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SCOTLAND'S NATURAL LANDSCAPE MEETS SCANDI STYLE

SCOTLAND'S NATURAL LANDSCAPE MEETS SCANDI STYLE

April 1, 2023
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Image courtesy of @scottishhandwovenrugs

In Zurich old town at Neumarkt 20-11 April 2023 is an exhibition of handwoven and dyed wool rugs and cushions made by Kristina Taylor from Edinburgh.


Image courtesy of @scottishhandwovenrugs

Her overriding creative process combines natural colours and texture with a deliberate attempt not to appear “machine-made” reflecting the 19th century Arts and Crafts tradition. The Japanese expression “wabi-sabi” nurtures authenticity in hand-made products because they are not perfect but express a ‘flawed beauty’ which has an intrinsic natural simplicity.


Image courtesy of @scottishhandwovenrugs

Remnant carpet wools from UK mills for the rugs are dyed with natural colours, some wild-collected plants and fungi and others grown in the allotment, lovely greens being produced over-dyeing grey and blue wools with yellow and orange.

Texture is achieved from mixing wools of various thickness, breed, spin and patterns, combined with the artful use of Swedish rya knots, ends left long. The cushions, filled with feather pads, combine finer lambswool and alpaca with hand spun textured fibres in complementary patterns.


Image courtesy of @scottishhandwovenrugs

Design influences combine her mother’s Swedish heritage with her upbringing in Scotland surrounded by its wild nature. Geological expeditions over Scotland’s hills, islands and river beds with her father, an amateur geologist, gave her a love and deep understanding of its physical geography, wild landscapes and mood.

She has brought life experiences and skills to create functional individual pieces out of natural materials, using her scientific knowledge of natural dyes of flowers, lichens, fungi, bark and wood chips, to dye wool into a myriad of beautiful colours with which to work with.

Smaller textured rugs in the “Woodland Floor” collection, created for the bedside, are themed seasonally. The concept being that on awakening bare feet are planted on their natural softness.


Image courtesy of @scottishhandwovenrugs

Follow Kristina Taylor here: @scottishhandwovenrugs
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