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. Light and layering play integral roles to both, harnessing fabric’s compelling contradictions: a provider of structure and delicacy; weight and softness. Dedicated to using what is already in circulation, she seeks to transform material through process – dyeing, felting or constructing textile into novel forms. Her work has been exhibited in contemporary craft gallery Bard, Edinburgh, since 2023 and she will be showing new interior textile works in a solo exhibition at Mote 102, Leith, in September 2025.

She also works widely on collaborative projects, including: designing textiles for clothing and interiors with Toogood (2016-present); co-curating the State of Fashion Biennial, Arnhem (2024); developing textile sculptures with Do Ho Suh (2021-24); creating a bacteria-dyed silk jacket with Faber Futures (2023); developing materials for Cecilia Vicuña’s Brain Forest Quipu at Tate Modern (2022) and working with textile reuse design agency ReWeave (2021-23).