Laura Nunn
Textiles in Practice
Manchester School of Art MMU
Specialisms: Textiles - Weave / Textile Innovation/Textile Art / Textiles - Concept
Location: Manchester, United Kingdom
Laura Nunn
First Name: Laura
Last Name: Nunn
Specialisms: Textiles - Weave / Textile Innovation/Textile Art / Textiles - Concept
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My Location: Manchester, United Kingdom
University / College: Manchester School of Art MMU
Course / Program Title: Textiles in Practice
About
I am a final year woven textiles design student from Manchester Metropolitan University. With strong digital capabilities, a love of the details and considered colour palettes - I am a textile designer with all the necessary requirements to craft technical and visually stimulating woven textiles. I strive to craft warps that disrupt the stripes and grids associated with traditional weaving and showcase natural fibres' ability to be fresh and contemporary if used innovatively. I particularly thrive when using unusual materials and pushing the limits of alternative yarns to create fabrics that are outside of the box. I employ lateral thinking when approaching a brief, and consider how I can craft something beautiful, well-researched and sustainable while ensuring that I am meeting the brief's parameters. I want to honour an ancient heritage craft while harnessing its potential for contemporary applications; I am fiercely passionate about creating slow, thoughtful and functional textiles, while embracing new technologies such as 3D Stratasys printing to exhibit how a craft with infinite possibilities will always be relevant, and should be honoured as a result.
Steel city: woven wire
'Steel City' aims to explore the architectural, structured nature of woven textiles that feature wire in the weft and warp, in conjunction with the more organic, shapely properties of overspun wool. The project focuses heavily on the delicate and rusted hues found in and around Sheffield's steel industry architecture, through thorough photography and colour studies. With a strong focus on CMF properties, 'Steel City' adeptly combines an adventurous weave practice with strong material knowledge.
Competitions
TEX+ 2026
Living metals: Patinating copper textiles
'Living Metals' began as an ode to well-loved Manchester DIY music venues. The project aims to honour the beauty in exposed plaster, degraded paintwork and gilded elements of Manchester acoustic spaces, considering how metals could be used to create interior wall dividers that rust deliberately with time - living and ageing along with a venue. Using a fine, bare copper wire warp and experimentation with natural colours that arise from the oxidation process, the project aimed to harness this patina to create subtle green and turquoise hues in the woven samples.