Behind the scenes: Prop making

Toby was one of the first to join the Silk is the Soul Ambassadors team, made of young people from the town. Their role was to over-see the project, from creating the initial designs, making decisions about social media, website and marketing,  and creating a permanent display at the museum for presenting the final 360 video.

Fallibroome Academy Drama students experimented with various silk inspired material and props, creating movements and abstract narrative for the 360 video.

Silk is the Soul Ambassadors created patterns on the floor of heritage site locations inspired by pattern books from the silk museum.

Dance students at the Fallibroome Academy created costumes and props for their interventions, considering how they would interact with heritage sites for the filming in 360.

Drama students at the Fallibroome Academy planned a range of scenes, from small intimate duos or trios to interventions involving up to 30 students.

Project Inc students created capes inspired by printed silk maps which were used during the war. Their contemporary versions of the maps were illustrations of the World Wide Web.

Project Inc students were interested in creating a character representing the dark side of the silk heritage. He appears, sometimes on his own, sometimes as a duo or trio, throughout the 360 video.

Drama students at the Fallibroome Academy created costumes inspired by cocoons, metamorphosis, and the lives of the weavers…

Drama students at the Fallibroome Academy used threads as a metaphor for the connections between people in Macclesfield, how the mills and the silk industry linked every aspect of life in the town…