Weavers Awards 2025
The Weavers Industry & Education Awards were introduced in 2015 on the 500th Anniversary of the founding of the Incorporation, by the then Deacon, Kenneth McDonald. Since that time the Awards have grown in stature and purpose.
Full details of this years awards, application and Payment Link available below.
We will be offering Three award categories :
1. Best new Woven Fabric or Product.
2. Material Innovation Award.
3. Colour in Textile Award (Students only award)
Submissions will be entirely digital with a cost of entry for each category at £12, payable at Checkout. (Link below)
1. Best new woven Fabric or product 2025
Submissions are judged on design, technical ability and understanding of colour.
Work must be available for exhibition at the Weavers Box Opening (15/05/2025)
A graphic will be supplied for use on social media, to promote the design or product.
Prize: £500, and Certificate of Merit.
Other additional prizes may be awarded at judges discretion
2. Material Innovation
Submissions are welcomed from anyone working in material innovation . This includes but is not limited to makers and designers working in: new processes, fibre development, UX design, digital fabrication and media.
Where possible the work should be made available for exhibition at the Weavers Box Opening (15/05/2025)
Prize: £500, and Certificate of Merit.
Other additional prizes may be awarded at judges discretion
3. Colour in Textile Award (Students only award)
Submissions are welcomed from undergraduate and postgraduate students studying textile Design (Any Process).
Entries will be judged on their use of Colour with special attention paid to any designs showing a novel approach to integrating colour with both design and technical Skill.
Where possible the work should be made available for exhibition at the Weavers Box Opening (15/05/2025)
Prize: £500, and Certificate of Merit.
Other additional prizes may be awarded at judges discretion
IMPORTANT
A single piece of work can only be entered into one section even if multiple entry fees are sent. YOU CANNOT WIN MULTIPLE PRIZES WITH THE SAME WORK.
Please do not include your name or any other identifying information (e.g. university, Business, etc) on the images of your entry.
Please ensure you have labelled your main sample and that it is clearly visible. We do not ask for physical samples or technical details to be submitted upon entry but reserve the right to ask for them if the Judges require them.
Email addresses may be given to a third party for the purpose of arranging prizes.
Please use an email address which will not be terminated once you have graduated (for entrants completing their degrees).
Please check your emails regularly. If there are any problems with entry submissions we will do our best to contact you to resolve issues.
We reserve the right not to refund entry fees if we have attempted to contact an entrant on the email given and there has been no response.
The Incorporation of Weavers Industry Awards 2025 CONDITIONS OF ENTRY - PLEASE READ CAREFULLY
1. ENTRIES MUST BE SUBMITTED BY 11TH OF April 2025.
Please Note - Entries will not be accepted after Midnight on 11TH April 2024.
2. CONTACT DETAILS:
EMAIL: glasgow.weavers.clerk@gmail.com
WEBSITE: www.weaversofglasgow.org
Clerk: Susanne McCormick
3. ENTRANTS:
All sections, except “Colour in Textile Award” (students only) are open to independent designers, designers employed in the UK textile industry and students from universities and colleges. All entrants must be resident and/or resident in the UK.
j4. ENTRY FEES: An entry fee is payable for each entry submitted. The entry fee is £12 per entry.
After completing the application form and paying your entry fee please email your images to: glasgow.weavers.clerk@gmail.com.
Please supply the order number generated at check out alongside your image submission.
5. FORM OF SUBMISSION:
A maximum of 3 images may be submitted for each entry, one of which must be a close-up image of the Main Sample and must be labelled as such. The other images should show your research and development process. The file must be submitted as a single PDF. Physical Samples and technical details are not required initially but we reserve the right to ask for them if required by the Judges.
6. COPYRIGHT:
Whilst the copyright of all work submitted to the Design Competition remains with the entrant, The Incorporation of Weavers, Glasgow reserves the right to use the work in publicity material, published both in hard copy and on the internet.
7. JUDGING:
The Judges’ decision shall in all cases be final and binding. The Judges’ reserve the right to satisfy themselves of the authenticity of any work. If an entry is considered to be an infringement of the Conditions of Entry it will be disqualified without refund.
8. RESULTS:
The Winners’ List will be published on the Incorporation of Weavers Glasgow website and we will attempt to notify prize winners by email
The Awards:
Last possible submission - April 11th 2025
Points of clarification and submissions to be transmitted to Susanne McCormick, Clerk :
glasgow.weavers.clerk@gmail.com