London Craft Week: Fibre & Texture - Form & Shape
Exclusively for London Craft Week 2025, Nancy Nicholson, English textile artist, reveals new woven pieces crafted in British rare breed wool in a pop up exhibition at our Belgravia Flagship Store.
Date: 12th - 17th May 2025
See Below For Location & Opening Times
From farm to fleece and finished piece Fibre & Texture – Form & Shape draws deeply on a history of wool, the beauty and variety of British sheep breeds, and the traditional working and craftsmanship of wool. Showcasing the synergies between the work of Nancy Nicholson, a weaver, artist and rug maker and de Le Cuona’s sustainable natural fabrics, this pop-up exhibition unveils new pieces that express a shared ethos of championing natural fibres.
Nancy Nicholson is based in Devon, England. Her artisanal creations use time-honoured crafts but are truly contemporary and include woven pieces for the wall and the floor.
Born to a Cumbrian shepherdess in a multigenerational family of artists, she stitches the practical, earthborn world to the abstract and aesthetic. A relationship she believes is mirrored in the craft of weaving itself.
Fibre & Texture
Exclusively for London Craft Week Nancy has created a collection of works that explore the wonder of Cumbrian wool. Her practice anchors her to millennia of makers binding her up in the history of the fibre she works with. This is especially true in her work with Cumbrian Wool, exploring the colours and textures that emerge from the flocks that roam the hillsides and farms where she grew up.
“I work with a small cooperative of three hill farms in The South Lakes, one being that of my mother. Between these farmers there are a wide selection of breeds, each producing wool of a differing texture and colour. For the Fibre & Texture collection I have used Rough Fell and Zwartble wool yarns. The Rough Fell is tough, course, and icy white. The Zwartble is springy and strong with a deep rust-tinged, chocolate colour.Where de Le Cuona draws a colour palette from the earth so too do the shades of these natural undyed fleeces.”
Nancy has used a variety of hand weaving techniques to create designs of textural mark making that honours the natural properties of the fibres and champions the craft of hand loom weaving.
Form & Shape
In contrast Form & Shape is a study in shape and colour. These bold geometric, compositions stitch her to the modern world around us. They draw on the ratios between everyday objects, roof beams and walls - car wheels and curbs. They explore how we move through spaces, where we pause, where we rush. They aim to distil these relationships into geometric and textural creations that enhance them.
"de Le Cuona’s fabrics are exquisite examples of how woven fibres can bring the beauty of a landscape and the natural world into our lives. In this collaboration I wanted to explore the interplay of the natural colours of undyed fleeces and a few carefully selected dyed shades to create a conversation with de Le Cuona’s landscape inspired palate. It is a selection of work that delves into the closeness and tactility of a fibre rooted in place and heritage craftsmanship.”
Location: 44 Pimlico Road, Belgravia London, SW1W 8LP
Monday |
10:00 - 18:00 |
Tuesday |
10:00 - 18:00 |
Wednesday |
10:00 - 20:00 |
Thursday |
10:00 - 18:00 |
Friday |
10:00 - 18:00 |
Saturday |
10:00 - 17:00 |