SELVEDGE JOURNAL
SADDLE STITCH
Image: Detail of Community. James Fox. Courtesy of the artist. James Fox is a Lancashire-based textile artist working in machine embroidery and reverse appliqué. His exhibition, Freedom of Movement, is at The...
SADDLE STITCH
Image: Detail of Community. James Fox. Courtesy of the artist. James Fox is a Lancashire-based textile artist working in machine embroidery and reverse appliqué. His exhibition, Freedom of Movement, is at The...
MASTER CRAFT
Image: Hitoshi Maida yuzen-dyeing. Courtesy of The Japan Foundation. In Japan, yuzen-dyeing became the fashionable at the end of the 17th century. It is a paste resist-dyeing technique, used to create large,...
MASTER CRAFT
Image: Hitoshi Maida yuzen-dyeing. Courtesy of The Japan Foundation. In Japan, yuzen-dyeing became the fashionable at the end of the 17th century. It is a paste resist-dyeing technique, used to create large,...
KEEPING TIME
Image: Colourful bobbins. Courtesy of Whitchurch Silk Mill. Whitchurch Silk Mill is the oldest silk mill in the UK, built in 1813 on land owned by the Dean and Chapter...
KEEPING TIME
Image: Colourful bobbins. Courtesy of Whitchurch Silk Mill. Whitchurch Silk Mill is the oldest silk mill in the UK, built in 1813 on land owned by the Dean and Chapter...
DANDELION DREAMS
Image: Ikat scarf. Rezia Wahid. Winner of Ella McLeod Production Award. Courtesy of Rezia Wahid. If, with a single breath, you blow all the seeds off a dandelion, then...
DANDELION DREAMS
Image: Ikat scarf. Rezia Wahid. Winner of Ella McLeod Production Award. Courtesy of Rezia Wahid. If, with a single breath, you blow all the seeds off a dandelion, then...
NODES AND MODES
Isn’t it perpetually astonishing that so humble and unattractive a creature can produce the most sumptuous and tactile of fabrics? Silk can absorb up to thirty times its weight in...
NODES AND MODES
Isn’t it perpetually astonishing that so humble and unattractive a creature can produce the most sumptuous and tactile of fabrics? Silk can absorb up to thirty times its weight in...
TAKING SILK
Image: Women checking silk, Song, China. Dr. Angela Sheng is a textile scholar with a PhD in Oriental Studies— with fields in Chinese art history, the history of Chinese science...
TAKING SILK
Image: Women checking silk, Song, China. Dr. Angela Sheng is a textile scholar with a PhD in Oriental Studies— with fields in Chinese art history, the history of Chinese science...