Jeanette Sloan BEM, knitwear designer
26th June 2024 | ALUMNI | NATIONAL HONOURS RECIPIENTS
In 2023 Jeanette Sloan was awarded the British Empire Medal for services to knitwear design and heritage crafts, following a nomination by Heritage Crafts.
Jeanette is one of the most prominent and successful Black knitwear designers in the UK today, and has done a huge amount to promote and celebrate the contribution of Black, Indigenous and People of Colour (BIPOC) to British textile crafts. Among a career of achievements, she devoted her time and expertise, unpaid, to found the ‘BIPOC in Fibre’ project, to celebrate and raise awareness of the contribution of BIPOC to British textile design.