Selvedge Stories
Deborah Cook: Missing Link
Deborah Cook, award-winning Costume Designer at LAIKA creates costumes for characters who are 11-14 inches tall. For the studio’s 2019 film, Missing Link, about globetrotting explorers, Deborah and her team...
Deborah Cook: Missing Link
Deborah Cook, award-winning Costume Designer at LAIKA creates costumes for characters who are 11-14 inches tall. For the studio’s 2019 film, Missing Link, about globetrotting explorers, Deborah and her team...
Sumptuous Velvets
Velvet has always been a luxurious fabric, and only available to the wealthy until quite recently. Sumptuously soft to the touch and gloriously reflecting light when it moves, it's easy...
Sumptuous Velvets
Velvet has always been a luxurious fabric, and only available to the wealthy until quite recently. Sumptuously soft to the touch and gloriously reflecting light when it moves, it's easy...
Learn Floral Embellishment
Selvedge’s 2020 workshops are now available to book. In June, multidisciplinary artist Lora Avedian will host a one-day embroidery workshop in London: Mixed-Media Floral Embellishment. Here we introduce Lora and...
Learn Floral Embellishment
Selvedge’s 2020 workshops are now available to book. In June, multidisciplinary artist Lora Avedian will host a one-day embroidery workshop in London: Mixed-Media Floral Embellishment. Here we introduce Lora and...
Inside Textile Conservation
Image credit: V&A. Catherine Harris, one of our team members, is studying Textile Conservation, alongside her work with Selvedge. She puts together our series of workshops and socials and helps...
Inside Textile Conservation
Image credit: V&A. Catherine Harris, one of our team members, is studying Textile Conservation, alongside her work with Selvedge. She puts together our series of workshops and socials and helps...
Exploring Massachusetts
Polly Leonard is Selvedge’s founder and editor. Here, Polly shares her thoughts on Massachusetts, an area she has traveled to regularly in 2019, and recommends some literary sites to visit....
Exploring Massachusetts
Polly Leonard is Selvedge’s founder and editor. Here, Polly shares her thoughts on Massachusetts, an area she has traveled to regularly in 2019, and recommends some literary sites to visit....
Soap holder pattern
Selvedge’s customer services manager, Hester Thorp, is also a crochet pattern designer. Here, Hester shares a simple, clever pattern for a modern ‘soap on a rope.’ “As we all try...
Soap holder pattern
Selvedge’s customer services manager, Hester Thorp, is also a crochet pattern designer. Here, Hester shares a simple, clever pattern for a modern ‘soap on a rope.’ “As we all try...
