Yarrow Frost
Yarrow Frost brings her passion for traditional crafts into a new light through her work in costume for theatre and film. Her costumes play with our perception of the body, redefining its shapes through lines and texture.
Yarrow's work centres around the use of recycled materials, and often takes inspiration from nature, particularly plantlife and fungi. A recent piece, created for a performance piece called Rhyze to Morph by Nomoss, was created entirely from repurposed and upcycled fabrics sourced from local charity shops, using them to recreate natural fungi-like textures.
Yarrow is currently working in restoration at the Leith Toy Hospital, where she restores a wide variety of toys, vintage and new, using handmaking techniques from across the ages.
Yarrow's Piece for Forgotten Fleece Tales
Yarrow has created a hand-woven coat using waste yarn from local mills, collected by the Selkirk Scrapstore, alongside hand spun and naturally dyed wools. The coat takes on a life of its own, able to stand by itself as if worn by an invisible figure, thanks to warp threads made from mouldable copper wire.
This piece explores the link between the female body and realm of textile crafts. By incorporating symbolic representations of scars and stretch marks into the design, she invites viewers to explore their perception of the female body, and to view marks left on the body by time and trauma as a physical map of a life, rather than something to be hidden away.
Yarrow chose materials which, like the human body, have stories to show. By combining waste wool with hand-dyed threads from her mother's sewing box, she explores both the idea of finding new beauty in old, used things and the longstanding tradition of handicrafts and materials being passed down the generations from mother to daughter.
