Mhari McMullan is one of a trio of textile designers invited to design a special print for Made In Glasgow by Local Heroes. McMullan’s design brings together a series of handmade marks, symbols and sketches to create a tableau of negative and positive / black and white. The title sgrafitto refers to a form of decoration made by scratching through a surface to reveal a lower layer, typically done in plaster or in slip on ceramics before firing.

“I really like to work in a way that uses the same techniques but different materials - the pattern for this scarf was developed from designs on tiles I made during a residency working with ceramics at Scottish Sculpture Workshops, hence the name sgraffito”

Mhari’s design is printed on cotton voile and is part of a trio produced by the team at The Glasgow School of Art’s Centre For Advanced Textiles (CAT) – a perfect souvenir of Glasgow design and a practical and fun accessory.