Sword Maclean is a Scottish design practice working across leather goods, interior objects and collectible forms.
The work combines traditional craft disciplines with an interest in architectural structure, material permanence and functional restraint. Leather, woven textiles, metal and recovered materials are employed as both construction and narrative, carrying traces of landscape, labour and use.
Influenced by the material culture of Scotland's Highlands and Islands, the practice draws upon saddlery, Hebridean weaving traditions and the resourcefulness of crofting life. Through processes of assembly, adaptation and reconstruction, familiar materials are transformed into objects that occupy a space between fashion, interiors and artefact.
Each work is developed in limited numbers and assembled in Scotland.