Dr Annie Shaw  

Senior Lecturer - Fashion, Textiles, Textile Design for Fashion

Telephone : 0161 247 3542
Email : a.shaw@mmu.ac.uk

Office : Cavendish Building / Room 118

Education:
Trent Polytechnic, Nottingham:
• BA(Hons) Fashion 1982
• MA Knitwear and Knitted Fabric Design 1986

Joined MMU in 1991, following a career based in London and the Far-East, designing & developing men’s casual and knitwear brands, which were manufactured globally.

Teaching:
Responsibilities have included working with both BA (Hons) Fashion and Fashion Design with Technology programmes.
Currently responsible for delivering specialist input in the subject area of ‘knit’ to students from all programmes in Fashion/Textiles area.
Specialist subjects/interests:
Knit
Menswear
Life drawing for fashion

I place high value on the importance of drawing in the design process and I am keen to encourage students to embrace creative and challenging approaches to their work and to instil confidence and independence in an individual’s vision.

Research:
Interests are focussed around knitwear and new technology. Recent recearch findings are recorded in my PhD thesis: 'CRAFTING THE TECHNOLOGICAL: GANSEYS AND WHOLEGARMENT KNITTING'(2009). The research examines hand and machine seamless knitting and explores through design and craft practice, new ideas for the mass-customistaion of knitted garments. The intention is to add value and promote emotional connection between designer and wearer. The research also focuses on the seamless knitted garments (ganseys) produced by the fishing communities of the North-Eastern Seaboard of Britain.

New research interests relate to: The mending and repair of knitting, knitting and left-handedness.