AN exhibition of rugs created using Herdwick wool will go on display in the Lake District this weekend.

Rocks and Roots and Ravens, by Jane Exley of The Woolly Rug Company, opens at Brantwood, in Coniston, on Saturday October 15 until the new year.

Each rug has been hand-tufted using wool from local Herdwick fell sheep, and specially designed for this exhibition, with inspiration taken from John Ruskin the geologist and John Ruskin the passionate observer and recorder of nature.

Each rug also adheres to the themes of Rocks - patterned, textured, layered, fractured, faulted, mapped, mined and quarried; Roots - both binding and splitting rocks; and Ravens - a flutter of raggedy black feathers.

Jane Exley is The Woolly Rug Company’s designer-maker. Having trained and practiced as an interior designer in Edinburgh, Jane returned to her roots in Cumbria and the area she deeply loves to establish The Woolly Rug Company, in Ambleside.

Stylish floor rugs are now hand-created in her riverside work-studio located in Ambleside, each made to a unique size, design and colour-way.

Designed for the private individual, architect and designer who appreciates how an interior can be redrawn using a naturally textured surface. These modern and unique artworks are made using the highest quality wools from a prime sheep breed, the Herdwick, and from a prime location, the English Lake District.

The design approach has a modernist restraint and elegance that keeps the artwork alive: these works are up-to-date distillations of the Lake District: semi-abstract interpretations of the slate strata and colourful flora, creatively inspired by ever-changing colour and immutable forms of this uniquely beautiful landscape.

Rocks and Roots and Ravens is on display in the Severn Studio at Brantwood, every day from 10.30am to 5pm.

Admission is included in the house or garden ticket.