Interweaving Threads Residency: Open Studio
Owen Edward Snaith
Owen Edward Snaith is a Scottish designer working across fashion, textile design and mixed media art. Snaith’s work explores traditional Scottish dress, the uniforms of east coast fisherfolk and his own identity. A poetic queer thread weaves throughout his work, which is grounded in craftsmanship, collaboration, and community. These threads inform Snaith’s research and making […]
Ingrid Bjørnevog Haugnes
Ingrid Bjørnevog Haugnes is a Norwegian textile craft practitioner, artist, and designer based in Oslo. Her practice is grounded in long-term work with Norwegian folk dress and bunad, exploring garments as living structures shaped by labour, care, and repair. Working through making, sewing, and reconstruction, she moves between textile craft, contemporary art, costume, and fashion, […]
Interweaving Threads Residency: Scotland and Norway through Dress
Louise Bennetts
Louise Bennetts is an Edinburgh-based fashion and textiles designer, researcher and maker. She works independently across varied projects, with a particular interest in alternative textile systems, applications, and sustainable material innovation. Her work considers fabric as architectural form, creating spaces and textures with cloth that can be worn on the body, or adorn the home. […]
Bernat Klein Fellowships 2025
David Longshaw
Won Wern Lim
Virginia Grose
Virginia Grose is the Head of Fashion at the University of Westminster – School of Arts with a background in fashion and product development in the UK fashion industry. Having worked many years with Courtaulds Testiles on many fashion product times, Virginia developed an interest in cashmere knitwear. She has worked closely with textile and […]