MCR

MCR, Moderate Studio journal, 2016

A fabric and wallpaper design built entirely out of the letters M, C and R, the three letters woven over and under each other in red, grey and black until they stop reading as text and turn into a dense basket-weave. Step back and it is just pattern. Look closely and the whole thing is Manchester, said over and over.

It is a way of putting the city into the cloth without a logo or a skyline, just the initials everyone here uses, tangled up into a repeat. Printed on both fabric and paper, one of a run of designs from around then that took a word and turned it into a surface you could wear or hang.

MCR, Moderate Studio journal, 2016
MCR, Moderate Studio journal, 2016

Part of The Pattern Works.