Garvald Textiles (Garvald Edinburgh)provide creative opportunities for adults with learning disabilites. Using high quality natural materials we produce a range of beautiful textiles, both apparel and interiors.

Mariam Syed is a passionate woven Textile Designer who designs and weaves fabrics for fashion and interiors in her Glasgow workshop. Mariam’s design practise encapsulates everything she is passionate about: weaving, vibrant colours, architecture and geometry. A mathematician at heart, geometric patterns are quite central to her woven designs. Fascinated with the visual culture of her home city Karachi, Mariam is in awe of the vibrant coloured Pakistani trucks set against the magnificent Colonial British Architecture. Pakistani trucks look like giant kaleidoscopes of brilliant colours and patterns; much like an art gallery on wheels!

A weaver in natural fibres utilising antique hand looms. Nell weaves sea and mountain, coast and peak, capturing movement, pattern and texture to create textiles embedded with underlying codes and a significance of place, time and memory. Nell’s work has been exhibited at the New Ashgate Gallery, the National Centre for Craft and Design, and has been featured in the Financial Times and profiled on the Artist Support Pledge.Nell is a member of the Crafts Council.

I weave homewares and wearables in my Burntisland studio, situated in a heritage railway building overlooking The Forth and across to Edinburgh. I weave on a beautiful wooden traditional Swedish floorloom. My inspiration comes from the local marine and built environment and also Scandinavian textile design and colour palette. Traditional weaves are given a contemporary aesthetic and are woven with high quality luxurious lambswools, cotton and linen, organic where possible.

Balgarvie Weaving is the work of Textile designer Janet Hughes, who works from her home town of Cupar Fife. Educated at the Scottish college of textiles. Janet draws on her industrial textile design and manufacturing experience to offer limited edition fabric and accessories blending contemporary woven structures and traditional weaving practises. Janet enjoys the process and makes her work by hand in her studio on traditional wooden hand looms utilising industrial surplus/ waste yarn.Janet finds weaving to be a methodical and at times mindful craft and through repetition finds creativity. With the setup of her own design studio Janet enjoys the freedom of designing bold yet lightweight fabrics in her signature deflected double cloth structure, playing with colours, patterns and the natural properties of the yarns differential shrinkage to give tactile as well as visual textures to her fabrics that are accentuated whilst being worn.

Aamos Designs is a unique and talented textile design company, who specialise in contemporary woven textiles, owned by designer Emma Geddes, a 2006 graduate of the Glasgow School of Art. Emma is based in Shetland, she works from an energetic studio at her home in Burra. She is motivated to design original woven textiles, honouring traditional techniques, updating them to create unique and luxurious hand woven fabrics, for fashion and interiors. She is also known for her playful but confident use of colour, and contemporary use of time-honoured woven structures.

Chantal is a woven designer based in Glasgow, who draws visual reference for her work from geometric & structural forms whether manmade or natural. ‘The reason I create fabrics & products is primarily because I love the challenge, processes & patience required. Being able to mix different colours & textures together in a way that lets me translate visual research into a woven piece gives me great personal satisfaction. I really just like to make beautiful cloth, the touch, smell & texture of it, & the feeling of being wrapped in something created by hand from a craft steeped in history.’

Hopipola Handwovens is the studio of handweaver and textile designer Kirsty Odds, who works from her garden studio in Aberlady. She creates fresh, contemporary woven pieces, predominantly for use in interiors and accessories, on traditional looms.

Bonny Claith luxury scarves and accessories are designed and handwoven by Cally Booker. Cally chooses to work with the highest quality natural materials, because she believes in beauty that lasts: blends of wool and silk which are light and luxurious; natural colour from the yarn itself, and from traditional dyestuffs which are vibrant but gentle and easy-to-wear. Like a live jazz performance, every piece is a unique expression of the distinctive and colourful Bonny Claith style

Newburgh Handloom Weavers are specialist producers of high quality, hand-woven tweed and cloth. Situated by the River Tay, in the North-East of Fife, our cloth is handwoven on traditional wooden handlooms built by Thomas Kennedy of Galashiels, a loom maker established in 1870. We produce a wide range of traditional tweeds, blankets, including bespoke tweeds designed and made to order for both individual and commercial clients. We weave our cloth using pure new wool from around the British Isles. This produces a warm and fine, yet hard-wearing cloth perfect for tailoring, dress-making, upholstery and furnishings.

Based in South East London Charlotte Grierson has been designing and hand weaving for over 20 years. She uses weave structures and a variety of yarns to create textured compositions, which are stretched over canvases. Her collections of hand woven scarves use natural materials; silk, linen and merino. Designed to be timeless and individual these scarves are all handwoven one-off pieces. Charlotte also has a collection of mill woven scarves, designed and sampled in her studio and woven in the UK.

Sally Weatherill studied art history and printed/woven textiles in the US before moving to the UK. Here she set up a studio on the Suffolk/Essex border where she designs and produces woven fabrics for fashion and interiors. Distinctive in its rich colour and textural interest, her work draws references from the world of art as well as from daily experience to create designs that are modern yet timeless. Woven primarily with UK sourced lambswool from a family run business ensures the best quality. Sally’s luxurious fabrics are handmade in the UK in limited editions to preserve their uniqueness.

I am a hand weaver based in Leith, Edinburgh. I predominately weave using merino lambswool, enjoying the colour variations one gets from this colourful and versatile yarn. I am enjoying examining how many ways I can interpret differing stitched marks and patterns through the medium of weave on a 32 shaft Megado loom; my pride and joy! As well as stitched marks I am currently obsessed by all things denim, sampling is continually evolving as to how I can weave these two trains of thoughts together. I will presenting another mini collection of new woven works at Winter GLOW.