Job: Project Manager | Humphries Weaving

Project Manager: Humphries Weaving

About 

Humphries Weaving design and weave bespoke fabrics for historic institutions, interior designers, architects, artists and ecclesiastical projects. They are one of three esteemed companies weaving at Sudbury Silk Mills. The mill is fully vertical, including fabric design, yarn dyeing, warping, weaving and finishing and is OEKO-TEX® STeP accredited and received a King’s Award for Sustainable Development in 2025.

They are searching for a Project Manager to join their established team. You will project manage the fabric design development process with their clients, known internally as an Account Manager.

The role
· This is your opportunity to be the face of Humphries Weaving and develop exceptional relationships to deliver sustainable, profitable growth through new business development within existing customers, new customers and new territories.
· You will promote the capabilities of the company, to internal and external stakeholders, and hold responsibility for market development, customer relationships and distribution channels, including working with specifiers and introducers.
· You will need to develop a great understanding of our markets, using intelligence to develop a strategic sales plan maximising opportunities and mitigating risks.
· Most importantly, you will be responsible for maintaining the high standards of service, providing their customers with the best solutions to their needs.
· You will be actively involved in product development, innovation and improvements across the business.
· This is a textile-product development driven role; generating inspirational fabrics from client briefs, through design decisions, yarn combinations, sophisticated colouring and inspiring presentation of developments.
· Whether contemporary or historic recreation, understanding the project scope and context to make appropriate recommendations and guide the client through the development and decision-making process.

Who are they looking for?
At Humphries Weaving, they recognise that learning is a continuous part of everyday life, you will be given the opportunity to learn and develop. To be successful in this role you will need a particular set of skills and experience which include;
· Someone with proven commercial experience who enjoys nurturing exceptional relationships with distinguished clients.
· A person that is highly organised and energised by managing numerous concepts and projects concurrently from inception, through development and manufacturing to delivery.
· You will be detail orientated and methodical in your approach with the resolve to achieve successful project outcomes.
· Have strong communication skills, able to adapt tone, language and presentation style
appropriately.
· An authentic interest in heritage textiles, historic environments and decorative arts; with a sensitivity to colour, texture and an appreciation of contemporary creative design and craft.
· Aptitude of a good team player, providing positive contributions to the team and supporting others. Holding a strong focus on execution of ideas and successful project conclusions.
· Someone who proactively considers innovation and improvement activity as part of their daily approach.
· Ability to create and implement an active development plan to maximise market and geographical opportunities and promote their capabilities, you will set and manage a budget.
· This is a mill-based role in Sudbury, Suffolk but the flexibility and enthusiasm to travel in the UK and internationally is required.
· You will be representing Humphries Weaving within the market, at industry events and networking opportunities

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Job: Account Manager | Stephen Walters

Stephen Walters are looking for an Account Manager to join their established team.

Stephen Walters is recognised internationally for its high quality and excellent service, boasting a rich heritage spanning 300 years as a family-owned business. Operating within a supportive environment emphasising shared values and continuous improvement, the role offers a competitive salary, benefits, and profit-sharing opportunities.

Responsibilities include serving as the face of Stephen Walters, fostering exceptional relationships to drive sustainable, profitable growth through new business development across existing customers, new customers, and new territories.

Key duties entail promoting company capabilities to internal and external stakeholders,
overseeing market development, customer relations, distribution channels, and collaborating with agents. The role requires a deep understanding of markets, strategic sales planning, maintaining high service standards, and contributing to product development and innovation.
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Job: Woven Textiles Pathway Leader (Maternity Cover) | Central Saint Martins UAL

Woven Textiles Pathway Leader (Maternity cover). Central Saint Martins, UAL

Application deadline: 15th June 2025
Interviews: 7th July 2025

Full details link here

Purpose of the role
The Pathway Leader in Woven Textiles is responsible for teaching, curriculum development, and on-going scholarship on the BA (Hons) Textile Design. This course is part of the Jewellery, Textiles and Materials Programme at Central Saint Martins. The post-holder will work collaboratively within a course team, deploying specialist expertise to develop pedagogy and the curriculum in innovative and critical directions.

The post-holder will be expected to undertake:
• Academic leadership for the woven textiles pathway.
• Responsibility for stage 2 and 3 woven textiles undergraduate students’ pastoral support, progress and attendance, maintaining records and liaising with colleagues as appropriate.
• Pedagogic and curriculum development that stimulate thought and practice that challenge the canon of woven textiles with the aim of promoting diversity and inclusivity.
• Expand the capacity of the course design to inspire students in their creative practice and professional goals.
• Effective management and inspiring leadership within the woven textiles pathway, working collaboratively within the wider textiles team.

The post-holder is expected to uphold and implement the policies and procedures of University of the Arts London and the College.

