The Birmingham City University (BCU) textile students showcase is the culmination of three years of study from their graduating students. The work on display is very diverse and highly individual, from concept to actualisation, representing the future career aspirations and developed aesthetic of the students.

BCU invited our Commercial Marketing Manager, Sarah Draper and Creative Designer, Kay Jones to the School of Fashion and Textiles Graduate Show and asked us to award a prize for Design Innovation.

The team selected Danielle Smith, BA (Hons) Textile Design (Constructed Textiles) work. The project was titled 'Tranquillam Viventem'. Danielle created a collection of serene, tactile and inspiring material concepts, influenced by spiritual wellbeing and Feng Shui.

Image top right: Danielle Smith (left) Kay Jones (right)

Brintons launched the new Craigend Collection designed by long-term collaborators Timorous Beasties at Clerkenwell Design Week 2018. Taking over St Johns Square, the collection debuted in a pop-up installation designed by Studio Shaw Architects.

Brintons is excited to share its latest custom design collection - Brintons x Studio Elke.

Developed in collaboration with Sydney-based jewellery design house, Studio Elke, our latest innovative collection of contract flooring designs will launch July 2018 .

Featuring jewelled tones, mesmeric patterning and trademark Studio Elke textures, the collection is an experimentation of form. It explores the translation of unique jewellery pieces into coveted flooring designs. The collection references adornment and fabrication - both synonymous with the strong visual narrative of the Studio Elke brand.

Woven in Brintons signature 80% wool, 20% nylon yarn blend, designs from the Brintons x Studio Elke collection will be fully customisable to suit the parameters of any flooring project.

Images courtesy of Studio Elke

Brintons will launch the new Craigend Collection designed by long-term collaborators Timorous Beasties at Clerkenwell Design Week 2018. Taking over St Johns Square the collection will be debuted in a pop-up installation designed by Studio Shaw Architects.

Famous for their outstanding diversity of pattern, Scottish design duo Timorous Beasties will present Craigend, their third collection with Brintons. Named after Craigend Place, home of the Glasgow based Timorous Beasties studio and birth place of the designs, the collection name is also inspired by the old Gaelic word ‘Creag’, which means rock.

This commercial collection is inspired by textures and surfaces found naturally underfoot, including sand dunes, stone moss and lichen, all reimagined in the Brintons’ signature 80/20 blend of 80% wool and 20% nylon. With Craigend, Timorous Beasties have called upon their fascination with the often-brutal beauty of the natural world, as well as taking aesthetic inspiration from different crafting materials including paint, ink and fabric.

The installation at Clerkenwell Design Week will showcase a unique selection of woven carpets taken from the new Craigend Collection. Visitors will be taken on a journey through the pop-up installation, where the full-scale patterns will transport the audience into a world inspired by the textures and sights of the natural world.

The world's biggest and most expensive ever cruise ship Royal Caribbean's 'Symphony of the Seas’ weighs 228,000 tonnes, and at 1,188 feet long, it is just 20 metres shy of the length of the Empire State Building in New York.

Brintons worked with STX shipyard and Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines to supply over 35,000 sqm2 of custom Axminster carpet for the new super liner, which enhanced the sophisticated and contemporary interior.