Piob Mhor Bagpipes

Time and energy to celebrate profitable tale
Jul 29 2004, Perthshire Advertiser

BLAIRGOWRIE-based professional kilt and bagpipe manufacturers, Piob Mhor, tend to be this thirty days celebrating
25 years in business.

The organization (Gaelic for ‘Great Pipes’) which was launched by Gwen and Ruthven Milne in the belated 1970s, is a household company that spans a minimum of three generations. The family decided in Blairgowrie after going back to Scotland from Australia some 25 years previous, purchasing their particular retail property that same 12 months. Building on Gwen and Ruthven’s passion for everything Scottish, the organization has built some sort of class track record of it self as leading producers of kilts, feather bonnets and bagpipes and presently exports its highland wares to numerous nations such as the USA, Canada, brand new Zealand, Australian Continent and Japan.

Demand for the company’s high quality design and manufacturing is acknowledged around the world, with commissions for highly specialised work via some the world’s leading manner homes such as the doyenne of Scottish tartan, Vivienne Westwood.

Stepping into Piob Mhor‘s traditional store is like using a mild and pleasant journey into Scotland’s last. Steeped of all time and, and in addition, some tartan, the store, originally a shoe store, is packed flooring to roof using the most readily useful that Scotland is offering, from feather bonnets and sporrans to Scottish antiques and collectables.

Dating back into the very early 1860s, the shop’s interior is regarded as Scotland’s few continuing to be standard retail premises therefore the fate of their incorporated lumber casings and antique free-standing show units are highly guarded by Historic Scotland.

This facet of the business is today operate by Gwen and Ruthven’s daughter, Dianne Tulloch, by herself a highly carried out master seamstress who specialises in highland party wear and has now handed down the woman craft based abilities to the woman girl Louisa, today 24.

She stated: “The success of Piob Mhor of Scotland is certainly much right down to the skill and passion of my parents that still earnestly active in the production aspect.

“ Our development associated with retail company since 2001 has seen a stable increase in interest in the company’s items that is testimony on good quality Scottish artistry that people have got all worked challenging develop also to give with other people in staff therefore the household.

“ Many of our customers come back to united states again and again because of the private attention that our company could offer.”

Behind the Victorian store frontage of the retail operations, but lies a vibrant ecommerce business occur the heart of Scotland therefore the future the 25 year old household business, which employs the abilities of Dianne’s three siblings, her husband, brother-in-law and son, is looking successful.

Since the advent of the internet, brand-new doorways have established and their particular international recognition is continuing to grow further going for the chance to service an international customers from their particular early little bit hill and glen.