Leonie Edmead is a Textile Designer whose vibrant woven pieces celebrate the richness of Caribbean identity through colour, craft, and contemporary form.
Rooted in her British-Caribbean heritage, her work explores how stories of place, memory and cultural identity can be reimagined through tactile design.
Her work spans fashion, interior and art contexts and she has been recognised and awarded by the Worshipful Company of Weavers Scholarship Award (2020), The Clothworker’s Award (2024) and Heritage Craft’s Emerging Weaver of the Year Award (2025).
Central to her practice is a focus on colour, pattern and materiality, particularly her use of West Indian Sea Island cotton, one of the rarest cottons in the world which is historically rooted in the Caribbean.
Experimenting with these combinations, she aims to create a space to appreciate lesser-known cultures by transforming them into beautiful textiles.
