Creating a Textile Collection: Colour, Cloth & Glasgow
A superb day of interiors inspiration in Glasgow last week - meeting a new interiors client and spending time working on my new fabric collection with CAT at the Glasgow School of Art.
CAT at GSA will be printing my new collection of fabrics, so we met to talk through colour and how to increase tone and depth across the designs. It was a pleasure to work directly on the machine, seeing how subtle shifts can transform the final cloth and give the designs a greater sense of richness and atmosphere.
We also spent time discussing base cloths. I’m excited to share that we’ve sourced a new fabric for this collection: a 100% linen, woven in the UK using European yarns. It has a beautiful handle - the feeling of the linen and its weight are very special. As soon as cotton or nylon is added, the character changes completely, and we enjoyed talking through this as we reviewed the cloth selection together.
From a sustainability point of view, it was important to me that everything is made in the UK and uses 100% natural fibres. Linen uses the least amount of water in yarn production, which makes it feel like a natural choice for this collection. There is also something deeply meaningful about this collaboration - my textile career began at the Glasgow School of Art, studying here, and now they are printing my fabric collection.
One of the designs we worked on during this visit, Tulips Day 458, comes from my Daily Sketchbook practice - a quiet ritual I have kept for over two years, drawing every morning before breakfast. These drawings form the starting point for my textile work, slowly evolving through colour, scale, and material into something made to live within interiors.
This felt like an important moment in the process - returning to a place where my journey began, while shaping the next chapter of the work.
More soon, from the studio.
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