A collection Kath Whyte's drawings, sketches and embroidery designs.
Consists of loose sketches and sketchbooks which contain sketches and drawings done in various mediums such as pencil, pastel, and watercolour. Subjects include florals, trees, birds, cats, mermaids, boats, ecclesiastical figures, death masks, fashion, and weaving designs; etc. Some sketchooks also contain notes.
Included are design drawings for: Creation pulpit fall, 1959; chair for Eaglesham Church, c1961; Mayfield cloth, 1972; Old Parish Church Gourock, 1973; double bow & silver cross, 1973; Live Coal, not dated; long lecturn fall for Cathcart South, 1978/79; studies for last piece of work, early 1980s; Prestonkirk Pulpit Fall (includes some correspondence), 1984; and poppies panel in V&A collection, not dated.
There are a number of outsize folders which contain design material for:
- "Dove Fall"; includes paper dove cutouts, design on tracing paper, postcards and cuttings, and illustrations of grouse and owls.
- "Tay Bridge Stole"; includes news cuttings, textile sample, photographs, and design drawing.
- Design for quilted panel for Netherlee Figure.
- Folder of lettering and graphic work , life drawings, and "proposed design for embroidery 'Rosemount', Linlithgow"; including a Norwegian Art Treasures poster, and piece of graphic work signed by "E. Younger".
- Folder of designs for "Hand of God"; including a folder labelled "Queen Mother's, Yorkhill 1971".
- Designs for Arbroath Panel, 1943 and Design for Communion Cloth for Shawlands.
- Designs for St Martins Church, Port Glasgow, 1959.
- Folder entitled "Architecture & Interior Decoration" but containing portrait and life drawings done in pencil.
- Folder of material relating to "Tree of Light"; includes a scenic watercolour signed Leslie Bewes 12/1/83.
- Folder of designs for Life Force Lectern, Cathcart South, Celestia, Last Supper etc.
Also included is a folder of cuttings from "The Scottish Annual & Braemar Gathering Book" featuring Kath Whyte artwork; as well as some other artwork.
Other designs:
- Hand of God, Lettering and graphic work; life drawings; design for Rosemont, Floral Sketches, Design for Arbroath panel, Design for communion cloth shawlands, Dove Fall, Floral Sketches and abstract drawings and paintings, Tree of light, Floral Sketches and sketch of a bench, Welcome to Britain design, street scene etching, The Flowers in the Valley, Scenic watercolours, floral sketches, embroidery design, pictorial embroidery, build sketches, Portraits and life drawings, St Martins Church, Tay Bridge Stole, The Scottish Annual & Braemar Gathering artwork, Design for quilted panel for Netherlee figure.