Plaide Boglaich
Tartan for nature.
Plaide Boglaich reimagines tartan as a material for ecological repair rather than human consumption. Responding to the widespread degradation of Scottish peatlands and the collapse of the wool industry, it proposes felted wool geotextiles installed in dry, drained, and degraded peatlands that require rewetting.
These textiles are designed to host living sphagnum moss, allowing the tartan pattern to emerge through growth itself, shaped over time by moisture, acidity, and ecological conditions. In this way, tartan becomes a living, more-than-human collaborator: a substrate for regeneration that sequesters carbon, restores biodiversity, and reconnects cultural heritage with the processes of the land.
Shannon Daly
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