The Royal Museum will hold its first-ever selling exhibition when ‘gifted’ opens in the Crafts Gallery on 11 November 2005. The exhibition features a diverse range of work by over 30 designers from across Scotland in a range of disciplines including glass, ceramics, textiles, jewellery and basket weaving.

Prices range from around £7.50 to several hundred pounds, catering for the impulse buyer as well as those who are searching for special gifts in the run-up to Christmas.

Designers include Ceri White, who produces colourful ceramics such as coasters and pot stands, Clare Nicholson who combines vintage fabrics with digitally printed cotton and silk fabric to produce textiles including cushions, tea towels and scarves, and Katy West who produces eclectic, limited-edition ceramics.

Dot Sim makes jewellery which reflects starry skies, changing landscapes, horizons and the sea and Tessuti specialise in printed textiles with limited edition stools, screens and hangings.

The other designers featured are jewellers Alison Macleod, Stooshie, Julie Allison, Jenny Deans, Carla Edwards, Sarah Keay, Natalie Vardy, Hannah Louise Lamb, Georgia Wiseman, Kaz Robertson and Erin Daly, bags from Sporran Nation and Hoop Hoop, textiles by Margaret Wilson, James Donald of Pick One, Lorraine Linton of INTO, Mogwaii, Yarrumga and Tait and Style, paper by Diane McBain and Susie Leiper, baskets by Lise Bech, silver by Abigail Brown, glass by Deborah Holloway, Ingrid Phillips and Inge Panneels and Samantha Vettesse.

‘gifted’ is on at the Crafts Gallery, Royal Museum, Chambers Street, Edinburgh EH1 1JF tel 0131 247 4422 from 11 November 2005 to 29 January 2006.  Opening hours Monday to Saturday from 10am to 5pm, Tuesday 10am to 8pm and Sunday 12 noon to 5pm.  Admission Free