daisy watt
i do design and development for fabric, software, and education. i've spent fifteen years weaving, sometimes doing freelance textile design, a few years tech-ing and teaching at RMIT and over the last five years now also writing code across the stack for large-scale systems. i used to run a creative community space, and i sometimes help out at refugees code melbourne and creative technology melb. i've been tinkering on this loom to bring it back to life. send me an email :)
selected press
- ABC, national podcast, 13 june 2025 Weekend Evenings: How this once doomed jacquard loom was saved from the scrapheap
- national communications museum, september 2026 drop-in workshop | woven code
- the Guardian, 25 may 2025 a new room for a doomed loom and the battle to save Australia's slowly dying crafts
- Designing through Planetary Breakdown, Dr Jesse Adams Stein, july 2025 Tracing one machine's 20-year journey from strategic government investment to small-scale craft volunteerism
- Garland magazine, 2025 artisanal coding
- Coder Academy, september 2021 diversity in tech scholarship
- The Design Files, october 2020 handcrafted design awards
- OnProcess Podcast, september 2020 an episode with Daisy Watt
- Craft Victoria, 2020 Holding Light, an exhibition, a floor talk, and an artist in residence
- Tin Villanueva, 2019 Daisy Watt: Melbourne Weaver and Designer
- Frankie magazine, 2018 awards, craft winner daisy watt
- Sydney Morning Herald, 23 february 2017 Brunswick studio walk: behind the scenes of Melbourne's creative industries