Harris Tweed Handbag Crafting Experience

Craft a custom Harris Tweed® handbag in 60 minutes. Choose colors, personalize with straps, and learn from skilled instructors. Unleash your creativity today.

Duration: 1 hour, 30 minutes
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • 6 Sibbald Walk - During this session, participants will have the opportunity to design their own Islander Mini Satchel Handbag. They can choose the body color, select a preferred Harris Tweed® cloth lid, and pick a bag strap and accessories.
    After selecting the various components, participants will start assembling their bag using a set of tools….
What's Included
  • Tools and components
What's Not Included
  • Upgrades to other bag types from
Additional Information

In a 60-minute interactive workshop, create a bespoke Harris Tweed® handbag from the ground up. Select the color for the bag’s body, pick a distinctive Harris Tweed® fabric for the lid, and customize it with decorative straps that reflect your personal style—whether daring and adventurous or elegantly classic. With guidance from experienced instructors,…

Location
6 Sibbald Walk
Sibbald Walk
Please come into the Canongate Islander store to be welcomed for your workshop.
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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Lolapops1
Nov 5, 2025
Bags of fun - Wow what a brilliant experience. Guided by the wonderful Ellie & Gill, we made our own unique harris tweed bags. Really interesting.
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907aerinl
Oct 26, 2025
DO THIS WORKSHOP - If you're in Edinburgh for a visit and you're looking for authentic tweed to use in your day-to-day life, this is your workshop! Assembly was simple, there was a HUGE selection of not only Tweeds (Harris and Arran) but also every colour of purse under the sun. I look forward to using my backpack to the fullest! Jane led our workshop and was SO sweet and accommodating, and we had a great time!
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Stacyap5957si
Oct 19, 2025
Wonderful, 10/10 - Wonderful experience making tweed bags. It was just lovely at the Cannongate location. It was a bit fiddly with the screws but once we got the hang of it we were pros. We met other lovely people and enjoyed seeing all the different choices that everyone made.
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Lenahu8551sf
Oct 15, 2025
Amazing - Lucy was a absolute delight and we really enjoyed the experience. So thank you. We will be back at another time. We love our backs.
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632bethd
Oct 9, 2025
Worth it!!! - We had a large group and the ladies Charlie, Sara and Fiona were amazing! They were fun to work with and patient. It was the highlight to our first day in Edinburgh!!!
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Jasonbg7176ds
Oct 8, 2025
A Must-Do Experience in Edinburgh! - Heather and I had an incredible afternoon with Cameron at the Islander workshop. He was an outstanding host—patient, knowledgeable, and genuinely fun to learn from. With his guidance, Heather created a lovely mini satchel, and I made a backpack I’m thrilled with. If you’re visiting Edinburgh and love Harris Tweed or tartan, skip the shops and make your own bag instead. The experience is personal, creative, and such a memorable way to connect with Scottish craftsmanship. Thank you, Cameron, for an unforgettable day and for helping us create something truly special!
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Vacationplannerma
Oct 18, 2025
Fun activity - This was a fun experience while in Edinburgh. Enjoyed picking out the components and making my own bag. It’s super cute. The space is very crowded though and it’s hard to pick everything out. Wish they had more strap colors specifically in red. Otherwise it was good. I did the canongate one.
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Molly
Oct 11, 2025
Location matters!!!!! - This is a really cool experience, however, the location matters. I did the East Market St Location and was the first class of the day. They only had two genuine leather bags at the start of the day for the very first class. There were also no matching straps for the brown leather I ended up selecting. It seems they should provide a matching strap to each body. I was very disappointed in the selection. If you see the other shops as you are wandering Edinburgh, you will see how there is a much larger selection available elsewhere. I also see someone commented on a review about buying extra straps to swap out, this was not offered to us as an option. Cool experience, but very disappointing as well.
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Jill
Oct 29, 2025
Beyond Frustrated with this process!! - Was totally looking forward to this experience and it fell way short of expectations. When you walk into the Islander shops you see all these beautifully made purse and we weren’t presented with any of those fabrics. We were told that the ones presented were the only ones available - of which there were 4 patterns that were very “old” looking and not any of the ones that I had my heart set on. After settling on one that was the best of the choices, we were then instructed about how to put together using the 10 screws provided. This took less than 10 minutes to fully put together. The girl who was instructing us was completely “over it” and even walked outside to use her phone because she couldn’t get a signal inside the store. This was a complete waste of time and money - I didn’t get the purse I truly wanted and am beyond frustrated every time I walked into a store that sells Harris Tweed!!
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Stacey
Oct 21, 2025
Avoid this - Waste of Money - This was the BIGGEST rip off. First of all the whole “making” a purse is screwing in 10 screws. The fabrics are very limited only 4 patterns when we went and they were discontinued or old or very loud fabrics. Not the ones in their ads. And there are no options to upgrade to what you really want. For 95 dollars you get a plastic purse a 3 year old could assemble and not in the fabric you would want. If you want one buy the one you want and save 20 dollars.
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From $93
up to 15 guests
1 - Adult
Cancellation: Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the start of your experience (local time).