Gareth Brown is the founder and designer of Rooey Knots.  She always had a pension for dressing up and once she found out around age 7 that designing clothes was a job, she felt sure that was the job for her.  From that point on Gareth was always sketching and learned to sew from her mother at a young age, soon transitioning into projects of her own before attending Syracuse University and receiving a BFA in Fashion Design. She had always loved sewing and designing and took a special interest in sustainable design.

Directly after graduating Gareth moved to Shanghai China, joining her brother who was living there at the time.  She taught English and explored the incredible fabric and fashion industry in the city. The idea to use vintage ties as accessories came to her in college but she really explored and transformed her designs while living in Shanghai.  She began making beautiful headbands out of vintage ties, mixing prints and patterns, and repurposing a traditional menswear item as a women's accessory. In the summer of 2014, she decided to move home and give her budding accessory design business a real chance. At the suggestion of Lisa, she signed up for the Featherstone and Chilmark Flea Markets on Martha's Vineyard and made preparations to move back to the states.  While preparing to move home she had another idea for a small line of clothing to sell at the markets, a line of black and white linen shirts and dresses based on the classic American button-down.  

After a successful first summer on the vineyard, Gareth settled in her home state of New Jersey frequently selling at markets in NYC and eventually moving into Brooklyn.  She opened a permanent space at the Brooklyn Artists & Fleas in 2016 and soon expanded to their Chelsea market location but would always leave to spend summers on MV selling at the markets there.  The accessories had taken off and her focus was primarily on them until 2018 when she made a trip back to Shanghai to visit her brother.  She had a resurgence of interest in clothes and had honed her eye for color, prints, and patterns from the years of making colorful accessories from silk ties.  From that point on clothes and accessories were two branches of the budding business expanding in creativity.