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Founder of Paiwand, a unique textile studio that repurposes fashion waste into upcycled handwoven textiles, Ashita Singhal is a weaver, textile artist, and social entrepreneur. She believes in working with limited resources and local materials. Being born and bred in Delhi, one of India's most polluted cities, she star

Anne Marie O'Sullivan runs the Willow Basketry week If you are planning your summer holiday and want something a little more interesting than just toasting on a beach (although wouldn't a bit of heat right now be great?), can we point you to our friends at Selvedge Magazine, who run an amazing summer school. Chateau Dumas Week long courses at the picturesque Chateau Dumas, France (food's amazing too, I've been told) are run by experts in their field on topics from willow basketry…

Polly Leonard is the founder of Selvedge magazine. Launched 12 years ago following a successful crowdfunding campaign, what originally started as a one-off publication created in Polly’s front room...

We visit the recently renovated Merchant & Mills fabric store

Zuri, a new New York City and Nairobi based fashion label has launched with a plan to simplify wardrobes. The label specialises in ‘Just One Dress’, a versatile shaped garment that can be worn as a dress, jacket, tunic or skirt by people of all ages and body types. The co-founders, Sandra Zhao and Ashleigh Miller, col

India Flint op Instagram: ". • An early email this morning was demanding a photograph for a magazine article. Apparently the image of me that I like to put about (in…"

Jacket by Mandy Pattullo for 'Thrift & Thread' Contemporary Heirlooms

ASEEDONCLÖUD derives from a picture book title (A Seed On Cloud) created by designer, Kentaro Tamai. Their collection are based on the working clothes, inspired by late 19th to early 20th century workwear, imagining alternative ways of life and work and the clothes that would be required.Image and image above: ASEEDON

For Mira Gupta, as she writes in her article “Lessons in Chemistry,” “There’s something thrilling about resist dyeing. You control the dye but not the result. It’s like controlled chaos, a surprise party in every vat.” Such a boldly colourful assertion prompted me to question what it is it about resist dyeing that make

Image: Cressida Bell, Parasol Shawl, Cream Yellow Blue. We were delighted to interview to textile designer Cressida Bell following our article Squaring the Circle in the current issue of Selvedge, 105 Checks & Stripes. Read on to explore more about Cressida's colourful life, including her design process, her thoug

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Addressing textiles as a distinctive area of cultural practice and field of scholarly research, The Textile Reader introduces students to the key issues essenti…

Sabine Kaner is a UK fine art textile artist. Her exhibition Hand Stitched Stories at The Knitting & Stitching Show 2023 at Alexandra Palace, London from 5 – 8 October 2023 and Harrogate Convention Centre, Harrogate from 16 – 19 November 2023.Sabine, in your own words, as a fine art textile practitioner you bring a

HEADS UP Gurjeet Singh's soft approach to hard truths Lopsided eyes, golden teardrops, phallic noses, colourful horns, and sewn lips... Behind Gurjeet...

It is difficult to imagine the place of textiles in contemporary art without Sheila Hicks. She has vastly advanced the medium and played a vital role in the propagation and legacy of textile arts. Now eighty-seven, Hicks, originally from Nebraska, is renowned for her experimental and colourful textile installations, ea

IN CONVERSATION WITH CARIN MANSFIELD – Selvedge Magazine

"The answer is love, that's all I know." Dear Reader After dedicating many years of my life in transforming textiles, I’m...