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Bard Scotland

Shopping & retail
@bard.scotland
A gallery and studio for Scottish craft and design in Leith, Edinburgh. Open by appointment in January. Shipping globally.
  • Shopping & Retail
  • eCommerce/DTC
  • Following 3K
  • Followers 15.3K
  • Engagement 1.98%
  • Avg comments 11

About Bard Scotland

Bard Scotland (@bard.scotland) is a Shopping & retail creator on Instagram, also filed under Shopping & Retail and eCommerce/DTC. The account has 15,302 followers and 456 published posts. Recent posts average 302 likes and 11 comments, an engagement rate of 1.98%.

With 15.3K followers, Bard Scotland is a micro creator by the common 10,000 to 100,000 definition. Bard Scotland follows 2,962 accounts, so the audience is roughly 5.2 times the size of the list followed. Bard Scotland is set up as an Instagram business account. Flinque files Bard Scotland under 3 categories, led by Shopping & retail and followed by Shopping & Retail and eCommerce/DTC.

The Instagram bio for Bard Scotland runs to 19 words across 3 lines. The latest activity Flinque has on record for Bard Scotland dates from March 2025.

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456 Posts

Of the 10 most recent posts shown for Bard Scotland, 5 are carousels, 3 are videos and 2 are single images. No single format accounts for most of them. 456 published posts give Bard Scotland a moderate archive on Instagram. Against the audience, that is roughly 34 followers for each post published. Bard Scotland also keeps 4 story highlights on the profile. All 10 carry captions, averaging 97 words each. The captions are written mainly in English. Words that recur across them include saturday, life, craft, until and these. The captions tag #bardscotland, #madeinscotland, #scottishcraft, #scottishdesign and #scottishinteriors.

Motif, Line, Colour.
Frances Priest at Blackwell.

How fitting it is that ceramic artist Frances Priest’s survey exhibition Motif, Line, Colour, is at Blackwell. Mackay Hugh Baillie Scott‘s masterpiece richly demonstrates craft’s power to augment architecture, interiors and daily life at human scale. The show brings together 60 works spanning 25 years of Frances’s practice, carefully positioned throughout Blackwell in conversation with each other and with elements of the house.

In an essay titled The Soul of the House from his book Houses and Gardens (1906), Baillie Scott wrote of the practice of craft as “possessing that strange inscrutable quality of true romance” with the power to “lull and soothe”. These words capture the sensation of Frances’s work – vivid and contemplative in equal measure.

Hugo has written an introductory essay about Frances’s work for the catalogue accompanying Motif, Line, Colour, which launches on Saturday 31st January. He will be in conversation with Frances at Blackwell from 3:30 - 5pm. Tickets have sold out, but we are told to advise anyone keen to attend to register for returns on the Lakeland Arts website.

Motif, Line, Colour runs at Blackwell until April 11th 2026. Do go!

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OLD FLAME: We are thrilled to have contributed a candlestick to the mighty 100 Candleholders exhibition at Blunk Space in Point Reyes CA, which opens on January 17th. Those who know us know how ardently we admire JB Blunk, and adore Mariah his daughter. Beacons of inspiration for us - both. So we’re calling it early as a highlight of 2026 for Bard Studio.

For the show, James designed a candle holder with two materials of historic significance in the Scottish home: peat for warmth and pewter for embellishment. Old Flame honours the millennia old formation of peat with an object of value for daily use. We are borderline candle addicts; they help keep the flame alight in our relationship. 🔥

100 Candleholders
January 17–March 28, 2026
Opening reception:
Saturday, January 17
3–5pm

Blunk Space
11101 CA-1
105
Point Reyes Station, CA 94956
Happy New Year everyone. May 2026 bring many moments that raise the spirits and gladden the heart, in amongst the drudgery and dread. Onwards! 🩵
Still time (just) to give the rockstar in your life a leather jacketed stone for Christmas. Saturday is the last day for orders with guaranteed arrival in time for the big day. We will continue to ship on Monday, but cannot guarantee Christmas delivery. Rock on! 😎
Thank you to everyone for your wonderful custom over the past few weeks. We are delighted at the idea of Scottish craft featuring beneath so many trees this Christmas. Following advice from our shipping agents, Saturday 20th is the last day we can guarantee orders online will arrive before Christmas. We will continue to ship on 22nd, and we will close our doors at 5pm on 23rd. We are able to open for appointment on 24th if anyone is urgently seeking something particular in person. We’ve all been there.🎄
Like dogs, craft is for life not just Christmas. We have a vast array of beautiful things that we would be thrilled to find under the tree.

