Cloud Quilting is a start-up business founded by maker and arts professional Claire Sowton, which aims to offer the global quilting market new ways to embed meaning in quilt design. Scottish cultural and heritage data is central to the brand, exploring the visible and hidden meanings embedded in the process of quilting, and considering how these meanings shift and change over time and the implications for quilting futures.

Through her Resident Entrepreneur project, Claire will develop a web-based tool that allows people to use data to produce personalised quilt patterns. The Cloud Quilting website (www.cloudquilting.com) will launch in August 2022 to coincide with the 2022 Festival of Quilts.