Blog
Explore our blog for a selection of useful guides, articles of interest and our member’s profiles.
Zoey Xuewen
To appreciate and enhance the value of Chinese traditional crafts & fine jewellery, we aim to bring its authentication and delicacy into the process of making with creativity. Zoey Filigree develops a variety of workshops to spread the specialised skills to the local community and narrow the distance between royal craftsmanship culture and contemporary jewellery practice.
Ray Zheng
Jeweller and researcher based in London, born in 1997 in Urumqi, China. Completed BA at Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology of Jewelry Design and came to Goldsmiths, University of London in 2019. She understands jewellery as a formulating object for body/individual expression that questions value, obsessions, needs and survival. She gets gravitated by design methods like sensing, storytelling, and the use of actions, and materials to comport matters moving towards social politics, culture and traditions, looking for more possibilities through thinking and making.
MIPA Atelier
MIPA Atelier creates custom clothing, from tailored suits to dresses in any desired style or for any occasion. Each garment is handmade and altered to your specific body type considering all nuances and gaits. We focus on the quality of the product and your experience - from developing the design to fittings and finishing.
Miriam Elgon
Miriam is a London-based Illustrator, Artist and Educator. Her work encompasses drawing, painting, etching, weaving, textile design and picture books.
Andrew Pierce
Andrew is a furniture maker and designer who primarily tig welding mild sheet steel. If you’d like to keep up to date on Andrew’s work then follow him @andrewpiercescott.
Liberty Antonia Sadler
Liberty Antonia Sadler is an artist & filmmaker based in London, working with mediums of drawing, text and moving images to explore issues of body politics.
Tihara Smith
Tihara Smith is a fashion, accessories and lifestyle brand. Founded by designer Tihara Smith after graduation from University for the Creative Arts Epsom and showing her Windrush inspired collection at Graduate Fashion Week 2018.
Mairi Gillies
Based in her London studio, Mairi Gillies has been honing her skills in woven and constructed textiles for the past several years. Originally getting into textiles at a young age, it was during her BA Hons degree in woven textile design at Central Saint Martins where she found her love for weaving.
Elena Shvab
Elena Shvab is a London-based milliner and textile designer of Russian- Israeli heritage. Taking inspiration from nature, history, contemporary art and modern culture she continually working with bold shapes and experimental textile techniques to create dramatic silhouettes that she handcrafts in her studio.
MHR studio
MHRstudio is a knitwear label from London, founded by Minnie Hill-Reid. Each piece is made to order by Minnie, in her London studio. A domestic knitting machine is used to hand-make each garment. Every design is unique and a limited edition, due to the use of dead stock yarn.