Top Things to do in Ross and Cromarty
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Top 10 Gift & Specialty Shops in Ross and Cromarty, Scotland
Discover the best top things to do in Ross and Cromarty, United Kingdom including Patchwork Paradise Vintage Tea Room & Gift Shop, Highflight Book Shop, Panacea...lotions,potions and more, Mama Gail's Something Sweet, The Emporium Bookshop, The Lochcarron Weavers Shop, The Cheese House, The Tain Pottery, Glasstorm, Summer Isles Smokehouse. Altandhu..
Restaurants in Ross and Cromarty
1. Patchwork Paradise Vintage Tea Room & Gift Shop
Overall Ratings
5.0 based on 21 reviews
Gorgeous Small Vintage Tea Room Full of Colour with proper china, Desserts, Chocolate Fudge and handmade gifts from around Scotland and the UK. We also sell a fabulous selection of fabrics and craft kits plus we run gorgeous workshops teaching everything from lampshade making to dressmaking. Scrumptious high tea and ever changing handmade items to feast your eyes on.
2. Highflight Book Shop
Overall Ratings
5.0 based on 4 reviews
Specialist second hand book shop
3. Panacea...lotions,potions and more
4. Mama Gail's Something Sweet
Overall Ratings
5.0 based on 1 reviews
5. The Emporium Bookshop
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 36 reviews
Reviewed By 217peterm - Scottish Borders, United Kingdom
Nicely laid out and easily coping with social distancing, providing sanitiser and distancing. The shop had a very eclectic and interesting range of products and is well worth visiting
6. The Lochcarron Weavers Shop
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 51 reviews
The Lochcarron Weavers Shop is in Wester Ross. This is a retail outlet for Scottish made goods. Situated on the banks of picturesque Loch Carron in Wester Ross, Lochcarron Weavers has to boast one of the most scenic locations for a shop. When you step inside our quintessentially Scottish shop you can find a selection of tartans, luxury knitwear, kilts, tweed clothing all complemented beautifully with just the right accessories. You can buy these top quality Scottish products in the finest natural fibres including cashmere, lamora, mohair and lambswool.
Reviewed By sarahhN2507OG
We were delighted to visit this shop during our recent stay in Lochcarron. This is a delightful store with a very comprehensive range of high quality locally weaved and knitted products. The store was well layed out and the staff were very friendly and accommodating. This is certainly worth a visit.
7. The Cheese House
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 40 reviews
Reviewed By 301linsaym
An absolutely fabulous cheese shop. Quirky with it being in old police station with cell still be used . The owner is great and spent lots of time talking to us and cheese is delicious Def worth stopping by
8. The Tain Pottery
Overall Ratings
4.0 based on 9 reviews
A working pottery specialising in hand made and hand painted ceramics. Visitors are welcome to tour the studios and observe the various making processes; our friendly staff will be pleased to answer any questions concerning manufacture. Our well stocked shop offers the full Tain Pottery range and the unique opportunity to browse our discounted ‘seconds’.
Reviewed By davidharrylarder - Retford, United Kingdom
UNIQUE TAIN POTTERY HAS ARISEN OUT Of CREATIVE PASSION & HARD WORK My wife has always liked pottery. So when she spotted a rather small sign leading to a tiny road off the A9 going north to the Highlands of SCOTLAND, we had to stop. Nearby the village of Tain you will find a unique pottery. At first sight it looks to be a dump. The old farm buildings which house it have had to be adapted, waterproofed and gradually grown from the one barn into what has become quite a major workshop. This is a true family business and I could tell that the employees which were working there in addition really enjoyed their jobs. My wife and I were treated to a look around the whole process which had begun in the late 80s when 2 partners who had worked together in London since 1976 decided to move from London and find a place to make a pottery of their own. It is well worth stopping off to spend an hour looking at this process, which is not simple.Older children of 11 upwards should enjoy this-being able to chat to work people who are skilful. It starts with the lifting of heavy sacks of ball clay brought from Devon. There are various refining processes to ensure that it’s turned into a liquid and then to a solid to get all the air out. The clay which will be worked can go through 3 ways of making pots, moulding it, throwing it on a wheel and another 200-year-old process using a jigger and a jolly. Find out about those for yourself. The special thing that this pottery does is double glazing. No- that is not the insertion of glass into windows, but glazing the pottery twice by high firing. A lot of the equipment came from the closing down of potteries in Stoke-on-Trent. Magnificent tartan plates, rich deep blue vases and every type of household pottery you could imagine is made here- all by hand. My wife took a liking to a Robertson tartan design put on with little rubber rollers to a teapot and 2 mugs. She loved the deft way in which the lady rolled patterns confidently onto the already glazed surface before it was re-fired. You go through a shop to get in to the working area which is more extensive than you would think and has an upstairs workshop as well. If they are busy there is a 20 minute video of this at which you can watch the manufacturing. Besides the shop there is however a series of shelves for “seconds”. Most of these look perfect to the untrained eye. I was surprised to hear that the markets for this pottery are in Scotland itself and for export only to the United States. I do not know whether the company wishes to expand-but it easily could. I’ve never seen such pottery before and a good marketing manager and some spend on advertising ,other countries would open up further export markets. But the joy of how it is at the moment-a family business with friends- has a Scottish charm and you feel that every item is produced with care. The educational process of making pots deserves a wider audience. We both felt that the signage to the pottery and outside of it could have been clearer and stronger. We would recommend that anyone travelling on the A9 should not miss this experience.
9. Glasstorm
Overall Ratings
5.0 based on 7 reviews
10. Summer Isles Smokehouse. Altandhu.
Overall Ratings
5.0 based on 1 reviews
