Rachel Scott

A Royal College of Art alumnus, Rachel Scott is a weaver creating rugs with a graphic aesthetic, drawing on her experience with organic fibres. Rachel Scott has been weaving since 1976; employing a slow process using hands and traditional tools to produce designs true to the heritage of weaving. Rachel starts off with a rough sketch of her rug, but her pieces only truly become of interest during her weaving process, where final colour graduations and textures begin to form from the combination of strands.

Maker's Story

A Royal College of Art alumnus, Rachel Scott is a weaver creating rugs with a graphic aesthetic, drawing on her experience with organic fibres. Rachel Scott has been weaving since 1976, employing a slow process using hands and traditional tools to produce designs true to the heritage of weaving. Rachel starts off with a rough sketch of her rug, but her pieces only truly become of interest during her weaving process, where final colour graduations and textures begin to form from the combination of strands.

Maker's Quote

I began weaving as the stair carpet was wearing out. I spin my own wool on a spinning wheel that my brother made me, a bobbin screwed on a treadle sewing machine base. My fleeces come mainly from friends who live on the Berkshire Downs & have flocks of different British sheep breeds: Shetlands, Manx Logthans & Hebrideans.

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The Process

Rachel Scott’s yarns are directly spun from undyed wools, meaning the colours of her rugs come from the natural shades of the sheep breed’s wool, from Black Welsh (black with rusty tips), Devon Longwoolds (creamy) and Shetlands (brown and black).