“Cloth Uncut” recently visited Kilcreggan Primary. “Cloth Uncut” is a primary school visual arts programme. Pupils were challenged to create a piece of cloth which represented Scotland’s welcome to the Commonwealth Games. Pupils at Kilcreggan Primary enjoyed working in vertical (mixed age) groups with artist, Lee Hendrick, to create their pieces of cloth. Pupils produced several pieces of woven material using a variety of materials inspired by our Commonwealth twinned nations, Swaziland and Cyprus. One group produced a piece of printed cloth based on iconic images of Scotland and include the words of support and encouragement to competitors “You’re on Fire!”
The project took place over 2 and half days and all pupils participated, having a great day, learning all sorts of new skills. We are going to use our woven cloth as pennants for our sports day teams.