Selvedge Stories

Airing Traditions: Gee’s Bend 2025
Each October in Gee’s Bend, Alabama, quilts are shaken out and lifted with pride into the open air. Hung across fences, porches, and clotheslines in a community-wide celebration of artistry...
Airing Traditions: Gee’s Bend 2025
Each October in Gee’s Bend, Alabama, quilts are shaken out and lifted with pride into the open air. Hung across fences, porches, and clotheslines in a community-wide celebration of artistry...

From Wardrobe to Gallery: The Story of 632 Wool...
What does one do with 632 wool skirts? For most, such a collection might seem overwhelming, impossible even. For artist and weaver Mae Colburn, it became a question worth pursuing...
From Wardrobe to Gallery: The Story of 632 Wool...
What does one do with 632 wool skirts? For most, such a collection might seem overwhelming, impossible even. For artist and weaver Mae Colburn, it became a question worth pursuing...

Wool Month 2025: Check It’s Wool
This October marks Wool Month 2025, a nationwide celebration across the UK championed by The Campaign for Wool and British Wool. Running from 3rd to 30th October, the initiative highlights...
Wool Month 2025: Check It’s Wool
This October marks Wool Month 2025, a nationwide celebration across the UK championed by The Campaign for Wool and British Wool. Running from 3rd to 30th October, the initiative highlights...

Women in Print: 150 Years of Liberty Textiles
At the William Morris Gallery this autumn, the familiar Liberty print is reframed. Women in Print: 150 Years of Liberty Textiles restores the designers behind the patterns — women whose...
Women in Print: 150 Years of Liberty Textiles
At the William Morris Gallery this autumn, the familiar Liberty print is reframed. Women in Print: 150 Years of Liberty Textiles restores the designers behind the patterns — women whose...

Wool Reimagined: The Work of João Bruno Videira
Wool was always part of the landscape of João Bruno Videira’s childhood. His mother’s passion for traditional Arraiolos rugs filled their home in Tomar, Portugal, with colour and texture, laying down...
Wool Reimagined: The Work of João Bruno Videira
Wool was always part of the landscape of João Bruno Videira’s childhood. His mother’s passion for traditional Arraiolos rugs filled their home in Tomar, Portugal, with colour and texture, laying down...

The Turner Prize 2025: Fabric in Focus
This December, the Turner Prize will be awarded in Bradford for the first time, with Cartwright Hall Art Gallery hosting the exhibition as part of Bradford’s year as UK City...
The Turner Prize 2025: Fabric in Focus
This December, the Turner Prize will be awarded in Bradford for the first time, with Cartwright Hall Art Gallery hosting the exhibition as part of Bradford’s year as UK City...