Dorothy Waxman Textile Design Prize

Because of the nature of the textile industry – of working with textiles, the accessibility of feeling the hand of certain materials and pushing them to their limits, testing them and using them in ways they haven’t been before – a textile design competition is a perfect way for designers to move forward with innovation faster than in other product categories. If you’re not already familiar with the Dorothy Waxman Textile Design Prize, we invite you to become familiar here; the design competition, hosted by an organization called Trend Union and sponsored by carpet manufacturer Mohawk Group, beckons the best in textile innovation from students around the globe. The competition recently completely its fifth cycle, and the year 2020 winning submission is a concept that we couldn’t take our eyes off of. As we dug deeper into the conceptual and structural innovations behind the design, we were even more smitten. …