Hannah Haworth has been interested in textile making since she was a child, fortunate to grow up in a small indigenous village in the Philippines with a very rich weaving culture. As a teenager she returned to her native Scotland and she became more and more interested in knitting and its ancestral practices there. She studied sculpture at Edinburgh College of Art where she knitted several large-scale sculptures of animals and other natural forms, which she continued to produce and exhibit throughout her 20s when she moved the US. At that time she began working in design in NYC and started really enjoying making (mostly knitted) garments for herself and friends whilst learning more about clothes. 

In 2016, she moved upstate to the Catskill mountains and founded her textile company ‘Handa’ where she currently offers a small range of knitting patterns that she designs in partnership with small farms/yarn producers that work with minimally processed and naturally dyed wool. Handa also offers handmade textiles from all over the world, beginning with the textiles of the village she grew up in.