Mono-Material Library: Designers Sophia Fenlon + Stephanie Rolph What is the Mono-Material Library? The Mono-material Library aims to showcase how mono-material design, created with a single fibre such as wool, can achieve diverse textures, forms, and functions through engineered use of woven structures. This innovative approach shifts focus from selecting fibres based on their inherent ..read more

Dash and Miller Studio Assistant Job Role Full time role, 35 hours per week, salary dependent on experience. Dash & Miller studio specialises in the concept design and R&D of woven textiles and fabric innovation. They combine traditional hands-on processes with cutting-edge technology and digital skills, offering a unique understanding of materials and manufacturing within ..read more

Tristan Hoare is delighted to present a dual exhibition of works by French weaver Marie Hazard and ceramics by Japanese artist Masaomi Yasunaga, curated by Sonya Tamaddon. Both threading and ceramics embody notions of being enmeshed, finding connections, coming apart, thus disclosing multiple incarnations, formats, densities, and textures. In the woven works of Hazard and in the ceramic vessels of Yasunaga, the artists make a poignancy of the familiar by allowing rituals of life and their affiliated embellishments to be misconstrued. Both artists engage in radical acts to bring their artw ..read more

Role: Head of Product Development: Maternity Cover The role is to commence in August 2024 under a fixed-term contract (12-13 months) PT Role, 24 hours per week, salary dependent on experience Bristol Weaving Mill (BWM) work across both fashion and interiors, designing, developing, and manufacturing woven products and fabric for a variety of outcomes. End uses include but are not limited to Ready to Wear and Couture Menswear and Womenswear fabrics, finished shawls and scarfs, interior drapery, tapestry panels, upholstery fabric and finished interior soft accessories and products such as throws ..read more

Woven Optical Illusions: Patten and Design from Four to 24 Shafts is authored by Stacey Harvey-Brown and Katharina Kronig. Published by The Crowood Press Ltd. ISBN no: 0719843391 Optical illusions are very much part of our time but have been around for hundreds of years. They never cease to fascinate. Woven Optical Illusions is a newly published book which explores how these effects can translate into woven cloth, the scientific background behind illusory effects and how they can inspire the handloom weaver to develop their creativity. There are five different chapters, each looking into ..read more

Role to commence in June/July 2024 under a 1 year fixed-term contract, 35 hours per week. Salary £21,000 per annum. The Bristol Weaving Mill Ltd are looking for an organised and proactive weaving mill Production Assistant with advanced knowledge of woven textiles, and meticulous attention to detail. Reporting directly to the Production Manager this role requires a confident and skilled hand-weaver with an interest in industrial manufacturing and sustainable textiles. The successful applicant will have excellent communication skills, be self-motivated and hard-working, able to follow instructio ..read more

Woven / Unwoven is a major new exhibition of artworks by Laura Thomas at Ruthin Craft Centre, open from the 30th September – 7th January 2024. The exhibition represents a distillation of all of Laura’s areas of interest in working with thread, making both woven and unwoven works. The transformation of passive threads, held taut on a loom to be woven into a fabric or placed into position to be encapsulated in glass or resin has kept her transfixed for over two decades and is at the very root of this collection of works. Laura uses threads as lines to evoke what captures her attention in the wor ..read more

Double Weave: Bourne and Allen’s Modernist Textiles This autumn, Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft will be marking ten years since their major redevelopment with an exhibition about the museum’s co-founder Hilary Bourne (1909 – 2004) and Barbara Allen (1903 – 1972), her partner in life and creative practice. The pair ran an internationally successful textile studio, designing and making a variety of fabrics – tweed for Fortnum & Mason, furnishing fabric for Heal’s and scarves for Liberty. The turning point in their career came in 1951, when they won the competition to design and make textile ..read more

 Theo Moorman Trust Applications for grants are invited from weavers living and working in the UK. Those who have recently completed higher education need to have two and a half years working experience before applying. Grants are available to enable weavers to purchase equipment and materials; take a sabbatical to reassess the creative nature of their work; pursue a specific project; or develop in any other way approved by the Trustees. The closing date for applications is 1 February 2024 Criteria and application forms are available here Email application and good quality images to the T ..read more

Whitchurch Silk Mill is looking for a Trainee Weaver who is keen to learn about making silk on their Victorian machinery. As a working museum, they need someone with a practical hands-on approach with a genuine interest in heritage and weaving silk on tappet and dobby looms. During this one-year training post the trainee will learn how to wind, warp and weave and work in this working museum in the heart of the Hampshire countryside. The Trainee Weaver will receive: Full time, paid placement £19,000 pa Training in the operation of a Grade Two* listed Silk Mill, including winding, warping, weavi ..read more