Built in 1930 as a school for the blind, this building still stands on the same ground.

Its walls and pillars, windows and floors hold the memories of those who once learned here and spent their days within them.

Unlike the history we come to know through photographs and words, this is a space where the past can be touched directly.

To inherit an old building is not to seal it in its former state, but to connect the time and memories layered within it to the lives we lead today, and to hand them on to the next generation.

.a is a cultural space run and curated by KNITOLOGY.

Clothing, craft, art, books, food: the many forms that creation takes.

What we wish to look at lies beneath the names and categories that seem to divide them: the warmth of human hands, the time given, the intentions, and the sense of beauty that rises from them.

The value of a thing is not decided simply by its price or its function.

It lies, we believe, in the moment its philosophy and craft meet someone, are chosen and used in everyday life, and in how, over time, new meaning is born and passed on as culture.

To feel something here, to choose, to take it in hand. These small acts protect historic architecture and the town, support the makers, and nurture new creation and culture.

This is the cycle we hope to create.

This place is not yet finished.

Rather than waiting for completion, we chose to open in the midst of change.

Restoring the building. Choosing things. Someone visiting, feeling something, taking something home. Each of these lays a new layer of time upon this place.