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Amélie Crépy | Exhibition: ‘Traces of Nature’: Oak Gall Ink Natural Dye Textile Launch | London Craft Week

Amélie Crépy is launching her own interior upholstery fabric collection in collaboration with internationally renowned Gainsborough Silk Weaving Company and the natural dye specialists AO Textiles. Woven in 70% linen and 30% silk, this fabric has been exclusively developed with a natural dye derived from oak galls formed by wasp larvae, and will be unveiled for the first time at Amelie’s solo exhibition during London Craft Week.

Venue:
67 York Street Gallery, London W1H 1QB
Dates: 12-18 May 2025
To fulfil her long held vision to create a fabric using dye from natural dyes, she partnered with AO Textiles and Gainsborough Silks where natural dyes extracted from plants such as madder, weld, and chestnut are used to colour yarn. These yarns are now effectively used for jacquard weaving for the ultimate sustainable luxury. Creating black using natural dyes though had been notoriously challenging for AO Textiles. At Amelie’s request, and after extensive experimentation, they perfected a recipe using Oak Galls and introduced this new biodegradable black dye designed specifically for linen.

Amelie is so proud to be showing this exquisite and unique textile at London Craft Week. It has been an amazing journey and the support from AO Textiles and Gainsborough Silks has been invaluable. Together they have demonstrated that fabrics dyed using naturally derived colour from sustainable sources is not only possible but scalable, repeatable, and of the high-quality required by today’s textile industry. This has also been Amelie’s continued quest: to challenge mindsets and inspire others to consider how art and textiles can contribute to a healthier, more sustainable environment. Continue reading →

Publication: Krokbragd – Contemporary Weaving With Colour Author: Angie Parker

Krokbragd – Contemporary Weaving With Colour is a practical guide to all aspects of a popular Norwegian weaving technique. With over 400 photographs and step-by-step instruction, it gives a detailed account of the techniques used by the author and other contemporary weavers. Written for weavers of all abilities, it features vibrant designs and patterns, and shows how this age-old Scandinavian technique can be given a 21st century twist to create stunning contemporary work.

Angie Parker has a worldwide reputation for weaving krokbragd, and her passion for this technique shines through in her work. Her expertly-executed rugs, wall hangings, furnishings and artworks are known for their joyful colour combinations, as well as their exquisite finishing. In addition to exhibiting and selling her work, she regularly teaches and is a passionate advocate for running a profitable craft business, and the sustainability of craft practices for the contemporary maker.

Text & Image: Courtesy of Crowood Press

Exhibition: Around The World With 80 Textile Artists | Louise Lemieux Bérubé

Around The World with 80 Textile Artists is being exhibited at MUMAQ – Musée des métiers d’arts du Québec from December 12th 2024 to March 9th 2025.

The exhibition, a celebration of textile arts on a global scaled is curated by Marie-France Bégis, and  invites visitors to explore a highly personal and universal project, the result of the relationships forged over a 40-year career.

In 2022, on the eve of her 80th birthday, Louise Lemieux Bérubé began an ambitious project, the result of 40 years of career and collaborations with textile artists from all over the world.

From 1997 to 2016, Louise shared her expertise in Jacquard weaving with more than 400 participants at the Montreal Center for Contemporary Textiles, as well as through universities and international events. These enriching encounters inspired her new project, Around the World with 80 Textile Artists, a vibrant tribute to the diversity and uniqueness of the artistic practices that have marked her career.

This project was structured around three key stages:
1. Reconnecting: Through the Internet, Louise invited 80 international artists to contribute to her project, rekindling exchanges with this precious artistic community.
2. Imagining and creating: The artist has dedicated herself to the design of an innovative
work, combining different textile techniques and integrating for the first time the
knotting of paper threads.
3. Discover and assemble: Participating artists each sent a package containing a piece or sample of their work, along with a souvenir text and a portrait or photo.

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Job: Theo Moorman Trust for Weavers

Theo Moorman Trust for Weavers

Vacancy: Trust Administrator

The Theo Moorman Trust for Weavers  is a small Trust that aims to support individual weavers through biennial grants.

They are recruiting an administrator to support the Trustees in this work. Applicants should be enthusiastic about textiles, with administration experience in an arts context, have good communication and computer skills.

This is a part-time role with a fixed fee of £1500 per annum.

Application deadline: February 28th 2025
Email: theomoormantrust@gmail.com for full details.

Research: Mono-Material Library x Schoenkwarteir | Sophia Fenlon + Stephanie Rolph

Mono-Material Library: Designers Sophia Fenlon + Stephanie Rolph

What is the Mono-Material Library?
The Mono-material Library aims to showcase how mono-material design, created with a single fibre such as wool, can achieve diverse textures, forms, and functions through engineered use of woven structures.

This innovative approach shifts focus from selecting fibres based on their inherent properties, to engineering, through woven structure, functionality and transforming a fabrics mechanical properties.

