The first project of the spring term in the second year had a choice of titles, I selected 'Eco Scot'. Initially I did the obvious research into the two terms, Eco leading me directly to recycling, however I looked into recycling in a less than obvious way. I started to think of the recycling of ideas rather than of materials, so I decided to 'recycle' the idea of tartan, I wanted to loosen some of the strictures that define what can be a tartan. The 'Scot' term of the title lead me to looking into what makes poeple think of Scotland, leading straight back to tartan, so I decided that I would produce a kind of tartan that symbolised Scotland completely, bringing in the national flower (thistles) and another of its famous icons, Mackintosh.
The final project of the second year was the self-negotiated brief, where we wrote our own project. I decided to do my project on circles, I chose this because a theme that was minimal in terms of design would offer me the possibility to explore much more technically. My passion for the tecnical aspects of woven textiles was only just beginning to surface, but I was eager to see what I could achieve. This was the first project where I produced a technical folder. These are a few of the fabrics I produced for this project, the final intended outcome for these fabrics was for interiors, I had bedrunners in mind as a final product.
