About
Arra Textiles || Lucy MacDonald
After completing a degree in Design for Textiles at university in both Scotland and Finland, Lucy's textile practice has developed to encompass design, sustainability, digital design techniques and a strong message of environmental protection.
Arra Textiles launched in 2016 and the Textile Artworks launched in 2022 at Collect Open. The designs for both aspects of Lucy's practice have become known for colour, complex woven design and a connection to place.
The Arra Textiles Collections compromise of a colourful range of designs for the home and body. Each piece is a limited edition and is woven with sustainably sourced natural fibres.
Lucy blends a self-taught heritage tapestry weaving style with contemporary digital woven design, creating an image within an image with complex structures echoing throughout the woven landscapes. Each unique, site specific piece belongs to a location based capsule collection with raw materials, dye plants and inspiration coming from the land they depict.
Over the past few years, her practice has begun to focus on developing intricate, site specific, capsule collections, installation projects and commissions both large scale and small.
