The Future Is Olach

Rengenerative textiles that are ever-changing and made to last a lifetime.

Natural Dye Screen Printing

Combined with more structural knits found within my collection, exploration of more organic patterns resembling the Scottish Highland landscapes can be seen. This has been done with the use of screen-printed natural dyes combined with manutex, a natural binder made from seaweed.

The process of knit-de-knit is prominent, this technique starts by dyeing knitted panels into an organic blended pattern which is then unraveled back onto a cone. When re-knitted back onto the machine with additional colours of yarn, this creates a completely new design. This process is circular and the garment can be ever changing and never fully finished.

Hand Processed Scottish Wool

Traceability is at the heart of my project, wool found within each textile can be traced back to the farm it originated from.

This allows for the important knowledge in the wools production, and if it has been sustainably and ethically produced. Processing the fibre by hand is a prominant focus within this collection, with raw fleece being transformed into yarn that can be used within knitted textiles.

Although colour has been a large focal point within my collection, celebrating the beauty found in raw, undyed wool is equally as important

The colours used within my knitted textiles have been inspired directly from those seen within the Scottish Highland’s natural landscapes, from its native Yellow Gorse flowers to the many shades of blue found within its Loch’s and skies.

I chose to use natural dyes, not only due to their importance in sustainability, but also their ability to replicate the colours seen in the nature surrounding us.

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Was such a lovely experience going back to the same place, @ardtornishestate that inspired my final year project and where I had sourced my wool from. It was just last year where my project idea clicked when looking at the beautiful landscapes and co
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Taking inspiration from the lovely blue skies in nature (maybe not always in Scotland)🌦️ Texel sheeps wool dyed using indigo, woad and alder with a pop of dark Zwartbles wool and madder dyed Blackface wool in the middle for an interesting contrast i
So delighted to have won the @fifecontemp New Makers award for 2024 at degree show, thanks so much for the help and support for my project now and in the future!
Vibrant strips of colours seen against the natural cream colours found within un-dyed British, traceable wool from the Texel Sheep, Scottish Blackface and the Shetland Sheep.
My knitted showpiece explores using indigo and fustic bark to create vibrant rich yellow and blues. When developing my samples in their very early stages, there would be many designs that I felt were not as successful as they could be, such as my dip
Vibrant pops of colour inspired by the beautiful yellow gorse flowers seen within the Scottish Highland landscapes. Many people may have the assumption that natural dyes only create earthy, muddy colours and cannot compare to the vibrant ones seen wi
Wool is a sustainable and biodegradable material that is circular by nature. It is taken from the sheep, used within textiles, then can be put back into the environment due to its ability to be composted. The nutrients from the wool get absorbed back
Combined with my knitted patterns done on the machine, I have designed samples done by screen-printing. These prints have been done using a combination of natural dye powders and manutex, a binder made from seaweed. The printed samples create a diffe
The Scottish West Highlands is a place very special to me, and I wanted to celebrate this within my Textiles by using the landscapes as my main source of imagery and colour. The many blues found in the skies and lochs, the different shades of green i