Bold textures and innovative thinking takes knitting to another level.

Claire-Anne O'Brien is a textile designer specialising in you guessed it ......  knitting. Her work plays with technique and scale creating playful and tactile fabrics for interiors. This sculptural approach to textiles brings fabrics to life in three dimensions through form exploration and furniture.
What I am most attracted to is her exaggerated scale combined with bold colour and texture, although her work has a playful quality I find her pieces are classic and timeless.

Clair-Anne O'Brien knitted stools

Modular Stitch is a magnification of the most essential of structural elements in knitting – the loop. Chenille is then knitted in a thick rib and married with a bold colour palette to creating a plush and tactile surface with a myriad of seating configurations.

Clair-Anne O'Brien knitted modular

Clair-Anne O'Brien knitted modular snake

Chair wear Using details and construction techniques traditionally associated with knitwear garments such as ribs, cuffs, button holes, fully fashioning and cut and sew to create jumpers for chairs.

Clair-Anne O'Brien knitted chair

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