We will continue shipping in the UK until Monday 22nd December, with the caveat that only orders by Friday 19th are guaranteed for delivery in time for the big day.
Iona McVean’s stoneware Tamna collection of lamp bases are inspired by the ‘flotsam and jetsam of the wild Hebridean coastlines,’ as she describes.

‘The stony beaches of Loch Tamnabhaigh on the west coast of Lewis are covered in plastic. You find splintering plastic pieces no larger than a grain of sand and some that are large enough to climb inside, all from the multicoloured fishing industry and the remnants of human consumption. I see the beauty in these colours, as controversial as this may seem. The way these forever plastics have been shaped from decades at sea catch my attention and, to be honest, I have never seen these beaches any other way. Habitats form on the debris, goose barnacles carve into polystyrene and seaweed strings across acrylic buoys. My neighbour once retrieved a bright red kayak in the surf of a storm that had come straight across the pond from Maine, with the price tags still attached. Ten years ago I found a perfect multifaceted hose head that we still use. We’ve turned trash into treasure many times by giving meaning to once discarded objects. But, as we all know, the negatives far outweigh any positives when it comes to ocean plastic, and I will never see these beaches as my ancestors used to see them.‘
We had the pleasure of sitting for Jeremy McClain and Nicholas Elliott of Elliot McClain Studios who have turned our Bard story into a beautiful film. Such heartfelt thanks to Jeremy and Nick. Bard is not just our story of course, but the stories of all the people we work with, for whom we feel endless gratitude for entrusting us with their tales too. We tell them proudly and gladly.
Bard is open from 11am until 5pm today. Following last night’s torrential rain, the mugginess has gone and it’s a lovely day for a stroll down the Water of Leith.
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#bardscotland
#madeinscotland
#scottishcraft
#scottishdesign
#scottishinteriors
Bard is home to the work of more than 60 makers, designers and artists from all over Scotland. We present their work alongside historic pieces in a domestic setting rather than on plinths or behind glass. One of our missions at Bard is to encourage people to live with craft in daily life. Our gallery in Leith is like a serving suggestion. Do come and see us! We are open from 11am until 5pm Friday, Saturday, Sunday and by appointment outside these times.

#bardscotland
#madeinscotland
#scottishcraft
#scottishinteriors
#scottishdesign

Bard Scotland's engagement

Bard Scotland's engagement rate on Instagram is 1.98%, between 1% and 3%, or 1 to 3 likes and comments per 100 followers. On a typical post that comes to about 1 like or comment for every 51 followers. An average post collects 302 likes and 11 comments, close to 27 likes for each comment.

Engagement rate

1.98%

Avg likes
302
Avg comments
11
Interactions : followers
1 : 51

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Who is Bard Scotland?

Bard Scotland (@bard.scotland) is a Shopping & retail creator on Instagram, also filed under Shopping & Retail and eCommerce/DTC. Bard Scotland is set up as an Instagram business account. The Instagram bio for Bard Scotland runs to 19 words across 3 lines.

How many followers does Bard Scotland have?

Bard Scotland has 15,302 followers on Instagram (15.3K). Bard Scotland follows 2,962 accounts, so the audience is roughly 5.2 times the size of the list followed. 456 published posts give Bard Scotland a moderate archive on Instagram.

What is Bard Scotland's engagement rate?

Bard Scotland's engagement rate on Instagram is 1.98%, between 1% and 3%, or 1 to 3 likes and comments per 100 followers. On a typical post that comes to about 1 like or comment for every 51 followers. An average post collects 302 likes and 11 comments, close to 27 likes for each comment.

What does Bard Scotland post about on Instagram?

Flinque files Bard Scotland under 3 categories, led by Shopping & retail and followed by Shopping & Retail and eCommerce/DTC. Of the 10 most recent posts shown for Bard Scotland, 5 are carousels, 3 are videos and 2 are single images. The 10 recent Instagram captions Flinque holds for Bard Scotland repeatedly use the words saturday, life, craft, until and these. Bard Scotland's captions carry hashtags such as #bardscotland, #madeinscotland and #scottishcraft. Bard Scotland writes those captions mainly in English. Bard Scotland keeps 4 story highlights, which open with a free Flinque account.

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