TEXTILE 23
Textile23 is a Sydney-based wool textile studio creating design-led wool textiles for architects, interior designers, and specifiers.
Developed with New Zealand and UK mills, and built for the long life of a considered project.
Angela Sandiforth founded Textile23 after 15 years working in textile sales - across Australia, New Zealand, the United States, and Canada, and directly alongside the architects and interior designers specifying fabrics on live projects every day.
That experience made one thing clear: the people with the deepest understanding of how textiles perform in real spaces were rarely the people designing them. The specifiers, the project architects, the designers managing tight timelines and exacting client briefs, they knew exactly what a fabric needed to do. But the fabrics they were choosing from had mostly been designed far from that reality.
Textile23 was created to close that distance. To put design intelligence where the specification knowledge already lives. To build a studio that works with local designers not as a marketing exercise, but as the actual method.
The business is run independently and kept deliberately lean. Every fabric is developed without compromise. Every client relationship is direct. There is no layer between the person who made the decisions about this material and the person specifying it into a project.
"I wanted to build something I could stand behind completely. Where the material integrity, the design decisions, and the commercial relationships were all things I'd chosen consciously. That's what Textile23 is." Angela Sandiforth