Bard x Lou

Cushion Collection 2025

In 2025 I was thrilled to develop a collection of cushions in collaboration with Scottish contemporary craft gallery, Bard. Using a range of byproduct material from the textile industry, I developed a variety of textures that softly explore different rocky motifs.


Photographs by Murray Orr

Cashmere Selvedge 

These cushions have been created using selvedge from a Scottish cashmere mill, turning a by-product from their manufacturing into seductively stroke-able cushions. The cashmere strips are stitched into a black wool base and interspersed with gold tabs. The effect is like sedimentary rock with glints of gold embedded within.


Architectural Forms
Using a combination of wool and cashmere offcuts, these cushions have been assembled from series of designs based on abstract drawings of Edinburgh’s architectural panoply. The geometric material appliqués result in a collection of elegant and graphic cushions, with a pleasing textural playfulness.

Felted Stones

These cushions have been made by salvaging loom tape, preserving the messy edge left by industrial weaving. It is typically trimmed off before the cloth is rolled and sold to the garment industry. These long, messy centipedes have been sewed to a wool back cloth before boiling them to re-introduce structure to the fibres. The resulting textile becomes something closer to felt, recalling the material’s sheepy origins.

Stacking Stones

These freeform, hand-painted cushions, softly depict stacking and standing stones, on wool or linen-cotton blend bases. Originally painted as large landscape textiles, they’ve then been divided the painting into series of square and rectangular cushions, each bearing her brush marks as an abstract echo of the full composition they once belonged to.

Standing Stones

All pieces are available at Bard’s beautifully curated space in Leith, Edinburgh, or online at Bard, Scotland.