CARMEL SNOW
Carmel Snow is a global textile artist, 3D knit designer, regenerative material researcher, model, traveler, and revolutionary. Currently leading the 3D Knit Lab at RISD. A founding member of the Knit Lab within MIT’s preexisting Self-Assembly Lab, she specializes in sustainable, innovative knitwear, architecture, and products, using cradle-to-cradle regenerative manufacturing techniques.
Carmel’s art and work fuse craft, technology, and culture-forward, earth-focused practices, creating colorful textiles that honor ancestral traditions while evolving the future of fabrics and system design for a more circular, sustainable world. It’s all part of the broader movement for a better, more integrated whole fabric future.
With experience spanning fashion, footwear, product, automotive, architecture, and art all thru the lens and speciality of textiles. Carmel is a polyglot who has lived and worked in the USA, Germany, Peru, Mexico, Ecuador, Spain, the Netherlands, Poland, China, and Thailand. She holds a RISD BFA in Textiles with a minor in Textile Architecture and Social Justice. She recently completed a knitwear incubator and residency with the Santoni Pioneer Program in Shanghai.
Carmel has collaborated and worked with brands such as: Stoll, Santoni, MIT Media Lab, Rothys, Converse, Ministry of Supply, AFFOA, Gerlan Jeans, Warner Brothers - The Matrix Resurrections, Burning Man, Art Basel Miami + Switzerland, and The Lost Explorer. She holds a patent for Heat Active yarn with MIT, and additional 3D knit finishing techniques patents are pending.
Currently based in Providence, she splits her time between the RISD 3D Knit Lab, New York City, and Mexico City featuring worldwide !
Open to collaborations, technical textile, regenerative material design, and 3D knitting consulting, art and new projects—feel free to reach out!
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