Creating a Voluntary Garment Manufacturing Hub using experimental and recycled materials towards Sleeping Jackets which will be distributed free of charge to Homeless individuals.
2023
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2024
It is proposed that the academics work with their contacts who are a group of ‘volunteers’ working in connection with the Edinburgh Tool Library’s ‘Volunteers Assembly’, to create a series of prototyp...
Funder: Scottish Funding Council | Value: £5,000
Measuring the capabilities of new, sustainable materials in digital and traditional craft practices towards repeatability and a widening of their usage.
2022
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2022
This project offers a novel way of engaging with data about creative practice: getting data on the possibilities and best practices for using particular materials out of the heads of individual creati...
Funder: Arts & Humanities Research Council | Value: £5,000
Development of 3D printing techniques, utilising sustainable polymers towards towards bespoke millinery outcomes
2021
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2021
To design and innovate hat designs for rapid prototyping using biodegradable material options in 3D printing.
Funder: Scottish Funding Council | Value: £5,000
Creating a sustainable, desirable solid and soft product utilising used, previously non ‘upcycle-able’ textiles
2019
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2020
We’re looking to develop a pet bedding design from re-used bedding material (Sheets, Duvets, Mattresses & Pillows). The idea is to make a product that is highly functional in nature and also well desi...
Funder: Scottish Funding Council | Value: £5,000
Utilising 3D printable leather composite materials towards repair, reuse and increased longevity of leather products
2019
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2019
Leather is used in many luxury and utilitarian goods in our daily life. While many leather products, previously thought of as heirlooms, have become more replaceable and throwaway, many still aspire t...
Funder: The Scottish Institute for Remanufacture | Value: £49,882
My Bonnie Coo
2018
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2018
The aim of this project is to design and prototype a new, flatpack, low carbon home accessory for the Scottish tourist, domestic and export markets, using an eco-friendly alternative to medium density...
Funder: Scottish Funding Council | Value: £4,958
Towards sustainable textiles – can fungi be used to produce useful textile materials?
2018
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2018
The textile industry is based largely on the use of cotton, leather and oil derived polymers and these industries are resource intensive and not sustainable. For example, cotton production requires va...
Funder: Edinburgh Innovations Ltd | Value: £7,500
The Wee Tie Company: Innovation Voucher
2018
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2018
Development of a working prototype for the "Wee Tie", a new fashion accessory for wearing with open-necked shirts. Our input will be to look at materials and fastening/adjusting mechanisms at the back...
Funder: Scottish Funding Council | Value: £5,000
New Processes for Tranforming Unexploited Textiles into High Value Products
2016
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2017
This project proposes utilising high quality Scottish ‘unused’ textiles, including pieces of yarn and fabric that are too small to be used in apparel or upholstery production, in a ‘powdered’ form. Th...
Funder: Heriot Watt University | Value: £43,936
Enhancing the authenticity and sustainability of the visitor heritage experiences through 3D printing technology
2014
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2015
This project proposes to offer an alternative approach to the contemporary heritage souvenir experience through the utilization of 3D scanning and printing and online, remote interfaces between the mu...
Funder: Arts & Humanities Research Council | Value: £33,250