Amber Hards is a Bristol based knitwear label, designing & making luxury knit clothes & accessories as well as high end fashion knitwear. She designs and makes everything herself from Bristol Textile Quarter. She uses vintage, domestic knitting machines which are hand operated so it’s a very manual process.  She is passionate about pushing knitwear forward and pushing people’s perception of knitwear forward. “When you knit something nobody’s seen before, it’s just amazing – and all from a cone of yarn”.

Knitwear designer Rhianna Davenport, aka @studioohaf  . Rhianna is our 23/24 graduate placement in collaboration with Bath Spa, where Rhianna graduated in Knitwear, specialising after studying BA (Hons) Textile Design for Fashion and Interiors. Rhianna aspires to do knit design for interiors and fashion.

Alice-Marie Archer is a Bristol-based multidisciplinary artist who worked in community aquaponic farming for nearly 10 years, before turning to her own creative practice. Alice works with a craft / materials-led approach that asks of her to contemplate our human makings as hybrid worlds for coexistence with nature; to expand our imagining of how we might interact with the species and ecologies around us. Working with hand and machine-knit sheep wool Alice reimagines the forms that are possible for soilless cultivation, germinating and growing seed in her increasingly sculptural knitted artifacts. Paying attention to questions of ecological congruence, Alice sources fibre through the Fibreshed local to her work, and holds space for questions of indigeneity of seed and plant.

Natra Studios is a new label by Apparel and Footwear designer Rebecca Miller. Mixing casual wear and sportswear from material selection to cut lines. All fabrics and trims have been hyper locally sourced in Bristol, UK. Orders are handmade and Natra works on a preorder system to avoid overproduction.

Sophie is an artist and maker who works with natural dyes, print and hand embroidery techniques to connect to nature and  mindfulness whilst maintaining a conscience for sustainability. Drawing is at the heart of her  creative practice using it as an intuitive and contemplative tool to create a sense of movement  and flow. Marks made initially with brush and ink are translated through a variety of textile  processes. Sophie Bowen

Anna Hambridge is a textile designer and maker, specialising in knitted and felted fabrics

Jemima Smale is a costume designer specialising in performance wear for Drag, burlesque and theatre. Jemima is specialist in corsetry, stretch, tailoring, leather, latex, PVC, kink, alterations and much more