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Weaving Sample

Double-faced woven sample in fine red, white, and blue and yellow bouclé yarn forming a pattern of stripes. It has a related label with the text: "Exhibition at the 1st European Special Congress on Textile Training and Textile Culture in Europe 1990, City Hall Kehl on the Rhine and the Centre of Culture Strasbourg, Nendorf 1-4th October 1990."

Blackwood, Jilli

Weaving Sample

Two faced sample with ribbons of scrap fabric (including striped printed material) in shades of grey, cream, biege, purple and green gold. Reverse with orange warp threads and gold and purple weft.

Blackwood, Jilli

Weaving Sample

Tightly woven single-faced fabric with black warp threads, and wefts in shades of blue, teal, purple, brown, grey and pink. Weft threads are lusterous and may be silk. Geometric design with chevrons, diamonds and other repeats in bands of pattern in a grid like format.

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Weaving Sample

Weaving sample made with warps consisting of green cords and fine orange cotton thread, and wefts of light green leather ribbons and strings of brown beads. It also has supplementary feathers. Warps and wefts are woven in sections of tightly woven or open weave vertical bands.

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Weaving Sample

Weaving sample made with warps consisting of green cords and fine orange cotton thread, and wefts of green leather ribbons, as well as supplementary strings of silver-coloured beads. Warps and wefts are woven in sections of tightly woven or open weave vertical bands.

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Weaving Sample

Open weave sample in a gradation of blue colour, from light blue to dark blue. The central design is a female figure, woven with supplementary wefts. Warps have been knotted and left long as fringe.

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Weaving Sample

Closely woven cotton fabric with printed warp threads and jagged design of subtle gradations in colour from orange through to red, blue, green to orange again. Second section with contrasting weft colours and regular pale yellow wefts giving a striped effect in shades of orange, pink, green and blue. Thicker cream coloured yarn has been introduced to form a line and zig zag geometric design over the coloured weave. This item was damaged in the fire in GSA's Mackintosh Building on 23rd May 2014. Textile conservation was completed in 2019.

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Weaving Sample

Cream coloured fabric, presumed to be a cotton mix, with yellow coloured grid over an irregular multi-colour spot and ribbon pattern.

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Weaver's workshop: Upper floor plan, 3rd submission

Free hand sketch showing the upper floor plan in scale 1:100 representing the third attempt to develop the weaver's workshop design especially issues related to the staircase position and the spatial arrangement of the two bedrooms and bathroom.

Platt, Christopher

Weaver's workshop: Section CC, final design submission

Architectural drawings on cartridge paper representing the final submission of the weaver's house project at Colonsay. The paper includes drawings of an enlarged section CC in scale 1:20, showing the construction materials which represents the vernacular building type, and finishing materials used on the building interior and exterior. Such drawing shows the architect's understanding on how to use the vernacular material and construction method to design new buildings suitable for new functions.

Platt, Christopher

Weaver's workshop: Roof plan and sections, 3rd submission

Free hand sketches showing the roof plan and section AA, BB, and CC all in scale 1:100 representing the third attempt to develop the weaver's workshop roof plan. The sheet includes the drawings of three cross sections all showing the main structural elements and materials used.

Platt, Christopher

Weaver's workshop: Plan, submission 1

Free hand sketch showing the initial idea to design a weaver's workshop including a plan in scale 1:100. This first submission represents the architect's idea to use a semi-circular shape to accommodate the functional spaces and the tools required for the weaving tasks.

Platt, Christopher

Weaver's workshop: Ground floor, 2nd submission, design in progress

Free hand sketch showing the ground floor plan in progress representing the second attempt to improve the design idea showing more details and rearranging the functional spaces and furniture accordingly.

Platt, Christopher

Weaver's workshop: Ground floor, 2nd submission

Free hand sketches showing the ground floor plan of the selected design idea including the main access to the site, wind direction, and North signal. This drawing represents the second stage of the development design process.

Platt, Christopher

Weaver's workshop: Final design submission, photos of a 3D model

Architectural photos on a cartridge paper representing the final submission of the weaver's house project on Colonsay. The paper includes four photos of a 3D model, described as:

  • "View looking towards entrance"
  • "Elevation facing prevailing wind"
  • "Courtyard side"
  • "Interior view showing double height work space & sleeping gallery".

Platt, Christopher

Weaver's workshop: Final design submission

Architectural drawings on cartridge paper represents the final submission of the weaver's house project on Colonsay. All in full details including furniture, levels, staircase, services, interior materials as well as the construction methods and materials. The paper includes drawings of:

  • Site plan scale 1:200
  • Lower plan scale 1:100
  • Upper plan scale 1:100
  • Section AA and BB scale 1:100.

Platt, Christopher

Weaver's workshop: Elevations, final design submission

Architectural drawings on cartridge paper represents the final submission of the weaver's house project at Colonsay. The paper includes drawings of four elevations (north view, east view, west view, and south view). All drawing are in scale 1:100, showing the finishing materials used on the building exterior elevations.

Platt, Christopher

Weaver's workshop: 1st submission, sections and elevation

Free hand sketches showing first submission sections AA , BB, and CC as well as two elevations - one facing east and the other facing west all in scale 1:100. These drawings show the basic elements within the workshop structure.

Platt, Christopher

Weaver's house: Upper & roof floor plan and elevation, 3rd submission

Free hand sketches showing the upper floor plan in scale 1:100 representing the third attempt to develop the weaver's house upper plan including more details with the roof plan. The sheet includes the drawing of the elevation looking east according to the new edition of the floor plans.

Platt, Christopher

Weather Section

One of a series of nine architectural drawings for a project entitled 'Lighter than Air', submitted by Ronan Morris and Aoibhin McGinley for their final year thesis.

Morris, Ronan

Wavy-edge table for the Director's Room, Glasgow School of Art

This item was lost in the fire in The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art on 23rd May 2014. This item was assessed for conservation in 2010 as part of the Mackintosh Conservation and Access Project (2006-2010).
Designed for the Director's Room at Glasgow School of Art. A table combining two of the most common motifs of Mackintosh's work of this period: a wavy line to the table top and a lattice grid to the stretchers.' (Roger Billcliffe).

Mackintosh, Charles Rennie

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