Texprint interviews, mentors and promotes the UK’s most talented textile design graduates with the support of industry professionals worldwide.

Those selected are introduced to buyers, press and sponsors at the Texprint London event, and at Europe and Asia’s leading yarn and textile exhibitions.

Texprint is entirely funded by the generous sponsorship of industry and by British charitable foundations, who believe wholeheartedly in supporting textile design talent and in encouraging design innovation and excellence.

The following Weave Designers were selected:-

Alice Timmis
(Photograph above)

For my final collection, I was inspired by the gestural presence that an artist gives to his or her canvas. I produced a collection of woven fashion fabrics, hand finished using a variety of experimental techniques, sometimes using unorthodox tools.  I approached some of my fabrics like an artist would his canvas, and used my weave as the base ‘coat’ for other layers including embroidery, thus breaking away from the liner restrictions of the loom.

As part of this fashion-fabric collection driven by finishing methods, I developed a technique whereby woven cloth can be manipulated and shaped directly to the body.

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Cos Ahmet has received an award from the Theo Moorman Trust to develop new work which will be exhibited at the K&S Shows across three venues later this year.

The Theo Moorman Trust for Weavers has been in existence since 1990 and aims to be a valuable resource for both young and experienced weavers. The Trustees want to ensure that the grants that are made enable individual weavers to maintain a high standard of work, and through this, to promote weaving as an art form. The Trust was established in 1985 by Theo Moorman MBE (1907-1990) and came into operation on her death.

Cos Ahmet is a multi-disciplinary artist. His practice is made up of textiles, in the form of woven tapestry, collage, printmaking and object making. His interest in textiles as a medium of exploration in to identity, self and the body uses the practicalities of the medium to discern a metaphor within the human form, representing these as: ‘thread as the thought’, ‘warp as the skeleton’, ‘weft as flesh or skin’, and ‘weave’ as the soul.
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The South East British Tapestry Group is holding their third exhibition of contemporary
woven tapestries.

The exhibition is at Hastings Arts Forum from The Mill House Gallery in a tower mill built in the 1820’s on Highdown Hill, Angmering, West Sussex.

Dates:  25th March- 4th April 2016.
Open: Tues – Sun 11.00- 17.00

In the year that Hastings is commemorating the 950 year anniversary of the Battle of Hastings with the Root 1066 International Festival of contemporary arts, it is appropriate that the British Tapestry Group brings woven tapestry to the town that is so closely connected with the embroidery called ‘The Bayeux Tapestry’.

This year the theme of the exhibition is Symbiosis. Each weaver shows their personal interpretation in their tapestry weaving, resulting in a diverse and inventive collection of work, some taking the natural world as inspiration others focus on the way that ideas interact in warp and weft.

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