New Job
This week saw me becoming the new girl as I started my new job at Turnberry Carpets on Monday, going to be developing, manufacturing and finishing a new hand woven rug/wall hanging, bringing new design practise to a company that uses the hand tufting method of rug manufacture.
I wanted to share with you all this beautiful piece of work that was produced by the company last year for Timorous Beasties and is now hanging in the National Trust for Scotland’s Robert Burns Birthplace Museum in Alloway. The wall hanging measures 21ft by 8ft and took 300 hours to make...
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| 'Ae Fond Kiss' picture take when still unfinished back in October 2011 By Chris Jame |
The Design includes references to many of Robert Burns’ works. Ae Fond Kiss, Death and Dr Hornbrook, and To a Mouse are all in the design, which also includes contemporary visual references. It is like no rug I have ever seen, such beautiful Scottish images, its like a Burn's fairy tale....
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| Image printed in The Herald Oct 19th 2011 of the finishing process |
So I'm now gonna be working with Turnberry Carpets Monday-Thursday and then working on the Spring Fling project on my days off- gonna be busy! (but I like it that way.)
Love Coral X
Sorry folks- made a mistake the Timorous Beasties rug was made at the end of 2011 not 2010! have now edited the blog xxxx
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