Your Honour
Collection:CSM Museum & Study Collection
Date: 2025
Artist: Ruby Rosier
Medium: Paper, polyester yarn, rayon yarn, paracord, and recycled wool stuffing
Object number: T.2025.48.CC.1-2
Description1. Bag
2. Book
A process book and prototype bag from the 'Your Honour' collection.
Description by the artist:
“Your Honour” emerged out of my experience serving as a juror on a harrowing two-week
trial at Bristol Crown Court. It seeks to untangle the duality of a juror's experiencepassive yet burdened with responsibility. Confined to the physical and emotional constraints of the jury box, I became a docile recipient of conflicting interpretations of events I hadn't witnessed.
In response, this project transforms these intangible experiences into tactile forms. I
explored original Victorian court rooms, holding cells and the food market that offered
me moments of comfort. Inspired by these themes of restriction and contradiction my
final woven collection reimagined the boundaries of fabric creation. Exploring the ways in
which 2D woven fabrics could be engineered to construct off-loom into 3D forms. I
developed a series of no-cut no-sew bags aimed at the luxury fashion accessories market.
The work that has been purchased is one of my test-bags that uses folding and crosslacing to construct from a rectangular piece of fabric into a cross-body bag. The other piece is a book that sat alongside my work at the exhibition, which highlights my entire process from concept to final product, including a photoshoot in Bristol Old Magistrates Court. The design of the book itself was inspired by the folder I was given during jury service and I had help creating it from graphic designer Ollie Stanley (@obstanley).
2. Book
A process book and prototype bag from the 'Your Honour' collection.
Description by the artist:
“Your Honour” emerged out of my experience serving as a juror on a harrowing two-week
trial at Bristol Crown Court. It seeks to untangle the duality of a juror's experiencepassive yet burdened with responsibility. Confined to the physical and emotional constraints of the jury box, I became a docile recipient of conflicting interpretations of events I hadn't witnessed.
In response, this project transforms these intangible experiences into tactile forms. I
explored original Victorian court rooms, holding cells and the food market that offered
me moments of comfort. Inspired by these themes of restriction and contradiction my
final woven collection reimagined the boundaries of fabric creation. Exploring the ways in
which 2D woven fabrics could be engineered to construct off-loom into 3D forms. I
developed a series of no-cut no-sew bags aimed at the luxury fashion accessories market.
The work that has been purchased is one of my test-bags that uses folding and crosslacing to construct from a rectangular piece of fabric into a cross-body bag. The other piece is a book that sat alongside my work at the exhibition, which highlights my entire process from concept to final product, including a photoshoot in Bristol Old Magistrates Court. The design of the book itself was inspired by the folder I was given during jury service and I had help creating it from graphic designer Ollie Stanley (@obstanley).