"Selfridges expands fashion resale service nationwide"
"How do manufacturing choices affect microfiber shed"
How to Grow a Dye Garden With Aaron Sanders Head
Tue, Apr 16, 2024
3 sessions - $65 per person
"...Design your very own dye garden, sowing the seeds for a diverse palette of color. Over the course of 3 weeks, textile artist Aaron Sanders Head will walk through the process of planning, planting, and maintaining the garden, as well as mechanisms for harvesting & storing dye materials you can use in your craft..".
Everything you need to know about Textiles
I found this on Facebook and thought others might also like to explain to their (as I have been endeavoring to do and failing miserably at) that we have to .
Anyone who is successful at this mission, please advise the rest of us how you accomplished such a great feat.
Textiles and food packaging biggest source of PFAS in Yangtze River
another of my attempts to take a photo-wallpaper like the wikimedia or flickr Pros do located in a small village..
Indanthren Textilien, 1936 - Reklame AK
Dezeen : Barbican's Unravel exhibition explores the subversive power of textiles
Boobs incoming
Big fan of this quilt at the Glasgow Womens Library - a lovely, welcoming and unexpectedly large space w/ multiple exhibits, tea/coffee & community spaces in addition to incredible collections
Design Milk : A Material Swap Brings the Kalon Rugosa Collection Outside
If you like what you see, you can find my Spoonflower shop here with my existing work:
SPOONFLOWER PATTERN BOOK V2 SAMPLES HAVE ARRIVED!
I'm not showing everything, but seeing these designs on fabric is awesome!
Need to adjust some stuff based on the sample, but I'm looking forward to Pattern Book V2 weekend's release!
magnolia fabric - Bute Park - Cardiff
Woven into Akea Brionnes glimmery Afro-surrealist tapestries is an impulse toward sustainability.
Dezeen : Novelties 2024 rugs by Kvadrat
My brain is so fizzy with inspiration. I don't know if it's stuff or not but I suddenly have realised how a couple of things I'm doing have joined up to become a new creative idea. It's still really early stages but the I'm desperate to get cracking. I've had to order some materials and there will be pictures. I've very excited. Sorry for the vagueness - it's not deliberate I'm just trying to figure out the right words. The pictures will hopefully help.
Josh Hoyle's
Joshua Hoyle and Sons Building in Manchester.
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"Secondhand clothing on track to take 10% of global fashion sales"
"Asos and Boohoo agree to ban greenwashing words like sustainable in major deal"
Dezeen : Colorado rugs by Inga Sempe for Nanimarquina
In ancient Andean communities, colorful geometric patterns in wool were used to communicate messages across linguistic and geographic boundaries.
Posted into ART INSPIRATION
tunic with confronting catfish, from Peru, Nasca-Wari peoples, 800-850 AD
Oh boy, it's been a busy few days! Last week I taught a beginners course in how to identify textiles in collections, and today I've delivered a similar training session on how to ID plastics.
My brain feels like it might be full of ONLY knowledge about polymers and fibre types now.
If someone needs me I'll be a heap on the sofa with the doggo.
woman's dress, from Peru, Chuquibamba peoples, c.14th-early 16th century
ensemble, American, c.1835
watching closely bid to ban $1bn exports of -hand
1.4 million metric tons of used in 2022, more than twice as much as two decades ago, according to data. If approved, the EU member states would not be allowed to export second-hand clothes to Africa and .
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Dezeen : FranklinTill shares nine principles for a shift to regenerative materials
"Ultra-fast fashion is a disturbing trend undermining efforts to make the whole industry more sustainable"
The 32nd East China presents quality , and , and material, , and , home and . 1.-4. April 2024. Shanghai New International Center, , .
"Apple waste, spider silk, enhanced cotton: How bio-based textiles could replace plastic in our clothing"
"Three ways your wardrobe could help you avoid fast fashion"
"Why secondhand markets and apps are not a solution to clothing waste"
Die arbeitet an einem Weg, wie knftig im Bereich des viele der aktuellen eingespart und das damit um ein Vielfaches nachhaltiger werden knnte.
Dezeen : Raw Edges' Home Sweet Home collection for Cozmo recreates "cosiness of coming back home"
Dezeen : Go-To upholstery fabrics by Carnegie Fabrics
Nigerias ancient Ilorin city - archaeologist uncovers over 1,000 years of history
Archaeology Africa Trade
Official estimates show that textiles is the second-biggest employer in India after Agriculture. And yet, it is an under-utilised engine of Indias manufacturing push. Here are five charts that explain this in detail.
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"eBay UK backs circular economy innovators in fashion with fresh funding"
This is a 54 x 54 in (137 x 137 cm) that my mom did, below are pics of the front and back of it. This one is done with batik fabrics that are hand-dyed from Indonesia. Anyone out there who would like a gorgeous new quilt to bring a lot of vibrancy to their interior, let me know! Perfect for a sofa or armchair or small bed, or for displaying on the wall
Design Milk : Christopher Farr Merges Illustration With Textiles for The Elder Statesman