Beatrice Larkin
Beatrice Larkin is a textile designer based locally in Margate, Kent specialising in woven textiles, accessories and interior products. Her fabrics are recognisable for their softened geometric patterns in a pared down colour palette, all woven in the UK.
Bea’s hand drawn sketches run through all her designs. The fabrics (merino wool & recycled cotton) are woven in small runs in Lancashire and then washed and finished in the Yorkshire Dales. The Italian spun merino wool is more commonly used for high end knitwear and the fine, soft fibres of the merino sheep give a beautifully soft and luxurious handle, perfect for throws and accessories.
Bea was fortunate to grow up surrounded by beautiful fabrics with her father (Gordon Larkin) running an established interior design shop a few minutes from Craeft Canterbury and her mother, an embroiderer and quilter.
She studied BA Textile Design specialising in weave at Chelsea College of Art, followed by a masters at the Royal College of Art.
Bea’s RCA final collection gained interest from buyers such as Heal’s and so after graduating she began the search for a British mill that could produce her designs to scale. Customers now include Heal’s, Daylesford Organic, Made, Studio Ashby, Conran and Partners, The Robin and Lucienne Day Foundation, The Tate Modern and Piglet in Bed.
