Sew Eco by Ruth Singer
Sew Eco by Ruth Singer is a compelling guide to sustainable textile arts, offering innovative projects and insights for eco-friendly creativity.
Sew Eco by Ruth Singer is a compelling guide to sustainable textile arts, offering innovative projects and insights for eco-friendly creativity.
Smocking is a well known traditional embroidery technique, which gathers fabric together into tight pleats so that is can stretch and return to its gathered shape. It is often used as a form of decoration on a garment, as the gathering of the material and stitches can be formulated to create patterns.
“The act of mending, here and now, a series of small objects which I can hold in my hand, has been very helpful in terms
Introduction Sew It Up: a modern manual of sewing techniques: A Modern Manual of Practical and Decorative Sewing Techniques by Ruth Singer. Published by Kyle
My 2015 exhibition Narrative Threads explored physical and emotional engagement with cloth, exploring tactility, memory and personal stories, mostly around old domestic textiles. I’m interested in
The Victoria & Albert Museum is world-renowned for its textiles and fashion collections, and rightly so, as they take care of thousands of truly spectacular
For the next few months, Pinning the Past will be focussing on museums with marvellous textiles to see. Bankfield Museum in Halifax, Yorkshire is one
I first saw this house as a teenager. It was closed up, somewhat ruinous with overgrown gardens and unbearably romantic. The National Trust had just acquired it
My nearest fashion museum is sadly very little-known and at risk of closure, which is really tragic considering it has one of the largest displays
Last month’s column on tapestry looked at who owned tapestries and why. This month we’ll be delving deeper into the making of tapestry. Did anyone
What Is Shadow Embroidery? Shadow work is a delicate but simple hand embroidery technique that makes use of sheer fabrics to great effect. It was
Antique ribbons can be pretty special items in themselves, but when they are used to create interesting decorations and trimmings, ribbons become something even more