SELVEDGE JOURNAL
Fields of Thread: Carmen Mardonez’s Chromatic S...
Embroidery has long been bound up with expectations placed on women: hushed labour, domestic usefulness, patient decoration. For Chilean-born textile artist Carmen Mardonez, those expectations became the starting point for...
Fields of Thread: Carmen Mardonez’s Chromatic S...
Embroidery has long been bound up with expectations placed on women: hushed labour, domestic usefulness, patient decoration. For Chilean-born textile artist Carmen Mardonez, those expectations became the starting point for...
The Crown in Cloth: Queen Elizabeth II’s Wardro...
Few twentieth-century wardrobes were as publicly visible, yet as little understood, as that of Queen Elizabeth II. Across seven decades of public life her clothes became part of the visual...
The Crown in Cloth: Queen Elizabeth II’s Wardro...
Few twentieth-century wardrobes were as publicly visible, yet as little understood, as that of Queen Elizabeth II. Across seven decades of public life her clothes became part of the visual...
The Bowes Museum Announces Vivienne Westwood: R...
There are exhibitions that celebrate fashion. And then there are those that mischievously rewrite the rules. At The Bowes Museum this spring, Vivienne Westwood: Rebel – Storyteller – Visionary (28...
The Bowes Museum Announces Vivienne Westwood: R...
There are exhibitions that celebrate fashion. And then there are those that mischievously rewrite the rules. At The Bowes Museum this spring, Vivienne Westwood: Rebel – Storyteller – Visionary (28...
Paint, Pattern, Print: The Joyful World of Coll...
“To pick up a pen or a brush is a moment of optimism,” reflects textile designer Sarah Campbell. It is a sentiment that captures the spirit of Paint! Pattern! Print!:...
Paint, Pattern, Print: The Joyful World of Coll...
“To pick up a pen or a brush is a moment of optimism,” reflects textile designer Sarah Campbell. It is a sentiment that captures the spirit of Paint! Pattern! Print!:...
Weekend Read: Marimekko: The Art of Printmaking...
There are few design houses whose visual language is as instantly recognisable as that of Marimekko. Bright, unapologetically graphic, and full of optimism, its prints have shaped the way many...
Weekend Read: Marimekko: The Art of Printmaking...
There are few design houses whose visual language is as instantly recognisable as that of Marimekko. Bright, unapologetically graphic, and full of optimism, its prints have shaped the way many...
Selvedge Textile Tour of India 2026: Gujarat
Week three of the Selvedge India tour moves through Gujarat with a shift in tempo – from the mercantile assurance of Ahmedabad to the salt-edged horizons of Kutch. The focus...
Selvedge Textile Tour of India 2026: Gujarat
Week three of the Selvedge India tour moves through Gujarat with a shift in tempo – from the mercantile assurance of Ahmedabad to the salt-edged horizons of Kutch. The focus...
