Abbie Booth
Textile Design BA Hons
Leeds Arts University
Graduates: 2025
Specialisms: Textiles for Interiors / Textiles / Printmaking
My location: Bradford, United Kingdom
Abbie Booth
First Name: Abbie
Last Name: Booth
University / College: Leeds Arts University
Course / Program: Textile Design BA Hons
Graduates: 2025
Specialisms: Textiles for Interiors / Textiles / Printmaking
My Location: Bradford, United Kingdom
About
I am a surface print and pattern designer, specialising in furnishing design. My prints and patterns are designed for upholstery fabrics and home furnishings. Inspired by geometric shape found within architecture and heritage. My work is often inspired by Bradford's textile heritage taking colour and shape inspiration from mill architecture and industrial machinery. My work uses weaving in a traditional and contemporary sense, creating digital concepts using the traditional use of warp and weft. As well as weaving and dyeing wool felt for acoustic solutions. Working closely with the The Society of Dyers and Colourists to explore their archive for colour inspiration.
My graduate collection Industrious Colour is a print and surface textile design project exploring how Bradford’s textile heritage can influence contemporary practices. Merging traditional slow crafted techniques with mass production processes to create functional art pieces. These pieces are made from wool felt to pay homage to Bradford’s textile past, the panels are designed for acoustic solutions in public spaces. The idea for this came from using private study spaces at university, that are designed to be quiet spaces. However, these spaces are not sound proofed and are painted white. Due to being at an arts university I thought that these spaces would work better if they had colour as well as sound proofing.