Charlotte Wakefield

Woven Form creates one of a kind handwoven textile art pieces for the home. Charlotte's style of weaving is very free, focusing on combining different textures and colours to recreate those which are found within architecture. Each piece she makes is different and when she sits down at the loom does not always know what she is going to weave. Charlotte really enjoys working this way, it is exciting to see what comes out of each warp. It is a very organic way of working and this brings her the most enjoyment.

Charlotte fell in love with weaving at university, in Brighton, she immediately became intrigued with the physical practice and the endless possibilities for experimentation, through fibre, structure and colour. Charlotte loves the freedom of weaving, it makes her feel so relaxed and peaceful and she gets a lot of enjoyment from it.

Charlotte has a home studio space based in Margate, where she hand weaves all of the pieces in the collection. Charlotte works with a variety of different yarns, which she sources from mills and factories using up their deadstock yarns, so yarns that would be a waste product from the textile industry normally. Charlotte is a big fan of merino wool and makes most of her warps out this this as it is such a great base and works really well with most other yarns. The key thing to look for in a yarn is texture so she uses a lot of fluffy mohair, loop mohair, lambswool, alpaca, cotton flag, flecked yarns.