Selvedge for the fabric of your life... Issue 42 - The Intrigue Issue Indulge: textiles to buy, collect or simply admire. Sitting Pretty - Can you ever have too many cushions? The Selvedge Autumn Fair - A round up of some of our favourite designers exhibiting at the Selvedge Autumn Fair on September 17th. Making Waves - Illustrator Claire Fletcher does love to be beside the seaside. Industry: from craft to commerce. Building Bridges - The struggle to save America’s industrial textile heritage. Death by Design - Textile related crime mysteries. Idle Hands - Prison charity Fine Cell Work won’t tolerate waste. Cover Story – The Triangle Fire - The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire. Anecdote: textiles that touch our lives. Cover Story – Crimes of Fashion - The seamy side of fashion. Fabric Swatch - No 6: Bombazine. A snippet of the history of a sombre funereal fabric. Cover Story – The Dressmaker’s Doll - A seamstress is plagued by strange occurrences in Agatha Christie’s spooky short story. Concept: Textiles in Fine Art. Cover Story - 'Art Institution' - Arthus Bispo de Rosario found freedom through making ‘Curator Martin Barlow looks at the work and troubled life of this troubled Brazilian outsider artist’ Cohabit: stunning interiors beautifully photographed. Cover Story – The Rajah Quilt - The work of unknown female convicts. Global: travel destinations and ethnographic textiles. First Class Style - Bruce Peter travels back in style on The Orient Express. Events: a chance to meet like-minded people. The Battle of the Blues - An indigo and woad study day at Fenton House Hampstead on Tuesday 6th September. The 4th Selvedge Autumn Fair. Plus: Inform - the latest news, reviews and exhibition listings.
Selvedge for the fabric of your life... Issue 40 - The Britannia Issue Textiles making waves... Established - Academic gowns, Queen Street Mill, Court dress, Madder Eclectic - The Festival of Britain, Orla Kiely, Yohji Yamamoto, Mark Herald Eccentric - Norfolk, Shoddy, Luella
Selvedge for the fabric of your life... Issue 33 - The Quilt Issue Piecing together the layers.. Picked - Natasha Kerr, péo, Quilts 1700-2010 at the V&A Patched - Green Knowe, Kantha Padded - Ellie vans, Apolline Haberdashery
Selvedge for the fabric of your life... Issue 39 - The Localisation Issue It's a small world after all... Laundry - White linen, wooden pegs. Living - Fashion cities, Amy Butler, Vietnam. Linen - MAYER, Peace Collection, Ma Ke.
Selvedge for the fabric of your life... Issue 36 - The Roving Issue Indulge: textiles to buy, collect or simply admire. Noteworthy - Festivals and shows not to be missed. Clear Purpose - Give us the tools and we will finish the job... Editor in chief Polly Leonard found beautiful sculptural textile tools at the Convergence conference in Albuquerque. Cover Story - Symbiotic - Anthropologie fill their shops with carefully chosen goods, one-off pieces and the fruits of their relationships with independent designers. How to... Be part of the Campaign for Wool by making a pretty knitted rug with Rowan's Purelife British Sheep breeds. Pattern available to download from 1st October. Fabric Swatch - A new feature on obscure fabrics, No. 1 serge. Sarah Jane Downing tracks down early references to this once commonplace wool cloth. Industry: from craft to commerce. Cover Story - Returning to the Fold - Wool is a fibre with friends in high places and has plans to make more... London Design Festival - Diaries at the ready as Origin, Decorex, 100% Design, Tent London et al return to the capital to showcase new talent and favourites from the past. Anecdote: textiles that touch our lives. Cover Story - Scrap of a Thing - 18th Century textile tokens from the Foundling Museum. Faithful Flock - The architectural splendour of the wool churches. Concept: Textiles in Fine Art. Jones the Book- Drawing at the National Wool Museum, Carmarthenshire, Wales. Attire: critical reporting of fashion trends. Cover Story - Life's Werk: Eley Kishimoto - Cynthia Rose finds out how these fashion designers kept things fresh. Cover Story - Foraging for Fashion - Gonul Paksoy approaches art from a different angle, incorporating all she knows about science, cookery and design. Cohabit: stunning interiors beautifully photographed. Cover Story - Good Housekeeping - Ahead of the opening of Gudrun Sjoden's first London shop this autumn Cia Wedin is invited to discover more about her home and her ethical approach to business. Global: travel destinations and ethnographic textiles. Vera Neumann President of the Vera Company, Susan Seid reflects on the art of an American icon. Events: a chance to meet like-minded people. Join Selvedge for a private view of the Threads of Feeling Exhibition at the Foundling Museum on the 26th October. Plus: Inform - the latest news, reviews and exhibition listings.
