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The Weaving Shed ecommerce website project
A bespoke, hand-coded online shop for an award-winning Isle of Lewis weaver — built to sell limited, often one-of-a-kind handmade pieces with live stock control, alongside a holiday let, weaving retreats and gift cards.
The Weaving Shed
Online Shop
theweavingshed.shop
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Challenge
What the profile needed to support
- The Weaving Shed makes handwoven tweed, clothing, homeware, jewellery and art by hand on the Isle of Lewis — much of it limited or one-off, which off-the-shelf shop templates handle badly.
- They needed one site that could sell worldwide with live stock (down to "only 1 available"), and also promote the visitor side of the business — the holiday let and weaving retreats.
- As a remote Hebridean maker, the shop had to load fast, look premium, and handle multi-country shipping cleanly.
Build Direction
How the project is positioned
- I hand-coded a bespoke storefront (custom-coded, not Shopify or WooCommerce) shaped around how they actually sell: multiple categories, filtering by collection and price, and live inventory so single-stock items sell out cleanly.
- I built a custom image pipeline serving fast, responsive WebP imagery, so the craftsmanship looks the part without slowing the site down.
- The tourism side sits alongside the shop — the "Weavers Cottage" holiday let, weaving retreats, gift cards and a loyalty programme — all in one custom build.
Outcome Focus
Why the structure matters
- The Weaving Shed sells its limited, handmade pieces worldwide from one fast, premium storefront with proper stock control.
- The shop and the visitor side (holiday let, retreats) live together, so a single site carries the whole business.
- It is an award-winning visitor attraction — "Best See and Do Experience in Lewis and Harris 2023" — now with a store that matches the brand.
Profile Story
The Weaving Shed project profile
The Weaving Shed is a family craft business on the Isle of Lewis selling one-of-a-kind handmade pieces.
A template could not handle single-stock items plus a holiday let and retreats, so I hand-built a bespoke shop that does all of it in one place.
It was built direct with me, end to end — fast, premium, and made to fit a genuinely unique maker.
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