Carmel Snow is a global textile artist + 3D knit designer + regenerative material innovator.
Who creates textiles + art + worlds with colorful, innovative and unique materials focused of 3D knit design + engineering. These textiles are made into knitwear, footwear, accessories, jewelry, soft goods, automotive fabrics, textile architecture utilizing cradle to cradle regenerative manufacturing techniques for research, industry, and culture.
She recently finished a knitwear incubator + textile residency with the Santoni Pioneer Program Shanghai.
As a child she began creating art installations at Burning Man, to weaving plant textiles with communities in the Amazon of Ecuador, to recycled fashion shows in Oakland, leading up to her Textiles BFA at RISD. Later, she started the MIT Knit Lab within the Self Assembly Lab at MIT. During her time at MIT she was also a Textile Entrepeurship Fellow at AFFOA x MIT VMS .
She has worked + collaborated + consulted with such companies as: MIT Self Assembly Lab, Stoll Germany, Santoni Shanghai, Manufactering Solutions Center, Warner Brothers, The Matrix Resurrections, Nike, Converse, Rothys, Ministry of Supply, Gerlan Jeans, Babak Rad Boy of Telfar, Faith Connexion, The Lost Explorer, Studio Babelsberg, Electronic Textile Institute Berlin, My Knit Shanghai , AFFOA, ACG Creativity Global, Solar Decathlon: France, Maxa Camp, Can 7, Fab Lab Berlin, Fab Lab Lima Peru, Burning Man, Garbicz, Coachella, and Wonderfruit,
She has one patent with MIT for Heat Active Yarn she is an inventor on and another knit patent in process of a new 3D knit finishing technique shes been innovating herself.
Shes open for collaborations, jobs, and projects! Please reach out if you feel inspired!