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The J Boult Designs festive gift guide
Discover gifts for the adventurous of spirit and those conscious about the future of our planet. From the J Boult Designs workshop to under your Christmas tree, here is a complied festive gift guide worthy your perusal. A gift for someone who loves whisky Shotgun cartridge hip flask gift set Bring the spirit of the Scottish Highlands this festive season, with this exquisitely unique leatherbound shotgun hipflask gift set. Handmade in the J Boult Designs workshop, each piece of leather is hand dyed with a natural upcycled walnut shell dye. This means that each hip flask is unique. It is then...
Top Whisky Gifts from J Boult Designs
We simply love a dram! Whether it's out in the field or at home in front of the fire, the texture, warmth and taste of single malt is just perfection in itself. To celebrate our love of single malt, we've decided to feature three J Boult Designs products that accompany a glass or two of your favourite dram. Fallow antler whisky flight This whisky flight is the ultimate way to celebrate the beauty of single malt whilst entertaining family and friends. Each flight is handmade in our workshop from ethically sourced fallow deer antler and four crystal wee glencairn...
Meet the Maker - Caroline Wolfe Murray
We’ve joined forces with the talented folks at Bill Baber to highlight even more businesses who are designing and creating in Scotland, just like us! This is part of our Meet the Maker blog series. This month’s spotlight is on Caroline Wolfe Murray who creates wonderful homewares using traditional Harris Tweed, bright Liberty fabrics and, recently, laser cut wood pieces. Caroline lives in East Lothian, just outside of Edinburgh. She chatted with Lucy from Bill Baber about her inspiration and her favourite parts of Scotland. Can you tell us how your business got started? After studying archaeology and working as an archaeological illustrator...
Christmas Gift Guide by J Boult Designs
With the jolly season just around the corner and folk more than ever wishing to buy local, we thought we would throw together our favourite J Boult Designs gifts. Each of these gifts are handmade with locally sourced and ethical materials, made in small quantities in our workshop. Gifts that we truly believe would make wonderful Christmas gifts! Shotgun cartridge hip flask gift set Our newest product, the Shotgun cartridge hip flask gift set is the perfect gift for those that love the outdoors and a nip of whisky or sloe gin. Wrapped in leather, each hip flask is unique...
In the workshop - From the hill to your cuff, the story behind your bullet cufflinks
The journey of your J Boult Designs Bullet cufflinks is an interesting one from the hill to our workshop to a recycled box to being posted to you! In this blog post we pay homage to one of our favourite handmade products that we make. We simply love that these cufflinks are up-cycled and would otherwise be a waste material if it wasn't for the love and attention that we give it, thus transforming the bullets into a fantastic pair of cufflinks you can wear! The Hill The first step of the journey...
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