Selvedge Stories
THEY REMAIN
Image: Poppies. Photo: Jayne Burton for the Royal British Legion. Text: Sarah Jane Downing The value of embroidery to occupy and calm those afflicted with combat stress was enshrined during...
THEY REMAIN
Image: Poppies. Photo: Jayne Burton for the Royal British Legion. Text: Sarah Jane Downing The value of embroidery to occupy and calm those afflicted with combat stress was enshrined during...
MASTER CRAFT
Image: Hitoshi Maida yuzen-dyeing. Courtesy of The Japan Foundation. In Japan, yuzen-dyeing became the fashionable at the end of the 17th century. It is a paste resist-dyeing technique, used to create large,...
MASTER CRAFT
Image: Hitoshi Maida yuzen-dyeing. Courtesy of The Japan Foundation. In Japan, yuzen-dyeing became the fashionable at the end of the 17th century. It is a paste resist-dyeing technique, used to create large,...
KEEPING TIME
Image: Colourful bobbins. Courtesy of Whitchurch Silk Mill. Whitchurch Silk Mill is the oldest silk mill in the UK, built in 1813 on land owned by the Dean and Chapter...
KEEPING TIME
Image: Colourful bobbins. Courtesy of Whitchurch Silk Mill. Whitchurch Silk Mill is the oldest silk mill in the UK, built in 1813 on land owned by the Dean and Chapter...
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...
