School staff
Dr Faith Kane is a lecturer in Textiles and leader of the Textiles Research Group at The School of the Arts. After gaining her PhD, Designing Nonwovens: Industrial and Craft Perspectives, she taught constructed textiles at De Montfort University in Leicester, leaving in 2008 to take up her current position at Loughborough. Her current interests revolve around sustainable materials design and in particular the role and value of craft knowledge within this area. She is involved in her own practice-led research as well as the development of collaborative research projects and events. Current projects include ‘Laser Enhanced Biotechnology for Textile Design’ and ‘Textile Thinking for Sustainable Materials’.
Faith is also an editor of DUCK Journal for Research in Textiles and Textile Design, which provides an opportunity to engage in debate around textiles and textile design encompassing a range of approaches, disciplines and outcomes.
She contributes to studio teaching on BA Textile Design and Innovation and to Critical and Historical Studies via supervision of student dissertation projects.
Teaching
SAA613 Textiles Process and Exploration
SAA614 Textiles Exploration and Application
Research
Current research funding and projects include:
- AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award with the Society of Dyers and Colourists (SDC): ‘Laser Techniques for Textile Design and Colouration’ (PhD student: Kerri Wallace)
- AHRC ‘Laser Enhanced Biotechnology for Textile Design’: a collaborative project with Professor Jinsong Shen at De Montfort University in Leicester
- EPSRC (LU Bridging the Gaps Scheme) ‘Textile Thinking for Sustainable Materials’: a networking event bringing together textile designers, material scientists and product designs to explore the application of textile thinking to developments in sustainable materials.
- DUCK Journal for research in Textiles and Textile Design http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/sota/research/Duck_NEW_2010/index.htm
Recent projects and exhibitions:
TRIP (Textiles Research in Process) http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/sota/trip/trip_homepage.html
‘Local Narrative’ in Material Actions http://www.sustainable-fashion.com/2011/01/material-actions-exhibition-at-ccanw-exeter/)
Textile thinking for sustainable materials http://ttsm.lboro.ac.uk/
Research Student Supervision
Faith currently supervises:
Kerri Wallace who is undertaking an AHRC funded collaborativeen Doctoral Award with the SDC titled ‘laser techniques for textile design and colouration’. The project is jointly supervised with Professor John Tyrer in Wolfson School of Manufacturing Engineering, Dr George Weaver in Chemistry and Andrew Filarowski at the SDC.
Featured Publications
Kane, F.E., 2009 ''Nonwovens in Smart Clothes & Wearable Technologies'', in Smart Clothes & Wearable Technologies, J.McCann and D.Bryson, Woodhead, Cambridge, April 2009, 156-180, ISBN 978-1-84569-357-2.
SFX
Kane, F.E., 2010 ''Nonwoven textiles for residential and commercial interiors in Applications for nonwovens in technical textiles'', in ., R A Chapman, Woodhead Publishing, Cambridge, 2010, 136-158, ISBN978-1-84569-437-1.
Kane FE., 2011 Essamplaire_1 in Ambience 11 Museum of Textile History Boras Sweden, 28 Nov 2011 - 30 Nov 2011 ISBN 978-91-975576-7-2
Kane FE., 2011 Local Narrative in Material Actions, Centre for Contemporary Art and the Natural World, Exeter, 27 Nov 2010 - 27 Feb 2011 ISBN 978-0-9557491-5-5
