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Wild At Home

  • Ruth Foster

Wild At Home aims to embody a stripped back and essential way of life suggested through the means of a knitted interior fabric collection, marketed at those who pine for a deeper connection to nature during the current global climate crisis. This project centres on an aesthetic surrounding the concept of naturality, using organic, natural forms and shapes as my visual inspiration, and with the end goal being interiors that allow the outside to seep indoors. On an ever-changing, fast paced, and technologically consuming planet, Wild At Home will contribute a sliver of calm and comfort to the conscious consumer’s life, by accentuating the simplicity of our earthly elements. This project acknowledges and engages with the consumer’s chase of authenticity, and it is driven towards utilising natural fibres and materials, colour palettes, and open interior spaces that will allow them to feel connected to their roots as well as nature and the environment.

Own photogrpaph, taken at Palmengarten Botanical Gardens.
Concept Board, including visual inspiration, keywords, and colour palette.
Final interior fabrics made from a combination of cotton, lambswool, recycled cotton, recycled plastic bottles, cashmere, and nettle fibre.

I use knitted structures reminiscent of woven fabrics due to their robustness, making them suitable for interior application.
A Visualisation of two final fabrics, produced in Adobe Photoshop. The original photograph is from an interior-styling photoshoot that I did in my home during the COVID-19 lockdown.
A mood board to demonstrate the kind of lifestyle I am designing for, as well as the Scandinavian-inspired design which lends itself to nature.

  • Clean
  • Simplistic
  • Light
  • Open
"Living closer to the Earth, materials are taken from the planet and given back to the earth to be composted, an early way of circular living and creating."

Trend Union c.2019
A page taken from my project Colour and Photograph book.
Visualising my design on a throw. Knitted on a Dubied, 7 Gauge machine, using racked mock ribs with plating and laying-in techniques.
Final swatches for Wild At Home are knitted on a mixture of machines, including Shima, Dubied, & Domestic.

My Shima fabrics use plush and transfer jacquard techniques, making the final outcomes cosy, textural and dense in their constructions. Shima allowed me to translate some of the motif work in my sketchbooks. The motifs are inspired by chunky Scandinavian-style furniture and some of the more natural, organic shapes in my photographic Visual Research.
Interior illustration, used to visualise my designs.
Visual communication of a Final Collection fabric, using a transfer jacquard technique. Knitted on a 14 Gauge Shima machine, this swatch is intended to be made from cotton and cashmere.
Interior illustration with my designs incorporated and applied to a rug and cushions. This Visualisation suggests open-plan living, Scandinavian design, and the concept of bringing the outdoors in through the use of indoor plants and large windows.
Cushion Visualisation, using knitted fabrics produced on a 14 Gauge Shima machine.
Visual communication of another Final Collection fabric, using a racked mock rib with plating technique. Knitted on a 7 Gauge Dubied machine, this swatch is intended to be made from cotton and nettle fibre.
Own photogrpaph, taken at Palmengarten Botanical Gardens.
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