Beth Williams

So grateful to be featured in the 5th edition of @thelissome : ‘Rise Up Rooted, Like Trees’ 💚 Yasmin @opheliathanatos wears: a custom British wool growable yarn and living moss crochet top, and homegrown Crocosmia cord head piece. Creative direction and photography: the wonderful @florencedelolivier 🌱 Article by @valerie.elizabeth.crawford ✨

Custom moss wedding dress for the beautiful Esme 🌱 A truly dreamy commission to be trusted with, how I’d love to create something this special again. Created from a number of different British wool, “cruelty free” and recycled silk, linen, natural dyes with sustainably and responsibly cultivated moss. Entirely compostable with completely natural colours. The perfect dress for the perfect bride!

Very excited that ‘Becoming one with the sea’ has been selected to be a part of The Stitch That Bit Back at Fringe Arts Bath from 22 May to 6 June. This piece is very special to me. It’s the first one using my algae based bio yarn, that I spent over a year perfecting, outside of a fashion context. Needle felted poseable wool sculpture with crocheted wool and alage & clay based bio yarns. The Stitch That Bit Back is a textile exhibition that refuses to sit quietly. Curated by Katarina Orolinová and Chloe Savage, the show brings together fibre works that challenge the long-held idea of textiles as passive, decorative, or confined to the domestic sphere. Here, thread becomes a tool for tension, resistance, and transformation—where softness carries strength and every material choice holds intent. Thank you to @chloesavageartist @katarina_orolinova_art @fringeartsbath

Artist Feature: Beth Williams / @beexbeth Works on display @foxyardstudio Beth Williams is a fashion designer and multi-disciplinary artist who specialises in living, bio and sustainable natural textiles. Their practice centres around their experience of an inaccessible world, and explores the relationship between human and environmental sustainability. Their practice grow alongside them, their work collaborating with them to question the status quo. Their aim is to reconnect their audience to nature by exploring innovative and traditional materials and techniques, with the hopes of shifting ideas around the consumption of fashion and textiles. Works: 1. "We all decay" 40 x 30cm, 2026. Medium: Naturally dyed ribbon, pressed flowers and algae based bioplastic on silk Selling price: £300 2. "Through the studio window, No.4" 21 x 24cm, 2026. Medium: Naturally dyed ribbon, pressed flowers and algae based bioplastic on silk Selling price: £125 3. "Womxn’s Work: the Spinster" 27 x 15 x 15cm, 2025 Medium: Needle felted wool, aluminium wire, silk, indigo stems, natural dyes and glass. Selling price: £1400 Part of the "TEXTILES EXPLORATIONS" Exhibition at Fox Yard Studio, partnered with @artmagnitude . #textilesartist #contemporary #artexhibition #groupshow

Mycelium prototype no. 1 of the year: pink oyster mushrooms grown on an organic cotton bag, using a home grown liquid culture. I have some big plans this year many of which involve mycelium and mushrooms! The more experience I have, the less I feel I know. I have so much respect for people who work with mycelium. There’s so much to learn and lots of obstacles to overcome. #sustainablefashion #biotextiles #mycelium #mushrooms #crochet

Pink oysters (Pleurotus djamor) grown on hand spun organic Egyptian cotton yarn. This is a larger crochet piece that I’m playing with growing mycelium on for reinforcement. The year of mycelium begins! Can’t wait to explore so many different uses for mycelium and its fruiting bodies throughout my practice this year.

Emma in Dollis Hill, January ‘26

There’s enough time for one more fav moment of the year: this commission, ‘Together we are a garden’, for @creativecrawley 🌼 it’s currently up in West Green, so swing by to see it! I’ve had so many great moments this year thanks to Creative Crawley, from our fashion show to workshops to being a resident artist at Crawley’s first maker space! I’ve met and worked with the most amazing people. It was so special to put this piece together to share my hopes for Crawley’s future. Freeform crochet tapestry made with different British wools spun by me and dyed with 11 different natural dyes I grew at home or in our studios garden. When I say my work is compostable I take that seriously! All my dye plants are grown in compost created from old living textiles, natural fibres and biomaterials I’ve used.

I can’t share my fav moments of the year without mentioning the moss wedding dress I had the honour of being commissioned to craft for @esmefayfinch 💚 Crocheted and felted from many types of British Wool, “cruelty free” silk, reclaimed silk and linen. Naturally dyed, natural coloured and hand spun fibres. Inlaid with moss sourced from sustainable, responsible cultivators. A dream to create! If I ever get to make something this special again I’ll be incredibly lucky. . . . . . . Tags: #moss #sustainablefashion #biomaterials #biotextiles #madewithlove

Another special moment from this year: being featured in one of my favourite publications ever, @thelissome for their ‘Rise Up Rooted, Like Trees’ edition. Model: @opheliathanatos Creative direction and photography: @florencedelolivier Article by @valerie.elizabeth.crawford 💚🌱✨

A highlight of the year: Material World at @kewgardens 🌱 Here’s the Trellis dress at the end of its stay after a month and bit of growing and evolving in the Temperate House. So grateful for the opportunity to have two living textile garments as part of the exhibition, alongside work from artists and designers I love and admire, it was truly a career bucket list moment. Can’t wait to see what grows in my practice in the new year.

ELEMENTAL FRAGILITY ✨🍃 New editorial for @mobjournal volume 59, issue 23. @_nizzie_ wearing custom preserved moss and living yarn freeform crochet top 💚🌱 @tekithatraniece wearing maja.anna.designs Jewellery @hannahhumpstonjewellery Team; @lucifneave Movement Director @_imagestudios_ Photographer @lightw0rk_ Casting @calin_andramu MUA @_a.m.visuals Creative Director @achadbandstyling Styling