Charlotte Wakefield

Charlotte Wakefield is a textile artist who focusses on creating one of a kind, handwoven textile art pieces for the home. Her style of weaving is very free, with a focus on combining different textures and colours to recreate those which are found within architecture. There is a constant use of bold colours, whilst recently she has spent time exploring with more neutral tones and really focusing on the textures, light and shadow of each piece. Every work is totally different and when she sits down at the loom, she states "I don’t always know what I am going to weave. I really enjoy working this way, it is exciting to see what comes out of each warp. It is a very organic way of working and this brings me the most enjoyment."

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Having fallen in love with weaving at university, in Brighton, she continued to explore textiles through endless experimentation, playing with the fibre, structure and colour. Now Charlotte works from her home studio space in Margate, where she hand-weaves all of the pieces in the collection, mostly being inspired by the architecture surrounding her. Citing the combinations of colours, textures and patterns used to make the built world so stunning and exciting, she uses what she sees around her, the shapes and the colours to make the organic works reminiscent of architecture.

She works with a variety of different yarns, sourcing many of them from mills and factories using up their deadstock yarns, so yarns that would be a waste product from the textile industry normally. Her focus in finding the right yarn is texture, in her works a combination of fluffy mohair, loop mohair, lambswool, alpaca, cotton flag, flecked yarns, can all be seen woven together to create subtle, soft and intriguing works.