Marram Field Guide: Harvest & Thatch
The Marram Field Guide is a small publication that documents the research that forms the basis of my semester two studio project: Hands in the Marram
It traces the traditions of land management and craft of the highlands; Vol. 1 looks at the management of land through harvest and regeneration. Vol. 2 explores the living tradition of thatching, through the work of Neil Nicholson on the Outer Hebrides.
Using the Welsh Marram Weavers and the Welsh governments dune regeneration trials as cultural and ecological precedent, the publication exhibits my studies of the sand dune environments around the Silver sands of Morar, through drawings that explore the vegetation and establishment of the dunes.
sand dunes and marram thatched structures, Cambusdarach and Achaid Mhoir land study