Textiles

Brenda Marshall Felt

Working from her studio in Birmingham Brenda combines ancient felting techniques to blend merino fibres together with sumptuous silks, luxury fibres and fabrics to create inspirational contemporary designs. Individual one off scarves, wraps, handbags and accessories.

Jill Pargeter

Jill has been working as a printmaker and designer for over thirty years after studying printed textiles at Manchester Polytechnic.

Her work is inspired by folk art and the arts and crafts movement. The designs are hand drawn and then screen printed onto fabric.

Vikki Lafford Garside

A love of nature and a passion for art and textiles led Vikki to achieve a degree in Embroidery, followed by a Master’s degree in Textile design in 2006. Since then she has worked as a designer-maker of textile accessories and also wedding dresses. In 2016 she received the awards of Best Independent Designer and Best in Show at Art Couture festival for her wearable art piece entitled ‘Ocean’s Last Gasp’.

Her work is inspired by the fairy tales, folklore and nature she appreciated as a child, as well as decorative arts and historical costume.  The designs develop from initial drawings and studies which then pass through many different processes of dye, print, stitch, cutwork and heat manipulation to create unique and entirely wearable, decorative and colourful textile accessories.