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Carrie Waymark
Carrie Waymark creates handwoven textiles, fabric lengths, and accessories using British wool and natural fibres. Her weaving journey began in London, where she taught herself on a small frame loom, before a move to Scotland over fifteen years ago gave her the opportunity to fully immerse herself in the craft. After completing a short course in weaving on a four-shaft loom using reclaimed wool, Carrie continued to refine her skills and now works on a traditional eight-shaft wooden loom.
For Carrie, weaving is about far more than making beautiful objects. Sustainability is central to her practice, and she works exclusively with dead stock wool and vintage yarns. Carrie values the meditative nature of handweaving, and enjoys how the process encourages focus, patience, and requires a slow pace.
Working under the name Carrie’s Handweaving, Carrie is based at the WASPS studios within the Perth Creative Exchange.
Aesthetic
Carrie creates cosy, colourful handwoven textiles inspired by the tradition of British cottage weaving and the domestic history of cloth-making. Using traditional weave patterns and rich colour combinations, she crafts tactile, durable fabrics and accessories from sustainable 100% British yarns.
Her work has a timeless heritage feel, sustainable, useful, and deeply connected to the warmth and beauty of the natural world.
Practice
Handweaving on her traditional eight shaft wooden loom, Carrie combines traditional threading patterns with playful colour experimentation, resulting in one off pieces.
Every weave begins with a carefully chosen palette before the yarn is measured and warped by hand, thread by thread, onto the loom, a slow and meticulous process long before weaving itself begins. Once the warp is prepared, more yarn is wound onto bobbins to build the fabric row by row. Guided by a low-waste approach, Carrie designs her products around the finished cloth and finds ways to use even the smallest remnants. The true nature of each textile is only revealed once it has been cut from the loom, washed, and finished, making every piece an exploration in patience, craftsmanship, and the endless possibilities of weaving.
Location & Links
Perth Creative Exchange
