Selvedge Stories

Reimagining Fashion with Diana Uprichard and DO...
For designer, dressmaker, and sustainable fashion activist Diana Uprichard, textiles have always been woven into the fabric of life. Writing for Fashion Revolution, she remembers, “As a toddler, I loved...
Reimagining Fashion with Diana Uprichard and DO...
For designer, dressmaker, and sustainable fashion activist Diana Uprichard, textiles have always been woven into the fabric of life. Writing for Fashion Revolution, she remembers, “As a toddler, I loved...

A Last Curtain Call for Downton Abbey
For fifteen years, audiences have been welcomed through the grand doors of Downton Abbey, following the lives of the aristocratic Crawley family and their devoted staff. The series, spanning six...
A Last Curtain Call for Downton Abbey
For fifteen years, audiences have been welcomed through the grand doors of Downton Abbey, following the lives of the aristocratic Crawley family and their devoted staff. The series, spanning six...

Thread Memory: Embroidery from Palestine at V&A...
In the Palestinian Museum's archives, there's a photograph from 1935 showing women from Ramallah working collectively on their tatreez. Their heads bent over fabric, fingers working in practiced rhythm, they...
Thread Memory: Embroidery from Palestine at V&A...
In the Palestinian Museum's archives, there's a photograph from 1935 showing women from Ramallah working collectively on their tatreez. Their heads bent over fabric, fingers working in practiced rhythm, they...

The Woman Who Grew a Pair of Jeans
Justine Aldersey-Williams spent a year coaxing indigo and flax from Merseyside soil. She also has something no one else in Britain possesses: a pair of jeans made entirely from plants...
The Woman Who Grew a Pair of Jeans
Justine Aldersey-Williams spent a year coaxing indigo and flax from Merseyside soil. She also has something no one else in Britain possesses: a pair of jeans made entirely from plants...

Nowness: Celebrating Craft Through Film
Craft Works: Figures in Thread. Directed by Pierfrancesco Carta and Frances van Hasselt For those drawn to the artistry, heritage, and moving poetry of handmade traditions, the short film platform...
Nowness: Celebrating Craft Through Film
Craft Works: Figures in Thread. Directed by Pierfrancesco Carta and Frances van Hasselt For those drawn to the artistry, heritage, and moving poetry of handmade traditions, the short film platform...

The Unhurried Chair: Ames and the Art of Slow M...
Sebastian Herkner watched domino tiles clatter on cobblestones while pelicans wheeled overhead. In Gaira, a drowsy fishing village on Colombia's Caribbean coast, afternoon heat had driven residents to their doorsteps,...
The Unhurried Chair: Ames and the Art of Slow M...
Sebastian Herkner watched domino tiles clatter on cobblestones while pelicans wheeled overhead. In Gaira, a drowsy fishing village on Colombia's Caribbean coast, afternoon heat had driven residents to their doorsteps,...