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What they do Cathy Villiers, textile designer: Although not long out of college, Cathy Villiers is already expanding her company to cope with demand for her felted fabrics

Interior designers talk a lot about giving texture to a room and, given that the favoured coverings for walls is still layers of muted paint, the job of adding colour and interest tends to fall to the textiles. In January at Showcase, the annual opportunity for designers to display their wares to the world's trade buyers, several Irish textile designers showed inventive use of colour and materials and Belfast-based Cathy Villiers's work stood out because of its quirkyness and sense of fun.