The Stitch Archive is a collaborative project between us, two textile designers, with a passion for celebrating and amplifying contemporary, constructed and decorative textiles.
“At the heart of what we provide here at The Stitch Archive, is a passion to provide clear visibility to our visitors on the scope of what is possible within this exciting industry, what a career in the high-end textiles industry can be and the skills and mindset that is required to improve employability. All revenue generated is put back into the archive, enabling us to grow the collection and affordable services we can provide to our visitors.
Alongside this, The Stitch Archive is about community and collaboration, using textiles as a vehicle to bring people together online and face to face, both for wellness and to begin growing a professional network.
We feel what we do here will make a lasting change in the fashion and textiles industry, providing much needed insights to the very highest levels of design, in an accessible way to young designers and the textiles community, shaping the industry for generations to come.”
Annalisa Dunn
Annalisa Dunn is a senior knitwear designer with many years working in the luxury market. She has a variety of experience, from running her own label Cooperative Designs in the 2000s, to working for international brands, heritage brands, as well as supporting and collaborating with many independent London labels.
Lisa Salama
Lisa Salama is an Embroidery specialist, working with multiple luxury fashion brands across the broad spectrum of hand, machine and computerised embroidery design. Alongside her design work, she is a BA and MA Lecturer at various universities, believing passionately in the value of passing on relevant industry knowledge to students during their university education, and uni-leavers freshly entering the creative industries.