artist : designer : handweaver : teacher
Mill Woven Collection
With my Mill Woven Collections I have created ranges of scarves that...
Workshops
Charlotte offers a programme of workshops on weave and design topics, for weavers who want to develop their knowledge and skills .
All about making ...
Woven Canvases
I am interested in the way we read images. This collection of artwork layers pattern repeats in the weaving and sequences of stripes in the warp to create compositions.
Experimental weaving
This is a detail of an experimental piece Charlotte wove for her MA. It was woven in three layers. The blueish coloured layer is a nylon monofilament (or fishing line). The dark threads are a wire and the creamy white ones are a highly twisted silk.
The silk is what is creating the sculptural effect of the cloth. Woven in the middle layer it pulls the others in and causes a bubbling effect.
On the loom it was woven flat, but then when she took it off and washed it, the shrinkage caused 3 dimensional effect she was looking for.
"For me there was the added drama of not knowing exactly how it was going to react until this last stage, but great fun to see it change when I put it into hot water."
Recently this has been the starting point for some new work. Read more about the journey Charlotte has begun in her journal ....
Journal posts
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Continuing the Journey
At the beginning of the 2023 I embarked upon a new project with my art-led weaving. Read an update on that project including the weaving of my first major piece of...
Continuing the Journey
At the beginning of the 2023 I embarked upon a new project with my art-led weaving. Read an update on that project including the weaving of my first major piece of...
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A New Journey
I have embarked upon a new journey with my artwork. Using money from the Cockpit Textile Prize I have begun working with mentor Caroline Bartlett to develop my ideas inspired...
A New Journey
I have embarked upon a new journey with my artwork. Using money from the Cockpit Textile Prize I have begun working with mentor Caroline Bartlett to develop my ideas inspired...
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Cockpit Textile Prize
In August 2022 I was delighted to be awarded the Cockpit Textile Prize. The money from this prize had helped me to purchase table looms to start workshops, due to...
Cockpit Textile Prize
In August 2022 I was delighted to be awarded the Cockpit Textile Prize. The money from this prize had helped me to purchase table looms to start workshops, due to...
