Royal College of Art MA Textile show
On 29 June I visited the RCA textile show featuring the MA knit and weave students. Some a bit wilder and wackier than New Designers:
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Joe Whitbread, lovely complex pattern
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traditional garment, contemporary fabric
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Great varied weaves, Christopher McEvoy Barton
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Plastic mesh, jewelled and sequinned yarn. Eden Lysette Blaber
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Glorious knit: Jacob Patterson
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