Making practice as narrator of changing social worlds-Textiles and the Scottish Borders, in the 21st century, but based firmly on the past?

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Abstract

The paper explores a variety of actors in the historic and contemporary textiles industry of the Scottish Borders with a specific focus on the region’s collective understanding of place. It uses ethnographic, material culture based and archival probes into past and present textiles practices from education to industry and archive. It does so in order to explore current and past manufacturing activity in Scottish Borders textiles not just as economics or object based, and in its respective significance for the life worlds of makers past and present. In a dialogical construction of heritage narratives in the Scottish Borders, the paper provides some evidence on the nexus of heritage and innovation with some insights for other design actors keen to compete globally from a local position.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationDesign Culture(s). Cumulus Conference Proceedings Roma 2021
Subtitle of host publicationSeries 7
EditorsLoredana Di Lucchio, Lorenzo Imbesi, Angela Giambattista, Viktor Malakuczi
Place of Publicationonline
Pages2931-2941
Number of pages11
Volume2
Publication statusPublished - 1 Oct 2021

Publication series

NameCumulus Conference Proceedings
Number7
Volume2
ISSN (Print)2490-046X

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