People / Mair Cook
Mair Cook creates objects for the home, united and bound by woven textiles, and rooted in a commitment to utility and beauty. Objects are our constant companions, Mair honours this relationship through the slow, deliberate process of hand-weaving, celebrating the repair of a chair or the evolution of a blanket. Mair’s work explores what objects mean to us and how that very meaningfulness could be an answer to more sustainable design and living. She crafts household sculptures, playing with material oxymoron, clashing colour and pattern. The resulting pieces are both functional and poetic, made to live with and to love.
Held Together Memo Board
My only working loom is currently in use, so I had to weave off loom. This is not new to me, I often weave directly onto furniture. On this occasion though, I wanted the woven element to be the main event. I came up with a memo board design, a simple pattern that is part decoration, part function. The bands of colour allow the user to tuck notes and photos into the structure of the weave. I used a repurposed frame to hold the linen yarn in tension, to act as a support and not a feature. The design decision to weave this way also complements my role as a mother. I am currently working in snatched pockets of time – nap time is vital making time, my parents picking up the slack. The portability of this project allowed me to work as and when, to a soundtrack of Hey Duggee.