Sarah Beth is a textile designer and artist predominantly specialising in the craft of weaving. She explores playful textural surfaces and form changing textiles created through the deep study of material manipulation and the varying interplay between fibres, woven structures and finishing techniques. Fruitioning an engaging haptic experience within the work is as significant as the visual impact, thus every design developed is underpinned by hand craftsmanship. 

 

Sarah work’s intuitively with a range of materials including handspun regeneratively farmed natural fibres, deadstock yarns, and other bitsy threads often left over from previous projects. Every material is consciously selected with a continued intent to reduce waste, limit the use of virgin synthetics, as well as celebrate material diversity not only for their various properties but also as an urge to delineate away from the wider industry’s overdependence of inorganic cotton and polyester.  

 

Hand weaving is at the core of Sarah’s main practice; the set boundaries, methodical and mathematical nature imposed by the discipline is what appeals to her working within this medium. Equally, Sarah compliments her studious approach to weaving by sometimes delving into and integrating where appropriate her appreciation for alternative textile making processes including natural dyeing, embroidery and print. Accordingly, she is material and process led and motivated by the surveying of material personalities. Inspiration derives from multiple sources from plants to children’s toys, but the outcomes all hinge on producing tactile and 3D surfaces that simultaneously materialise unexpected visual qualities. 

 

Ultimately, Sarah is interested in how the design of texturally diverse and malleable textiles, applicable across fashion, interiors and art, can inhabit a multi-sensory experience and incentivise longevity of use, consequently reducing waste.