About
Louisa Muir-Little is a Knitted Textiles Designer. Within her practice she creates playful knitted fabrics exploring colour, technique and materiality. By pushing and combining different knit techniques she aims to create innovative, tactile knitted fabrics.
Louisa’s practice aims to reconnect people to the physical world around them through the medium of textiles, engaging people with their physical surroundings away from the digital world. Through the use of knit and material exploration she creates tactile, knitted pieces which can be applied to our surroundings encouraging a haptic interaction that reconnects us to the material world around us.
Education
Louisa completed her undergraduate studies on the Textiles in Practice course in 2020 at Manchester School of Art where she developed her technical knowledge and passion for Knitted Textiles.
In 2024 Louisa completed her MA in Textiles at the Royal College of Art where she continued her knit exploration, developing her practice towards acoustic textiles for interior architecture.
Experience
Designer | Zara Home | A Coruña (November 2024 - May 2025)
Designing knitted, woven, printed & embroidered textiles for bedroom products.
Research Associate | Royal College of Art | London (October 2024 - November 2024)
Developing samples for the innovative knitted childrenswear brand Petit Pli.
Craftsperson | First Thought Equine | Canterbury (May 2021 - June 2023)
Working within a production team creating high end, innovative products for the equestrian field.
Intern | Envisions Design Lab | Studio Robin Pleun | Studio Samira Boon | Netherlands
Louisa has completed 3 internships at different design studios in the Netherlands.
Awards & Achievements
2025 Winner of the Wandsworth Business Award for innovation - Innovate UK AKT Project
2024 2nd prize in the Bradford Textiles Society Competition AW1 Category
2024 Selected to develop her Graduation Project at the TextielLab in Tilburg, Netherlands
2024 The Textiles Society Student Bursary
2024 Finalist & Highly Commended in The Shima Seiki Student Competition
2023/24 Highly Commended by The Worshipful Company of Framework Knitters
2023/24 COATS Foundation Trust Award Scholarship
For any enquiries or commissions, please email her here.