A beautiful range of jewellery designed and hand crafted in Orkney. High quality and long lasting…read moreproducts. Quite pricey but worth it as you get what you pay for.

Brilliant charity shop. They have a whole upstairs for clothing alone, books for 20p and all sorts…read moreof bric a brac. You never know what you'll find in here and the prices are incredibly cheap. They also sell home baking at the till area and the staff are always so cheerful and nice.

I'll not say anything that the previous reviewer already said, but will add that you no longer need…read moreto pay to see the gallery of tapestries. In fact, there's an extension being built right now to house even more, plus art from Leila's daughter. The gallery now sells a huge selection of prints, as is, mounted or framed, plus 'hand tufted' rugs with designs from some of the tapestries. Definitely worth a visit if in the South Isles, though only really possible by car unless you want to spend the best part of a day walking there & back from St. Margarets Hope.

This is a lovely well gallery. It's a bit 'off the beaten track' but is signposted from the village…read moreof St Margaret's Hope. The views from the gallery are stunning - and you can continue on to Hoxa Head and see the remians of wartime buildings. Inside the gallery you can watch Leila Thomson working creating one of her huge tapestries. If you pay to go into the gallery you can see more examples of her work hanging - it's stunning. She sells postcards and prints of some of her tapestries so you can take a memento home - if you want to but a tapestry I believe you have to commission one and ther's a waiting list - yes, she is that good.

An independent clothes retailer, linked to the mens clothing shop 'gorns' across the street. They…read moregenerally sell good quality stuff with labels such as bench, miss sixty, superdry etc available. Although small, you can usually find anything that you need. There is much to be said for limited choice! The only downside is that there is very little in the way of clothes shops in Kirkwall, so you often end up wearing the same stuff as lots of other people; although not a problem if you're just visiting!

This store has a range of clothing for everyone, babies, children, young teens and adults. It's…read morepopular for childrens clothing but the adult clothing is more suited towards older people. They have a range of shoes and accessories also, mostly for budget prices. It's worth having a look, even if it doesn't seem all that stylish from the outside as there are some great finds sometimes.

Beautiful and unique range of handcrafted jewellery, worth every penny.read more

We Frame It is a great shop with very helpful staff. It's primarily a shop which sells ready framed…read moreprints and photographs, and also does framing. They have a huge range of frames which they make to order, and they will cut mounts to order also. They very often have some reasonably priced ready made frames available to buy - the ones made from offcuts are particularly good value. The staff are always very helpful about giving advice if it is required. The range of gifts and postcards is growing all the time, and includes jewellery and mugs, There's also a range of 'Spaekin Orcadian' goods - t-shirts, coasters, etc with Orcadian dialect words and their meanings printed on them, which make great holiday gifts or mementoes.

excellent place for caithness handmade gifts at not bad prices well sorta what ud expect from…read morehippys making money out of foreign tourists it smells really nice tho