A full roll of Burberry check, picked up from my fabric wholesaler over in Cheetham Hill, the whole nova-check pattern, camel and black and red, wound onto a bolt taller than I am. In the photos it is sitting across the print bed and then up on my shoulder on the way out, which gives a sense of the size of the thing.
A roll like this is half the fun of the work, a great bolt of a pattern everybody knows landing in the studio to do something with. The check is about as far from my own geometry as a pattern gets, rigid and posh and instantly readable, which is exactly why it was worth having around to play against.
