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Disco, Distilled is a contemporary textile language developed for the digital era.
Designed as a luxury, modern celebration system to grow with your business.
Extending traditions such as tartan, tweed, paisley, argyle and Fair Isle, the work proposes a new pattern system for the 21st century — one shaped not by the loom, but by the pixel.
Emerging from Scotland’s dual heritage of textile manufacture and video game design, the system reflects a cultural shift from industrial weaving to computational production. Where historic patterns were constructed through the mechanics of the loom, Disco Distilled is built through digital processes — drawing on logics of repetition, tiling and spatial construction found in both textiles and game environments.
Rooted in a country that moved from global textile production to pioneering digital industries, the work positions Scotland not only as the origin of historic pattern languages, but as a site for their contemporary reinvention.
The system operates as a visual language for celebration, connection and gathering. Across silk, surface and space, the patterns function as modular elements within a wider framework designed for contemporary environments.
The silk pieces form part of this broader visual system — a textile expression of a scalable, spatial language.
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The individual works are titled through a series of vignettes — fragments of imagined and remembered scenes.
Names such as Bubbles pole dancing on the terrace draw on the anarchic spirit of Scottish gatherings: parties held in country houses, castles, on estates, in distilleries and on farms. They evoke a culture of temporary freedom — where social rules loosen, identities blur, and spaces are reimagined through celebration.
Rooted in queerness, humour and lived experience, the titles reflect a world in which behaviour becomes fluid, theatrical and occasionally absurd. They operate as narrative cues within the system — suggesting moments of excess, intimacy and play, rather than fixed meanings.
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“Tradition ist nicht die
Anbetung der Asche, sondern
die Weitergabe des Feuers”
– Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)
Tradition is not the
veneration of the ashes but
the passing of the flame.