Selvedge Stories
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...
THE MILL AND THE FLOSS
Image: Gainsborough Silk Mill for Giles Deacon A/W 16/17 Sudbury in Suffolk, England, had been a centre of silk weaving since the arrival of Huguenot weavers in the 19th Century,...
THE MILL AND THE FLOSS
Image: Gainsborough Silk Mill for Giles Deacon A/W 16/17 Sudbury in Suffolk, England, had been a centre of silk weaving since the arrival of Huguenot weavers in the 19th Century,...
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...
#winterwarmer
Sarah Burns believes in using natural processes that are kind to the environment, and that reflect the beauty of nature. Her business, Sarah Burns Patterns, advocates only having things in...
#winterwarmer
Sarah Burns believes in using natural processes that are kind to the environment, and that reflect the beauty of nature. Her business, Sarah Burns Patterns, advocates only having things in...
SMALL IS THE NEW BIG
Image: Iseabal Hendry’s workshop. Courtesy of Iseabal Hendry. Born and raised in the Highlands of Scotland, Iseabal Hendry is inspired by the traditional craft skills that surrounded her in childhood;...
SMALL IS THE NEW BIG
Image: Iseabal Hendry’s workshop. Courtesy of Iseabal Hendry. Born and raised in the Highlands of Scotland, Iseabal Hendry is inspired by the traditional craft skills that surrounded her in childhood;...
