Selvedge Stories
EMBROIDERING STORIES
Image: Canal Beauty (detail) Karen Fullalove embroiders stories. An artist and designer based in the UK, she uses canvas embroidery and inlaid woven embroidery techniques to embroider designs that embrace the styles...
EMBROIDERING STORIES
Image: Canal Beauty (detail) Karen Fullalove embroiders stories. An artist and designer based in the UK, she uses canvas embroidery and inlaid woven embroidery techniques to embroider designs that embrace the styles...
LONG THREAD: BARCELONA FABRICS
This article, Barcelona Fabrics, is part of our Long Thread series and was written by Patricia Cleveland-Peck. I am surrounded by finely woven lengths of silk and wool suspended from the ceiling, there...
LONG THREAD: BARCELONA FABRICS
This article, Barcelona Fabrics, is part of our Long Thread series and was written by Patricia Cleveland-Peck. I am surrounded by finely woven lengths of silk and wool suspended from the ceiling, there...
MY LIFE IN CLOTHES
Claire Wilcox is the Senior Curator of Fashion at the V&A and Professor of Fashion Curation at London College of Fashion. In Patch Work, she deftly stitches her study of...
MY LIFE IN CLOTHES
Claire Wilcox is the Senior Curator of Fashion at the V&A and Professor of Fashion Curation at London College of Fashion. In Patch Work, she deftly stitches her study of...
BLACK DESIGNERS IN AMERICAN FASHION
From Elizabeth Keckly's designs as a freewoman for Abraham Lincoln's wife to flamboyant clothing showcased by Patrick Kelly in Paris, Black designers have made major contributions to American fashion. However,...
BLACK DESIGNERS IN AMERICAN FASHION
From Elizabeth Keckly's designs as a freewoman for Abraham Lincoln's wife to flamboyant clothing showcased by Patrick Kelly in Paris, Black designers have made major contributions to American fashion. However,...
BEAUTIFUL BROCADE
Long before the Spanish conquest of the Americas that began with Mexico in 1521, Mayan land was contiguous and vast. Mayan peoples spanned what we now know as Chiapas, the...
BEAUTIFUL BROCADE
Long before the Spanish conquest of the Americas that began with Mexico in 1521, Mayan land was contiguous and vast. Mayan peoples spanned what we now know as Chiapas, the...
BIG ON STYLE
Have you seen the striking cover of the latest issue of Selvedge? Kristian and Peggy Schuller are one of the art world’s most iconic couples. Having studied fashion under Vivienne...
BIG ON STYLE
Have you seen the striking cover of the latest issue of Selvedge? Kristian and Peggy Schuller are one of the art world’s most iconic couples. Having studied fashion under Vivienne...
