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Touch and Textiles
Jessica Hemmings is the editor of The Textile Reader, which has just published in a second edition. She is also Professor of Craft at HDK-Valand, University of Gothenburg, Sweden and...
Touch and Textiles
Jessica Hemmings is the editor of The Textile Reader, which has just published in a second edition. She is also Professor of Craft at HDK-Valand, University of Gothenburg, Sweden and...
Textiles that Never Die: a Brief Perspective on...
From birth to death, humans directly engage with and create material culture in the form of textiles and clothing. Textile patterns, weave constructions, and loom types combine with yarns and...
Textiles that Never Die: a Brief Perspective on...
From birth to death, humans directly engage with and create material culture in the form of textiles and clothing. Textile patterns, weave constructions, and loom types combine with yarns and...
Byzantine Silk on the Silk Roads: Journeys betw...
Fashion and textiles have been a part of my life from a young age and over the past three decades my research has firmly integrated the present, the future, and...
Byzantine Silk on the Silk Roads: Journeys betw...
Fashion and textiles have been a part of my life from a young age and over the past three decades my research has firmly integrated the present, the future, and...
Bloomsbury Visual Arts
This week Selvedge’s blog has been curated by two of us from Bloomsbury Visual Arts, the leading academic publisher in the fields of fashion and design, with a fast-growing presence in art history and...
Bloomsbury Visual Arts
This week Selvedge’s blog has been curated by two of us from Bloomsbury Visual Arts, the leading academic publisher in the fields of fashion and design, with a fast-growing presence in art history and...
Anything Anyone Ever Wore: The School of Histor...
The collections at The School of Historical Dress form an integral and multi-faceted part of all of the activities undertaken by the School. The collection of textiles and dress ranges...
Anything Anyone Ever Wore: The School of Histor...
The collections at The School of Historical Dress form an integral and multi-faceted part of all of the activities undertaken by the School. The collection of textiles and dress ranges...
Delving into the Textile Design of a Late 19th ...
At first glance this c.1890 dress in our collection may not transport one’s imagination to the ‘Land of the Rising Sun’, especially as this piece was sourced from a third...
Delving into the Textile Design of a Late 19th ...
At first glance this c.1890 dress in our collection may not transport one’s imagination to the ‘Land of the Rising Sun’, especially as this piece was sourced from a third...
