Huddersfield rug designer Adriana Tavares is about to make her mark on the national stage.

She has been chosen as a featured artist at the renowned London Design Festival, which runs until the end of the month

After showing at the Great Northern Contemporary Craft Fair and the New Designers exhibition last year, young entrepreneur Adriana was approached by global fashion company Anthropologie, to display her Limitless Creativity exhibition

Adriana specialises in the creation of ‘bespoke hand-tufted rugs that embrace shape, colour and innovation. ’ On show in London are 12 ‘Toppiece’ footstools and rugs specially designed for the festival andwork created on community projects.

Rug designer Adriana Tavares from Huddersfield

As well as creating new pieces of work for the exhibition, she has also been running her enterprise and rug-making business, Adriana Tavares Rugs, based at Huddersfield University’s Duke of York Young Entrepreneur Centre in Firth Street, which has grown from strength to strength.

Adriana’s passion is the interaction between craft and education. She has been working with the Child Art Collection located at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, West Bretton. She runs workshops and collaborations with local community projects.

She said: “I want to change people’s perception of what a rug looks like. It’s not just a rug on a floor, it’s like a drawing.”