WARP SUN, WEFT SEED
Image: Typha fibres, from cattail plants, used for the ‘Fluff Stuff’ project. 2022. Aalto University. Courtesy of Dezeen.
“You can find textiles in road construction, in architecture or, for example, in medical applications,” says Maarit Salolainen, Professor of Textile Design at Aalto University, in Finland.
Her kind of ‘textile thinking’ informs the innovative curriculum at Aalto, where understanding the essence of textile techniques, processes, and practices, and grasping the basic alphabet of the textile field— fibres, materials, and structures —is only the beginning of the development of sustainable textile futures...
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