Browse & hire professional surface pattern designers for fashion, textiles, interiors & product design.
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Browse & hire professional surface pattern designers for fashion, textiles, interiors & product design.
Gemma is a UK-based (Cornwall) freelance surface pattern, textile, and tile designer operating as Gemma Lofthouse Designs. She works across commissions, collaborations, design team support, and her own GLD Pattern Library - a catalogue of ready-to-purchase exclusive pattern designs.
Gemma is a UK-based (Cornwall) freelance surface pattern, textile, and tile designer operating as Gemma Lofthouse Designs. She works across commissions, collaborations, design team support, and her own GLD Pattern Library - a catalogue of ready-to-purchase exclusive pattern designs. Services span surface pattern, textile design and material sourcing for UK Upholstery (print, embroidery, wovens), tile design, trend and colour research, and creative direction for brands in the homewares and interiors sector.
The portfolio features a commercially versatile design range positioned for the interiors and homewares market - trend-led or brand-led, tailored per client brief. The studio's stated positioning emphasises innovation within a client-responsive framework: delivering designs suited to homewares, stationery, fashion, and tile applications across a range of aesthetics.
Techniques and Tools
Designs for print, embroidery, and wovens. Experienced in textile product design for Worldwide retailers. Specialising in hand-painted print designs, but also experienced in designing woven and embroidery designs, Wallpapers, and Rugs. Work also includes material sourcing for Upholstery Manufacturers from UK, European, and Asian suppliers and mills, with documented experience in upholstery textile design and sourcing. Skills include painting, repeat patterns, colour theory, trend awareness, and client collaboration. Experienced in tile formats - printed, hand-painted, encaustic, ceramic, and porcelain - across small and large formats including border tiles, repeating wallpaper tiles, and floor tiles.
Markets and Clients
Primary focus: homewares, interiors, and textiles. Secondary: apparel, stationery, and tile design. Offers design team support on a temporary or ongoing basis for studios and in-house teams. Non-exclusive designs available for smaller businesses via Etsy; exclusive designs through commissions and the GLD Pattern Library. Open to creative direction and consultation for new brand launches and collection development.
Career Path
Based in Cornwall, UK. Practises as a freelance designer across surface pattern, textile design, tile design, and creative direction. Works with businesses ranging from small brands (non-exclusive licensing via Etsy and commissions) to established companies requiring commissions, and external design team support, from product design to factory specs. Trend research and Creative Direction for the Upholstery sector is a documented service offering.
Pattern Focus
The portfolio features decorative repeat-ready designs positioned for interiors and homewares. Range includes prints for textiles (rugs, cushions, bedding), tile patterns (repeating wallpaper tiles, border tiles, floor tiles), and designs for apparel and stationery. Commissions are brand-led and trend-informed, with a stated commitment to tailoring each design to client needs.
A deep passion for colour, pattern, and texture, I specialise in creating innovative designs for a wide variety of products, from home textiles, wallpaper, tiles, upholstery, and giftware, to stationery and accessories. Over the years, I’ve honed my expertise in designing collections that blend artistic hand-painted prints with market-driven trends, helping brands and manufacturers bring fresh, creative concepts to life.
From an early age I was inspired by my surroundings, particularly nature and botanicals. At 13, I was fortunate to travel to India with my Gramps to meet my Great Gran. Observing and absorbing the vibrancy of the country and culture, the textiles, the work of Artisans, and the architecture, this sparked my passion for travel. It was at this time, colour, pattern and texture became an integral part of my thinking.
Driven by my love of the handmade, I create artwork through paintings, and mixed media for screen printing and digital print techniques, as well as wovens and embroidery. Freelance work includes designing prints and surface patterns for clients large and small.
Gemma is a UK-based (Cornwall) freelance surface pattern, textile, and tile designer operating as Gemma Lofthouse Designs. She works across commissions, collaborations, design team support, and her own GLD Pattern Library - a catalogue of ready-to-purchase exclusive pattern designs.
Style and Aesthetic The portfolio features a commercially versatile design range positioned for the interiors and homewares market - trend-led or brand-led, tailored per client brief.
Pattern Focus The portfolio features decorative repeat-ready designs positioned for interiors and homewares. Range includes prints for textiles (rugs, cushions, bedding), tile patterns (repeating wallpaper tiles, border tiles, floor tiles), and designs for apparel and stationery.
Markets and Clients Primary focus: homewares, interiors, and textiles. Secondary: apparel, stationery, and tile design. Offers design team support on a temporary or ongoing basis for studios and in-house teams.
Techniques and Tools Designs for print, embroidery, and wovens. Experienced in textile product design for Worldwide retailers. Specialising in hand-painted print designs, but also experienced in designing woven and embroidery designs, Wallpapers, and Rugs.
Gemma Lofthouse Designs is associated with Gemma Lofthouse Designs.
Gemma Lofthouse Designs works in adobe photoshop, adobe illustrator, adobe premiere pro, and adobe after effects.
A deep passion for colour, pattern, and texture, I specialise in creating innovative designs for a wide variety of products, from home textiles, wallpaper, tiles, upholstery, and giftware, to stationery and accessories.