‘Tiny Island 1: Berneray, Outer Hebrides’

As a designer, educator and researcher with over 30 years of collaboration with industry, Alison Gault uses design principles as key drivers when creating a new collection or bespoke product. This work as a result reflects colour, rhythm, texture, pattern and scale.

With a focus on circular design systems, and locally grown, locally processed fibres, this collection has been created by using traceable organic and naturally yarn from Birlinn yarns, sourced from the beautiful Hebridean sheep. These products were developed to also test both wool yarns from islands in the North Atlantic to show that wool is both a smart and beautiful fibre and should be used as a valuable resource and never as waste.

Materials: Birlinn Yarn, naturally dyed yarn from the sheep that live on Berneray in the Outer Hebrides; naturally dyed Rathlin Blackface wool.