Selvedge Stories
Dirty Looks: Fashion Finds Beauty in the Mud at...
At first glance, dirt seems like fashion’s enemy—something brushed away before stepping into the studio. Yet Dirty Looks: Desire and Decay in Fashion, open now at the Barbican Art Gallery until...
Dirty Looks: Fashion Finds Beauty in the Mud at...
At first glance, dirt seems like fashion’s enemy—something brushed away before stepping into the studio. Yet Dirty Looks: Desire and Decay in Fashion, open now at the Barbican Art Gallery until...
Karin Hellman at EMMA: A Force in Finnish Moder...
Karin Hellman worked for more than six decades and was regarded by her peers as a bold, original voice in Finnish art, yet she remains little known outside specialist circles....
Karin Hellman at EMMA: A Force in Finnish Moder...
Karin Hellman worked for more than six decades and was regarded by her peers as a bold, original voice in Finnish art, yet she remains little known outside specialist circles....
A Warm Embrace from Iceland: The Tale of the Lo...
Icelandic writer Árni Árnason once said the lopapeysa “resembles the country’s rugged nature and reminds us of the history of farming and fishing, when it provided its wearer with a...
A Warm Embrace from Iceland: The Tale of the Lo...
Icelandic writer Árni Árnason once said the lopapeysa “resembles the country’s rugged nature and reminds us of the history of farming and fishing, when it provided its wearer with a...
Print, Repeat, Archive: Sven Fristedt’s Work Ex...
Sven Fristedt’s patterns have the rare ability to feel both deeply nostalgic and startlingly modern. They carry perhaps a sense of lived experience through memories of curtains in a childhood...
Print, Repeat, Archive: Sven Fristedt’s Work Ex...
Sven Fristedt’s patterns have the rare ability to feel both deeply nostalgic and startlingly modern. They carry perhaps a sense of lived experience through memories of curtains in a childhood...
Mountain Looms and Tidal Threads: Ós Textile Re...
In Blönduós, on Iceland’s northwestern coast, textiles seem to belong to the landscape as much as to the studio. The Icelandic Textile Center sits beside the glacial river Blanda in...
Mountain Looms and Tidal Threads: Ós Textile Re...
In Blönduós, on Iceland’s northwestern coast, textiles seem to belong to the landscape as much as to the studio. The Icelandic Textile Center sits beside the glacial river Blanda in...
From Liberty to Loden: Tracing British Cloth in...
If you happen to be in Sweden this month, set aside an afternoon for the Nordiska Museet. British – Ever So Nordic, on view until 2 November 2025, is a...
From Liberty to Loden: Tracing British Cloth in...
If you happen to be in Sweden this month, set aside an afternoon for the Nordiska Museet. British – Ever So Nordic, on view until 2 November 2025, is a...
