Mae Thompson is a UK-based textile designer and graduate of Textile Design from Arts University Bournemouth (AUB). Her practice centres on machine embroidery, hand embellishment, printing, and dyeing, with a mixed-media approach that contrasts hard and soft materials.
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Mae Thompson is a UK-based textile designer and graduate of Textile Design from Arts University Bournemouth (AUB). Her practice centres on machine embroidery, hand embellishment, printing, and dyeing, with a mixed-media approach that contrasts hard and soft materials. She also creates jewellery under the name Mae Joan Jewellery, drawing on similar techniques - laser cutting, digital design, and hand beading.
Thompson's textile work is technique-led and texture-focused. She explores contrast between hard and soft materials, and between machine and hand processes. Selected Instagram pattern images suggest surface textile work with varied embellishment and printing. Colour and finish are central to the practice. Her approach is tactile and material-first rather than digitally flat.
Machine embroidery, hand embellishment, screen and digital printing, dyeing processes. For jewellery: laser cutting, Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, hand beading. Mixed-media across all practice areas.
Fashion textiles, womenswear. Interest in styling for film and TV (wardrobe, set design). During her degree she collaborated on external projects - decorative stitching, distressing, and accessory styling for photoshoots. Mae Joan Jewellery stocked in an AUB-run shop.
Graduate of Textile Design, Arts University Bournemouth. Developed Mae Joan Jewellery during her studies as a parallel practice combining textile skills with jewellery-making. Has collaborated on styling and accessory projects within and beyond university.
Surface textile patterns produced through embroidery, printing, and dyeing. The portfolio features embellished and printed textile samples with tactile character. Her pattern work is embedded in a broader material and finishing practice. Selected placement images indicate garment application.
Mae Thompson is a UK-based textile designer and graduate of Textile Design from Arts University Bournemouth (AUB). Her practice centres on machine embroidery, hand embellishment, printing, and dyeing, with a mixed-media approach that contrasts hard and soft materials.
Style and Aesthetic Thompson's textile work is technique-led and texture-focused. She explores contrast between hard and soft materials, and between machine and hand processes. Selected Instagram pattern images suggest surface textile work with varied embellishment and printing.
Pattern Focus Surface textile patterns produced through embroidery, printing, and dyeing. The portfolio features embellished and printed textile samples with tactile character. Her pattern work is embedded in a broader material and finishing practice. Selected placement images indicate garment application.
Markets and Clients Fashion textiles, womenswear. Interest in styling for film and TV (wardrobe, set design). During her degree she collaborated on external projects - decorative stitching, distressing, and accessory styling for photoshoots. Mae Joan Jewellery stocked in an AUB-run shop.
Techniques and Tools Machine embroidery, hand embellishment, screen and digital printing, dyeing processes. For jewellery: laser cutting, Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, hand beading. Mixed-media across all practice areas.
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Career Path Graduate of Textile Design, Arts University Bournemouth. Developed Mae Joan Jewellery during her studies as a parallel practice combining textile skills with jewellery-making. Has collaborated on styling and accessory projects within and beyond university.
Mae Thompson is a Textile Designer. Browse their portfolio and contact them for projects.