and balance
#basalt #gneiss #gneissthings #IsleofHarris #outerhebrides #IsleofLewis #WesternIsles #Scotland #Edinborough #Glasgow #IsleofSkye #carving #geology #stone #rock #Uig #NorthUist #Barra #Iona #nc500 #highlands #OuterHebrides #Seilebost #Luskentyre #landscape
Our practice is rooted in landscape
In this case
Under storms
& In colour
Mixed media paintings including ground stone by Suzanne Lambert
Available online and in the #gneissthings studio on the #IsleofHarris
#painting #art #landscape #gneiss #IsleofLewis #isleofSkye
#OuterHebrides #WesternIsles
#gneisscube sets
Whisky on ‘the’ rocks
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#isleofharris #isleoflewis #isleofskye #scotland #scottishhighlands #gneiss #geology #whisky #gin #stones #handcarved #gneisscube #whiskystones #singlemalt #hearach #isla #skye #edinborough #orkney #shetland #tartan #rock
Delicate hand carved stone earrings made from the #landscape
#earings #jewellery #silver
#gneiss #gneissthings #isleofharris #outerhebrides #isleoflewis #westernisles #scotland #edinborough #glasgow #isleofskye #carving #geology #stone #rock #uig #northuist #barra #iona #nc500 #highlands #gift #art
#gneissthings #Hebridean #geology #neclace
Each bead is cut, shaped, drilled and polished by hand before braided cords and hand carved toggles are added to complete the string.
Isn’t #Harris amazing!
#gneiss #rock #stone #beads #scotland #heritage #jewellery #westernisles #isleoflewis #skye
Some new pendant forms carved through the darkness of winter-
Feeling like the beginning of spring
#gneiss #gneissthings #isleofharris #outerhebrides #isleoflewis #westernisles #scotland #edinborough #glasgow #isleofskye #carving #geology #stone #rock #uig #northuist #barra #iona #nc500 #highlands
A Tea-light carved from Lewisian Gneiss
Functional forms in natural materials
#gneiss #stone #carving #bowl #sculpture #geology
#outerhebrides #isleofharris #isleoflewis #uig #northuist #benbecula #southuist #handcarved #gneissthings
#orkney #shetland #edinborough #glasgow #seilebost #tealight
Lewisian gneiss carved stone bowl
Deeply hollowed from in one of natures hardest materials
#gneiss #stone #carving #bowl #sculpture #geology
#outerhebrides #isleofharris #isleoflewis #uig #northuist #benbecula #southuist #handcarved #gneissthings
#orkney #shetland #edinborough #glasgow #seilebost
Hand carved traditional stone toggles
Fastenings from the Neolithic just as valid today
#gneiss #stone #fastenings #toggle
#outerhebrides #isleofharris #isleoflewis #uig #northuist #benbecula #southuist #handcarved #gneissthings
#orkney #shetland #edinborough #glasgow #seilebost
The quest for the perfect #gneisscube continues
Whisky on ‘the’ rocks
These are the finest whisky stones on earth.
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#isleofharris #isleoflewis #isleofskye #scotland #scottishhighlands #gneiss #geology #whisky #gin #stones #handcarved
New year - New logo
Carved slate slab sign at Gneiss Studio in Harris
#gneiss #outerhebrides #isleofharris #isleoflewis #gneiss-things #isleofskye #nc500 #scotland #scottishhighlands #glencoe #edinborough #glasgow #northuist #uig #barra #benbecula #southuist #westernisles #geology #carving
It wouldn't be a holiday to Assynt without some serious rockery. Here we have the Moine Thrust exposure by Loch Glencoul and Loch Eileanach surrounded by wonderful Scourian gneiss and amphibolite dykes.
#assynt #geology #moinethrust #gneiss #landscape #nature #drone #photography #scotland #geopark
It wouldn't be a holiday to Assynt without some serious rockery. Here we have the Moine Thrust exposure by Loch Glencoul and Loch Eileanach surrounded by wonderful Scourian gneiss and amphibolite dykes.
#assynt #geology #moinethrust #gneiss #landscape #nature #drone #photography #scotland #geopark
Wooded island on red-sand colored rock as seen from a motorboat
Group of people on an island look at a rock as one person looks out on the water with binoculars
Group of people walk across a rocky area with some vegetation towards a larger erratic boulder on the island’s edge.
Saw some nice #gneiss out here today on the #ThimbleIslands
Thanks to @yalewhc.bsky.social @paulsabin.bsky.social for coordinating the trip! #envhum #envhist #Connecticut #LongIslandSound
#LewisianGneiss heavy duty vessels with gouged tooled finishes.
Working with #gneiss stone is methodical and challenging. We are blessed to do want we love.
#isleofharris #isleoflewis #outerhebrides #westernisles #scotland #isleofskys #scottishhighlands #orkney
#shetland #mull #arran #stornoway
Isn’t Lewisian Gneiss amazing!
#gneiss #gneissthings #gneiss-things #scotland #highlands #islands #scottishislands #isleofharris #isleofskye #isleoflewis #uist #northuist #southuist #barra #benbecula #scalpay #seilebost #geology #stonecarving #stone #rock #nature #sculpture
Resharing this #RockinTuesday - these images are illustrations for my essay on Idaho's oldest rocks in Seasons of the 208 Magazine issue #2, hitting local shelves today.
#geology #idaho #idahogeology #schist #gneiss #precambrian
It was annotations like these which helped Charles Lapworth solve the Highlands controversy. In 1882, he began #mapping Durness and Eriboll. He was familiar with the latest #research in the Alps, and realised that the superposition of #metamorphosed #gneiss above #limestone was due to thrusting!
A shapely boulder, possibly an erratic, on the Isle of Harris in early spring. The view was gneiss.
#scotland #landscapephotography #gneiss #highlands
Oldest #rock in the U.S. is a #Michigander, coming in at 3.8 billion (with a B) years old! #Gneiss!
#Geology #Geochronology #Michigan
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Detail image of schist outcrop in northern Idaho. Rock is primarily yellow-orange with darker banding visible, with some bands compressed into wavelike pattern by metamorphic processes. A smattering of pale green lichen is visible.
Detail of highly metamorphosed rock outcrop in northern Idaho. Rock is mostly black and white in a sort of reticulated pattern, with two reddish inclusins (garnets I think? ) visible. Mineral specks in the black rock can be seen reflecting more vividly colored glints of orange and blue if one looks closely.
Detail of gneiss boulder in northern Idaho. The rock is full of contrasting bands of dark gray and white, with the banding folded by metamorphic processes into an overall L-shape.
Detail of roadcut in northern Idaho. Top right of image is mostly full of dark black stone (amphibolite?) marbled with veins of white, while lower left is mainly banded schist with an overall rusty hue, and with obvious folding and boudinage. Some vertical lines of dynamite drill holes from the road cut are visible in the scene.
#RockinTuesday Last week I took a little tour to photograph some of the oldest rocks in Idaho. Here are four details from the Priest River Metamorphic Core Complex, with ages from around 1.6 to 2.6 billion years.
#geology #idaho #idahogeology #idahopanhandle #schist #gneiss
#lewisiangneiss is a wonderful material to work with. Here in a fabulous local wall.
Thankfully diamond tools enable us to produce small delicate forms from this mass of metamorphic marvel and we pride ourselves on being the first to carve earrings from stone more typically used as aggregate #gneiss
