Byre collection: wearable art
Contemporary Scottish knitwear becomes wearable art in this collection made in an ideas exchange with Scottish artist Karlyn Sutherland.
The eponymous Byre is a historic stone-built cattle barn at Latheronwheel, Caithness, in the far north of mainland Scotland. Karlyn mapped the pattern of light falling into the building, recording the changes at different times of day—each particular shape appears only once a year.
Nielanell
Shetland Islands, Scotland
The Byre textile reinterprets Karlyn Sutherland's drawings and glass pieces, made for the byre at Lathronwheel, in knit
Glass panel by Karlyn Sutherland hangs and catches light within the rustic byre at Lathronwheel. Chalk drawings mapping patterns of light are on the wooden post.
A large wrap-shawl on a vintage mannequin. The shawl is knitted in an abstract pattern with some letters and numbers in charcoal grey and stone white yarn.
Charcoal grey and stone white scarf, show being worn. The design uses abstract, engineered motifs.
Models wear Byre collection pieces - knitted in charcoal and stone white fine yarn, with abstract, engineered pattern motifs.