WOVEN FORM

SOFTLY DOES IT

Charlotte Wakefield fell in love with weaving while doing a Textiles Design degree at Brighton University. She went on to work in the fashion industry as a fabric buyer and developer, but always yearned to return to the loom. A few years ago, she took the plunge and set up Woven Form, creating beautiful handwoven textile art pieces from her home studio in south-east London.

WASTE NOT

From her experience of working in fashion, she was all too familiar with the waste created by the textile industry, and didn’t want her own business to add to the problem. She asked a few mills about the possibility of repurposing yarns that would otherwise have been discarded, and got a positive response. Now she receives regular boxes of deadstock yarns – including mohair, lambswool, alpaca and cotton flag – that she turns into beautiful works of art.

ARTFULLY MADE

Each piece is a one-off design loosely inspired by architecture, and with an emphasis on texture, colour combinations and patterns. ‘When I sit down at the loom, I don’t always know what I’m going to weave,’ says Charlotte.

‘It’s a very organic way of working, which I really enjoy.’