Gemma Harrison is a designer maker with a first class degree in textile design and a background in fashion and interiors.

While working in the textiles industry in London, she was repeatedly seeing vast quantities of perfectly good fabric going to waste. This included production offcuts, surplus samples, deadstock, and 'faulty' fabric. Bags-full of beautiful fabric, destined for landfill.

In response, Gemma began collecting these materials and built Dappled Shade, a brand rooted in reuse, resourcefulness, and craft.

She designs and makes innovative earrings and appliqué artworks entirely from these reclaimed textiles, and entirely by hand. Her process is slow and considered, guided by the material itself.

Alongside this, Gemma works for rehabilitation charity Fine Cell Work, as their Prison Workshop Training Instructor, teaching prisoners sewing machining, production, and hand embroidery.