Rebecca Earley & Kate Goldsworthy
Rebecca Earley is a London based textile designer and Reader in Textile Enviornment Design (TED) at Chelsea College of Art and Design, as well as Associate Director of the University of the Arts, Textile Futures Research Centre. Her area of research and creative practice seeks to develop strategies for the designer to employ in seeking to reduce the environmental impact of textile production, consumption and disposal. Her recently completed AHRC funded project, Worn Again; Rethinking Recycled Textiles, investigates the potential for designers to improve the value of textiles through a variety of recycling concepts and processes. Rebecca‘s own label, award wining collections – B Earley – explore an exhaust printing process that she developed in 1998. More recently Rebecca has been working on the Top 100 project, upcycling polyester shirts using heat photogram and digital technologies. This work, spans a ten-year period.
Website: www.beckyearley.com
Kate Goldsworthy is a textile designer, working in the area of new finishing technologies, materials research and development for recycling. Her passion lies with tools for sustainability in the textile world, particularly the recycling and use of polyesters. Currently completing her PhD, her project explores technologies that could potentially change the way we recycle our textile waste, placing the designer at the center of a process of multi-disciplinary design thinking and enterprise. Kate also collaborated with Rebecca Earley on two of the 100 Shirts project.