The Moorland Shroud is a hand-felted burial shroud made from locally sourced British wool. Created in the studio and constructed in sections, the cloth incorporates moss and wool hand-dyed with heather, alder, and iron, allowing plant matter and naturally dyed fibres to become embedded in the fabric.

After completion, I took the shroud up onto the moors and buried it in a peat bog for three nights. This act allowed the landscape itself to continue the making process, staining, weighing, and marking the cloth through prolonged contact with wet earth and peat. Unearthed, the shroud carries the imprint, tone, and memory of the moorland environment.

The Moorland Shroud explores burial not only as a future function but as a present-tense relationship with land, time, and material. Positioned as a threshold object between body and landscape, the work holds space between making and unmaking, presence and return.

The shroud is on show in a free exhibition with the Peat Appreciation Society at Hardcastle Craggs until 26th April.

This is a functional burial shroud, intended for use. It for sale. Please contact me if you are interested.