As an emergent area of design, mono-material designing responds directly to the climate emergency by prioritising material or product recyclability or biodegradability at the end of life. This project has evolved from the Designers shared interest in the role textiles can play in achieving Net Zero.

Mono-Material Library x Schoenenkwartier
This collaboration challenged conventional approaches to woven design and shoemaking through an interdisciplinary partnership. This process driven project explores how jacquard and dobby weaving can be used to create mono-material footwear uppers. Focusing on the ability to engineer multi-layer woven textiles on- loom and then transform them through finishing techniques to create functional footwear components. Through an in depth exploration of woven structure, the project investigates how to strategically engineer areas of flexibility, rigidity, stretch and cushioning where required within the uppers.

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Job: Dash and Miller Studio Assistant

Dash and Miller Studio Assistant Job Role
Full time role, 35 hours per week, salary dependent on experience.
Dash & Miller studio specialises in the concept design and R&D of woven textiles and fabric innovation. They combine traditional hands-on processes with cutting-edge technology and digital skills, offering a unique understanding of materials and manufacturing within the wider industrial and ecological contexts.

This role is predominantly an administrative and sales role, and requires a passion for international travel, along with excellent organisation, communication and planning skills. Experience with hand-woven design and a full driving license is essential.

Studio Management:
• General studio admin including archiving, sourcing, market research.
• Managing Studio Intern program.
• Induction of interns, delegating tasks and providing any basic training and support required.
• Stock check and procurement to ensure smooth running of day-to-day operations.
• Responding to all general enquires or directing to the appropriate member of the D+M team.
• Attending weekly meetings and updating the studio calendar with real-time information.
• Maintaining communication with global agents, scheduling the D+M portfolio and archive to be sent to agents between studio sales trips and trade shows in line with studio calendar.
• General logistics and shipping of samples, client projects and the D+M collection.
• Organising freelance designers work and technical files, communicating deadlines to freelancers, giving feedback on design-work and recording freelance invoices.
• On-boarding new freelancers, communicating requirements for technical files and design format. Ensuring all freelancers have any resources they require.
• Preparing and sending out of technical files for sold designs, liaising with client’s suppliers where necessary.
• Photographing D+M portfolio for online digital collection, editing and uploading files.
• Keeping the studio tidy, general housekeeping. Ensuring yarns and ongoing project work is organised and/or archived. Continue reading →

Exhibition: Marie Hazard & Masaomi Yasunaga

Tristan Hoare is delighted to present a dual exhibition of works by French weaver Marie Hazard and ceramics by Japanese artist Masaomi Yasunaga, curated by Sonya Tamaddon. Both threading and ceramics embody notions of being enmeshed, finding connections, coming apart, thus disclosing multiple incarnations, formats, densities, and textures. In the woven works of Hazard and in the ceramic vessels of Yasunaga, the artists make a poignancy of the familiar by allowing rituals of life and their affiliated embellishments to be misconstrued. Both artists engage in radical acts to bring their artworks to life, stripping their chosen mediums of their centuries-long ties to function.

Hazard and Yasunaga embody the spirit of termite artists, a term coined by Manny Farber in 1962 to articulate an artist’s lack of ambition towards gilt culture but rather a squandering, beaverish endeavour in their approach to art-making. While pottery is typically formed by clay, fired in a kiln and sealed with a finishing coat of glaze, Yasunaga employs glaze as his primary material from which he builds his sculptural works, enlisting fire as his sculpting tool. Each fragile glazed construction is prepared for firing by an act of burial under protective layers of sand and kaolin which organically fuse together in the kiln. After ceding a measure of control to fortuity in the firing stage, Yasunaga unearths the object, enacting a ritual performance of interment, transformation, exhumation. This process is influenced by the Japanese doll making method of Hariko, a papier-mâché technique introduced to Japan between the 8th and 12th centuries.

In the spring of 2020 Yasunaga introduced found stones and mosaic tiles into this practice. Deepening both the notion of the termite process to the work and an element of chance, Yasunaga began deploying tiles to the surface of his works prior to firing them. Yasunaga recalls, “this discomfort indicated the possibility that my own boundaries of beauty existed around the periphery.” In his practice, objects once functional with human activities are reconsidered in a state of material death and it is through this process the artist’s pursuit of beauty lies. With these innovations in non-functional, expressive ceramics, Yasunaga extends the influence of this process into the 21st century towards a significant collective reconsideration of what ceramic sculpture has been throughout its history and what it can become.

This notion of time and materiality also lies central to Hazard’s practice. Hazard’s medium of choice is weaving, drawing upon studies of pastel on paper, photography, painting, printmaking, and literature as research materials to inform her works conceived on the loom. Etymologically the word “text” is derived from the Latin word “texere” meaning woven. Pre-Columbian textiles were made for communication prior to the adaptation of written language. If one looks closely they may find a phrase by Rimbaud delicately disguised into Hazard’s weavings – “on ne part pas” (we are here forever). Continue reading →