Journal
The journal explores insights to Bernat Klein’s work and life in the Scottish Borders and the legacy he has created.
Kate Owens: Textile Artist & Maker
Kate Owens is a textile artist from Glasgow who combines printmaking with choreography, inspired by her interest in movement and her experience with a partially fixed spine.
Bernat Klein’s Colour Box: How to pull on a thread
To me, the most inspiring aspect of the Bernat Klein Foundation (BKF) is that it ‘creates new opportunities’. Part of being open to opportunity comes from the BKF’s drive to create a sense of close, almost tactile, engagement with Klein’s legacy that helps to dissolve some of the ‘glass case’ feeling of historical collections, putting us in touch with the lived experience of makers, designers, collectors, new practitioners.
Exploring the influences and inspiration of Bernat Klein through contemporary practice
The year-long project presents exhibitions, workshops and talks, funded by Creative Scotland and supported by our partners - House for an Art Lover, Live Borders, Borders Textile Towerhouse: and the University of the Highland & Islands, Perth, Moray, Outer Hebrides , Orkney and Shetland.
Alice Milivoyevich on Bernat Klein
Alice is the granddaughter of Oberyn Milivoyevich, who was Bernat Klein's Pattern House Manager at the High Mill in Galashiels in the 1960s.
Bernat Klein and Peter Womersley
Michael Wolchover reflects on the collaboration that created High Sunderland, which brings together two important strands in his career – architectural photography and textile design.
Bernat Klein’s Belarusian Master Tailor – Aleksander Pietrykiewicz
Lucy Ross is the granddaughter of Aleksander Pietrykiewicz. Here she writes a personal and moving account of her grandfather's life, and his work with Bernat Klein.
High Sunderland
Richard Brook is an Architect and Reader at the Manchester School of Architecture. His interest in Peter Womersley's buildings was sparked by a chance encounter with Farnley Hey near Huddersfield.
The Klein Studio
On the subject of the Klein Studio, the interests of the Bernat Klein Foundation and Preserving Womersley come together in graceful harmony.
The See-Through House by Shelley Klein
Lisa Mason is Assistant Curator in Modern & Contemporary Design at the National Museum of Scotland, and a Trustee of the Bernat Klein Foundation. Here she reflects on the recently published book by Shelley Klein.
Textile Designers in Exile
In this article, Anna Nyburg, an Honorary Lecturer at Imperial College London, writes about refugees whose lives were changed by the Second World War and Nazism across Europe.
2021 Bernat Klein Foundation Award
An interview with award winner Emma McLellan who is studying for a BA (Hons) in Design for Textiles at the School of Textiles and Design, Heriot-Watt University, Scottish Borders Campus.
Heriot-Watt University Project 2020
In January 2020 students in Year 3 BA (Hons) Fashion Communication at Heriot-Watt University in the Scottish Borders, were invited to participate in the project 'Bernat Klein: Colour, Texture, and Destination', the Foundation's inaugural educational award.