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TEXTILES IN TRANSIT
This weekend will mark the finale of the London Transport Museum’s three month long project “Weaving Futures”. Since November of last year, the institution has been highlighting the importance of...
TEXTILES IN TRANSIT
This weekend will mark the finale of the London Transport Museum’s three month long project “Weaving Futures”. Since November of last year, the institution has been highlighting the importance of...
THE DRESS OF A LIFETIME
In an isolated village in the mountains of Sardinia, women’s dresses are acting as a social code. The colours, the needlework and the materials used to create traditional Sardinian dresses...
THE DRESS OF A LIFETIME
In an isolated village in the mountains of Sardinia, women’s dresses are acting as a social code. The colours, the needlework and the materials used to create traditional Sardinian dresses...
TEXTILES ON DEMAND
Hearing the phrase “print on demand” usually conjures up the image of books shooting out of an industrial printer. Now, this method of production has found a newer form. An...
TEXTILES ON DEMAND
Hearing the phrase “print on demand” usually conjures up the image of books shooting out of an industrial printer. Now, this method of production has found a newer form. An...
FROM CROWN TO COUTURE
Hand and Lock, the UK’s foremost specialist embroiderers, have been making work for the Royal family, the armed forces and Savile Row for well over 200 years. You might think...
FROM CROWN TO COUTURE
Hand and Lock, the UK’s foremost specialist embroiderers, have been making work for the Royal family, the armed forces and Savile Row for well over 200 years. You might think...
THE LONDON ARTISAN
Next month, The London Artisan will spring to life once more at the Old Truman Brewery in London. A marketplace curated to showcase the best of the UK’s contemporary makers...
THE LONDON ARTISAN
Next month, The London Artisan will spring to life once more at the Old Truman Brewery in London. A marketplace curated to showcase the best of the UK’s contemporary makers...
ART OR CRAFT?
“It’s less labour intensive than weaving,” says the artist Caroline Achaintre. She is of course referring to crafting what she calls her three-dimensional woollen paintings: a series of theatrical wall...
ART OR CRAFT?
“It’s less labour intensive than weaving,” says the artist Caroline Achaintre. She is of course referring to crafting what she calls her three-dimensional woollen paintings: a series of theatrical wall...
