SELVEDGE JOURNAL
Summer with the Selvedge Archives: Keeping Cool
Tutankhamun had one. So did every noblewoman trying to stay cool beneath a wig and corset. The fan began as a royal prerogative, and became the 18th century's sharpest tool for...
Summer with the Selvedge Archives: Keeping Cool
Tutankhamun had one. So did every noblewoman trying to stay cool beneath a wig and corset. The fan began as a royal prerogative, and became the 18th century's sharpest tool for...
Summer with the Selvedge Archives: Here Comes t...
Fragments of mica, polished stone, and mirror glass: ancient sun worshippers built their beliefs into cloth. Traces of those beliefs are still glittering there today.
Summer with the Selvedge Archives: Here Comes t...
Fragments of mica, polished stone, and mirror glass: ancient sun worshippers built their beliefs into cloth. Traces of those beliefs are still glittering there today.
Summer with the Selvedge Archives: Flexible Friend
Five DuPont employees once tried to extort $10 million for the stolen formula. The fibre they fought over had, by then, already changed fashion forever.
Summer with the Selvedge Archives: Flexible Friend
Five DuPont employees once tried to extort $10 million for the stolen formula. The fibre they fought over had, by then, already changed fashion forever.
Summer with the Selvedge Archives: Golden Fleece
Finer than human hair and rarer than gold, sea silk is harvested in secret ritual dives off Sardinia by Chiara Vigo, the last master of a thirty-generation lineage.
Summer with the Selvedge Archives: Golden Fleece
Finer than human hair and rarer than gold, sea silk is harvested in secret ritual dives off Sardinia by Chiara Vigo, the last master of a thirty-generation lineage.
Summer with the Selvedge Archives: Walking on S...
Summer sandals made from ‘the cloth of the sun’ Ptolemy Mann seeks out the fabric company behind the classic espadrille.
Summer with the Selvedge Archives: Walking on S...
Summer sandals made from ‘the cloth of the sun’ Ptolemy Mann seeks out the fabric company behind the classic espadrille.
Summer with the Selvedge Archives: Holiday Souv...
From a Funchal embroidery school to a London exhibition hall, Madeira's needlework earned global renown that today's bordadeiras and designers are determined to preserve.
Summer with the Selvedge Archives: Holiday Souv...
From a Funchal embroidery school to a London exhibition hall, Madeira's needlework earned global renown that today's bordadeiras and designers are determined to preserve.