The Interweaving Threads: Scotland & Norway Through Dress Residency is part of a new programme for textile artists, designers, and makers based in Scotland and in Norway. The residency aspect of this programme supports one artist/designer/maker based in Scotland and one based in Norway, providing fully-funded residencies at MUHO in Norway in April 2026 and at Cove Park in May 2026.

Following a call for applications, we are delighted to announce that the residencies have been awarded to Ingrid Bjørnevog Haugnes (Norway) and Owen Edward Snaith (Scotland). Based in Oslo, Haugnes is a textile craft practitioner, artist and designer. Her practice is grounded in long-term work with Norwegian folk dress and bunad, exploring garments as living structures shaped by labour, care, and repair. Owen is a Scottish designer working across fashion, textile design, and mixed media art. Snaith’s work explores traditional Scottish dress, the uniforms of east coast fisherfolk and his own identity. A poetic queer thread weaves throughout his work, which is grounded in craftsmanship, collaboration, and community.

The year-long project Interweaving: Scotland and Norway through Dress launched in October 2025 with a special two-day event in Edinburgh addressing the similarities and differences between traditional Norwegian and Scottish dress and textiles. The project partners are The Norwegian Institute of Bunad and Folk Costume, Arts & Culture Norway, MUHO, Cove Park, art historian Dr.Kitty Corbet Milward, curator and anthropologist Maja Musum and The National Museum of Scotland for research and inspiration.

Ingrid Bjørnevog Haugnes (photography, Maren Augestad)