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🏆 New Designers – Celebrating our Spotlight Award Winners 🏆

A huge congratulations to our School of Design and Creative Awards students who won awards at New Designers – we’re thrilled to say that Loughborough University picked up more awards than any other institution! 👏

Spotlight Awards 🌟

The Based Upon Award for Alchemy – sponsored by @basedupon
Winner: Amelia Dittmann (Textile Design BA) - Shaped by the Sea
Judges’ comments: “We were drawn to how Amelia surrendered control in the creative process and how her observations and research resonated in the finely crafted pieces.”

The Colour in Design Award – sponsored by @colourindesignaward
Winner: Florence Barnaby (Textile Design BA) - Bio Bling
Awarded for outstanding use of colour in a design project – where colour is fundamental to the work, its impact and success.

Find out more details about our students’ projects via the SDCA Degree Show website via the link in our bio. by @lboro_textiles

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MASSIVE well done to @lolabatetextiles who won the Kvadrat Prize at TEX+ this year! We could not be more proud of Lola and know she will achieve great things in her career 🧶🧵🌈🩷 by @lboro_textiles

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SPOTLIGHT ON TEX+ FINALISTS
Loughborough University graduate

Introducing:

Lola Bate - @lolabatetextiles

GET TICKETS FOR THE SHOWCASE NOW👏

The Triangle Building Chelsea College of Art & Design, London
Wednesday 15 July-Thursday 16 July

#texplus #textilegraduate #emergingdesigner by @lboro_textiles

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HUGE congrats to Lola Bate, @lolabatetextiles who has been selected as a finalist for this year’s TEX+ showcase, which highlights top UK Textile talent! Our fingers are crossed for you Lola 🤞🏻🌈 by @lboro_textiles

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Incredibly proud of our Class of 2026 BA (Hons) Textile Design students, who showed up and showed out at New Designers- winning the following accolades:

⭐️Amelia Dittmann: IVO shortlist, Based Upon award for Alchemy winner (major), Green Grads selection

⭐️Freya Homes: Amtico shortlist, Ultrafabrics shortlist, Materials and Design Exchange winner (major), Design for Planet shortlist, Green Grads selection

⭐️Florrie Barnby: SDC shortlist, Colour in Design award winner (major)

⭐️Gracie Ryan: Sanderson shortlist, Hand & Lock shortlist

⭐️Grace Hitchcock: Ashley Wilde shortlist, Romo shortlist

⭐️Verity Carryer: John Lewis shortlist, Ashley Wilde shortlist, IVO shortlist, Green Grads selection

⭐️Manon Phillips: SAGE automotive fabrics shortlist, Wilcom shortlist

⭐️Tess Pritchard: Ashley Wilde shortlist, recruited for ND Selects in 2027

⭐️Katie Fitzhenry: Materials and Design Exchange shortlist

All the students worked so incredibly hard on their collections, and all were recognised for their expertise, passion, knowledge and skill. It was a pleasure to be there with them and see the world be wowed by their talent! by @lboro_textiles

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Massive congrats to Freya Holmes, @freyaholmestextiles on winning the Materials and Design Exchange award, Amtico shortlist, Ultrafabrics shortlist, Design for Planet shortlist, and Green Grads selection! Freya was also interviewed by ReFAB Studio🍁 by @lboro_textiles

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Massive congrats to Florrie Barnby, @textilesbyflorence who won the Colour in Design award and was also shortlisted by the Society of Dyers & Colourists! #biobling by @lboro_textiles

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Massive congrats to Amelia Dittmann @amelia_textiledesign who won the Based Upon Award for Alchemy at New Designers, and was also selected for the IVO shortlist, and Green Grads. by @lboro_textiles

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We’re set up and ready at New Designers- stand 65 by the big clock! Come find us there 🌈🙌🏻 @lboroca @lborodesign @lborotextiles26 by @lboro_textiles

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We wrapped up the academic year with an unforgettable finale as our second‑year Textile Design and Fashion Design & Technology students unveiled their final outcomes for their Speculative Futures for Fashion & Textiles module.

Across the final six‑week block, ten mixed teams imagined futures ranging from eco‑communes drifting on the Great Pacific Garbage Patch to worlds where body modification, weight‑loss drugs, and social media have completely inverted gender norms.

Each team translated their scenario into two striking looks, turning DigiLab East into a runway of possibility, critique, and fearless creativity.

A powerful close to the year and a glimpse of the designers shaping tomorrow.

📸Photography by Final year Fine Art student @camleighton.studio

#SpeculativeFutures #TextileDesign #FashionDesign #FashionShow #SustainableFutures by @lboro_textiles

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The Degree Show up close 👀⁠
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So many beautiful details in the work produced by the talented SDCA students this year! If you missed some of these, don't worry, you can still view the FULL degree show online. ⁠
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Follow the link in our bio! 🔗⁠
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#luarts #lborouni #fineart #exhibition #textiles by @lboro_textiles

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🏆 SDCA Degree Show 2026 - Textile Design BA Award Winners 🏆

Our Textile Design BA inspires and trains the next generation of multi-disciplinary textiles practitioners. Our superb students showed off their talents through their final year projects on display at the Degree Show.

Our Degree Show awards, supported by industry partners, recognise outstanding final year Textile Design BA students and their projects for a range of criteria including innovation in materials and sustainable design principles.

A huge congratulations to all of our Textile Design BA award winners:

💜 Innovation Award - Hannah Bennison
💜 Commercial Application Award - Alice Taylor
💜 Sustainable Approach Award - Neve Mills

Thank you to @awhainsworth @priestmangoode @anstey_wallpaper_company for supporting in the judging and shortlisting process for the above awards.

💜 Diverse Voices in Textiles Winners - Joanna Cherian, Rosa Ironmonger and Becca Ogden
💜 Diverse Voices in Textiles Highly Commended - Immy Fraser-Williams and Grace Hitchcock
💜 Rosy Chetwyn Positive Impact Award - Lola Bate
💜 Edward Sharp Prize - Amelia Dittmann
💜 Potclays Highly Commended – Sian Brewin @potclays

The programme also hosted their own awards, recognising students’ achievements across a variety of fun categories - well done to everyone involved!

📸 Photography by Ibby ONeill @ibby_oneill by @lboro_textiles

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