What would Mackintosh have designed if he had been able to use digital textile printing technology?
This is one question raised by a new exhibition called Mackintosh Re-interpreted: Original Sketches to Digitally Created Fabrics which opens at the Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow, on 5 September 2008. This pioneering display presents original Mackintosh textile design sketches from the Hunterian collections alongside new interpretations which have been developed by the Centre for Advanced Textiles (CAT), The Glasgow School of Art, through an innovative combination of state-of-the art digital technology and archival research. CAT was established in 2000 and provides cutting-edge fabric printing facilities and expertise to a wide range of clients from fashion and accessory designers (Giles Deacon, Alexander McQueen, Mulberry), interior designers and manufacturers to bars and restaurants, museums, artists and photographers. Charles Rennie Mackintoshs architecture and furniture designs are well documented, but the textiles he designed at the end of his career are largely unkn
