Selvedge Stories
HAND & LOCK AND FINGERS CROSSED
Image: Detail of embroidered denim jacket. Ana Maria Restrepo (Colombia). Finalist, Textile Open Art category. The 2022 iteration of the world’s premier embroidery competition has just entered its final round....
HAND & LOCK AND FINGERS CROSSED
Image: Detail of embroidered denim jacket. Ana Maria Restrepo (Colombia). Finalist, Textile Open Art category. The 2022 iteration of the world’s premier embroidery competition has just entered its final round....
BON VOYAGE
Image: Lesley Manville stars as Mrs Harris, in Mrs Harris Goes to Paris. Photo: Dávid Lukács / © 2021. Ada Films Ltd. FILM: Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris (Entertainment...
BON VOYAGE
Image: Lesley Manville stars as Mrs Harris, in Mrs Harris Goes to Paris. Photo: Dávid Lukács / © 2021. Ada Films Ltd. FILM: Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris (Entertainment...
FRAGMENT OF A DRESS
‘My mother was a seamstress…I still have a wool coat she wore often. When I wear it, I feel her hugging me.’ ‘When I was nineteen, I had a short...
FRAGMENT OF A DRESS
‘My mother was a seamstress…I still have a wool coat she wore often. When I wear it, I feel her hugging me.’ ‘When I was nineteen, I had a short...
EXCELENTE TRABAJO
Image: It is obvious that Mexico’s Indigenous artisans have spent centuries perfecting their crafts, and passing these skills from generation to generation, only to now receive paltry financial rewards on...
EXCELENTE TRABAJO
Image: It is obvious that Mexico’s Indigenous artisans have spent centuries perfecting their crafts, and passing these skills from generation to generation, only to now receive paltry financial rewards on...
OUT TOMORROW: ISSUE 109
Image: Cover, Issue 109. BIAS: Polly Leonard The lavish excess of ornamentation in the embroidery practised by the Spanish Lagartera might be considered anathema to someone educated within Bauhaus principles of modernism...
OUT TOMORROW: ISSUE 109
Image: Cover, Issue 109. BIAS: Polly Leonard The lavish excess of ornamentation in the embroidery practised by the Spanish Lagartera might be considered anathema to someone educated within Bauhaus principles of modernism...
FINE AND DANDY
Image: Detail of embroidered court suit, 1770-85. Courtesy of Manchester Art Gallery Tom Ford once said, “British men are peacocks. You see a lot more style on the streets here than...
FINE AND DANDY
Image: Detail of embroidered court suit, 1770-85. Courtesy of Manchester Art Gallery Tom Ford once said, “British men are peacocks. You see a lot more style on the streets here than...
