Selvedge Stories
ARTIST CARPETS & RUGS: DUNCAN GRANT
Image: 'The Pool of Blood Carpet'. Image courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, LondonBy Deborah NashIn 1913, the painter and art critic Roger Fry founded the Omega Workshops Ltd at 33...
ARTIST CARPETS & RUGS: DUNCAN GRANT
Image: 'The Pool of Blood Carpet'. Image courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, LondonBy Deborah NashIn 1913, the painter and art critic Roger Fry founded the Omega Workshops Ltd at 33...
WEAVE A REAL PEACE
Image: The Gardens Thobe produced by Feryal Abbasi-Ghnaim and completed in 1996, as featured in “Tatreez & Tea: Embroidery and Storytelling in the Palestinian Diaspora”, published in 2018.Mission: Weave A...
WEAVE A REAL PEACE
Image: The Gardens Thobe produced by Feryal Abbasi-Ghnaim and completed in 1996, as featured in “Tatreez & Tea: Embroidery and Storytelling in the Palestinian Diaspora”, published in 2018.Mission: Weave A...
JEWEL TONES OF ELYTRA EMBROIDERY
Images Courtesy: Asif ShaikhBy Brinda GillMaster embroiderer Asif Shaikh finds deep fulfilment in creating embroideries with beetle-wing casings“I believe beetle-wing casings are a gift from nature. The casings are strong,...
JEWEL TONES OF ELYTRA EMBROIDERY
Images Courtesy: Asif ShaikhBy Brinda GillMaster embroiderer Asif Shaikh finds deep fulfilment in creating embroideries with beetle-wing casings“I believe beetle-wing casings are a gift from nature. The casings are strong,...
THE SEWING WORKSHOPS
Image courtesy of The Sewing WorkshopFor 25 years, Linda Lee has been studying how women dress. As founder of The Sewing Workshop pattern company, she has watched the evolution of style...
THE SEWING WORKSHOPS
Image courtesy of The Sewing WorkshopFor 25 years, Linda Lee has been studying how women dress. As founder of The Sewing Workshop pattern company, she has watched the evolution of style...
WARDROBE REVOLUTION WEEKEND: KAREN LUKACS
Image courtesy of Karen LukacsFor the past twenty years, Karen Lukacs' work has been in response to the plethora of discarded textiles, the result of a cultural habit of over-production, over consumption,...
WARDROBE REVOLUTION WEEKEND: KAREN LUKACS
Image courtesy of Karen LukacsFor the past twenty years, Karen Lukacs' work has been in response to the plethora of discarded textiles, the result of a cultural habit of over-production, over consumption,...
REDISCOVERING THE JOY OF TRAVEL: GEORGIA O'KEEFFE
Image: Georgia O'keefe's house in AbiquiuBy Polly Leonard, Founder of Selvedge MagazineOn another trip, I visited the International Folk Art Market in Santa Fe with my son in July. I connected with many old friends and...
REDISCOVERING THE JOY OF TRAVEL: GEORGIA O'KEEFFE
Image: Georgia O'keefe's house in AbiquiuBy Polly Leonard, Founder of Selvedge MagazineOn another trip, I visited the International Folk Art Market in Santa Fe with my son in July. I connected with many old friends and...
