SELVEDGE JOURNAL
Eka: The Craft of Heat and Dust
Eka's Spring/Summer 2026 collection draws on the Thar Desert's colours and rhythms, combining handwoven Kota, leheriya-inspired pattern and intricate block printing in a thoughtful textile story.
Eka: The Craft of Heat and Dust
Eka's Spring/Summer 2026 collection draws on the Thar Desert's colours and rhythms, combining handwoven Kota, leheriya-inspired pattern and intricate block printing in a thoughtful textile story.
America's Tapestry: Stitching the Story of a Na...
Fireworks and flags are the usual language of the 4th of July. This year, an exhibition in Williamsburg is telling America's founding story in embroidery instead.
America's Tapestry: Stitching the Story of a Na...
Fireworks and flags are the usual language of the 4th of July. This year, an exhibition in Williamsburg is telling America's founding story in embroidery instead.
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.
