Selvedge Stories
Why We Sew
I am planning an afternoon at my sewing machine today. Concerned about the difficulty in guaranteeing the provenance of my clothing I have been working to improve my dressmaking skills...
Why We Sew
I am planning an afternoon at my sewing machine today. Concerned about the difficulty in guaranteeing the provenance of my clothing I have been working to improve my dressmaking skills...
Comme Des Marxists
Comme des Marxists continues Austrian born New York based artist Rainer Ganahl’s long-term investigations into the relationships between daily life, culture, economic systems and political structures. The ongoing project, presented...
Comme Des Marxists
Comme des Marxists continues Austrian born New York based artist Rainer Ganahl’s long-term investigations into the relationships between daily life, culture, economic systems and political structures. The ongoing project, presented...
Weaver, Writer, Survivor
Last month, we featured an extract from a beautiful book by Deb Brandon, called Threads Around the World. It features many interesting textile stories from different parts of the...
Weaver, Writer, Survivor
Last month, we featured an extract from a beautiful book by Deb Brandon, called Threads Around the World. It features many interesting textile stories from different parts of the...
Pretty In Print
This December Mary Ward House in central London will be transformed into a textile capital for one day only, as the Selvedge Winter Fair gets underway. One of our exhibitors, Cambridge Imprint is a design partnership based in...
Pretty In Print
This December Mary Ward House in central London will be transformed into a textile capital for one day only, as the Selvedge Winter Fair gets underway. One of our exhibitors, Cambridge Imprint is a design partnership based in...
Moody Hues
Perhaps as an antidote to last year's harsh winter, in Milan two designers offered soft, muted, comforting colours for the season. Indeed, the clothing by Missoni and Etro could easily...
Moody Hues
Perhaps as an antidote to last year's harsh winter, in Milan two designers offered soft, muted, comforting colours for the season. Indeed, the clothing by Missoni and Etro could easily...
Claiming Needles
Finnish artist Noora Schroderus likes playing with societal assumptions. By embroidering bank notes - a rather simple act in one sense - Schroderus makes a tongue-in-cheek statement about notions of power,...
Claiming Needles
Finnish artist Noora Schroderus likes playing with societal assumptions. By embroidering bank notes - a rather simple act in one sense - Schroderus makes a tongue-in-cheek statement about notions of power,...
