Julia Mallory shares her series of capes, created to ‘tell stories about ‘tell stories about Black folks’ relationship to labor, leisure, and loss’…
… My Cape is Hanging Somewhere in a Museum
Category: textiles
Interview: ‘Poets in Vogue’ with Sarah Parker and Sophie Oliver
The relationship between text and textiles is writ large at this perfectly crafted exhibition…
… Interview: ‘Poets in Vogue’ with Sarah Parker and Sophie Oliver“Put your hand up if you’re wearing something knitted!”
Figures 1 and 2. Elinor at a Homemade knitting machine workshop for children. Image: Elnaz Yazdani
Are you wearing something knitted today? Given the broad array of knitted fabrics on the market and the recent lockdown trend for comfort dressing, we’d say it’s very likely – but did you know your clothes were knitted? We have been involved with either teaching about or creating knitting on knitting machines for over 15 years and we often forget that once upon a time we didn’t know that so much of our clothing was knitted.
… “Put your hand up if you’re wearing something knitted!”
Monster Sweaters: in conversation with Ýrúrarí
Ýrúrarí’s mostly knit-based practice see fragments of humour, body movements and the everyday meet in wool based, wearable objects.
… Monster Sweaters: in conversation with Ýrúrarí
Wrapped up in a fairy tale: Jessie M. King and the production of wearable designs
Although Scottish artist, designer and teacher Jessie M. King (1875-1949) is probably most celebrated for her delicate and often whimsical illustrative work, this short article will focus on her clothing designs and dissemination of knowledge via her how-to-publication How Cinderella went to the Ball (1924).
… Wrapped up in a fairy tale: Jessie M. King and the production of wearable designs
Healing Garments, Ceyda Oskay
Multidisciplinary artist Ceyda Oskay draws on textiles and clothing to explore notions of place and human relationships. Keying into traditions of ritual costume and performance, her wearable art work often explores the way garments mediate between us and the world, playing a central role in the rituals and embodied practices central to the human experience.
… Healing Garments, Ceyda Oskay
A Creative Conversation: Stéphanie Ruth & Anna Perach
Drawing on personal experience and folkloric myths, Anna Perach uses a traditional craft technique called tufting to create wearable sculptures that come to life during performances in front of a live audience.
… A Creative Conversation: Stéphanie Ruth & Anna Perach
Emily Grimble, C19 Text Talk (2020)
‘C19 Text Talk’ is a hand-embroidered diary, comprised of 50 text works, made over a period of 100 days since the enforcement of the UK lockdown on the 23rd March 2020.
… Emily Grimble, C19 Text Talk (2020)
Spotlight: Black Girl Knit Club
Find out more about Sicgmone Kludje & Vea Koranteng’s knitting club…
… Spotlight: Black Girl Knit Club
Spotlight: Veiled Voices 2020
Veiled Voices 2020 is an inclusive community embroidery project, which invites women across the UK to come together and explore perceptions of Hijab wearing in Britain, with the aim of creating understanding and friendship.
… Spotlight: Veiled Voices 2020
Sewing Social Histories with Stitches in Time
Stitches in Time began as an experiment to see if sewing could start conversations between strangers – Lottie Whalen interviewed the team to find out more…
… Sewing Social Histories with Stitches in Time
Practice-based: Aninda Varma
Tussar, Chanderi, Kanjeevaram, Bandini, Patola – these are names I would often hear around me while growing up in India, and I remember vividly the accompanied excitement that these words would conjure, and the all-consuming beauty and vibrancy that would follow.
… Practice-based: Aninda Varma
Stitching Solidarity: Janie Terrero and the Political Power of the Needle
Janie Terrero’s decision to declare her identity at the centre of her work is a gesture of defiance towards the Prison’s attempt to anonymise inmates in an effort to prevent solidarity from forming.
… Stitching Solidarity: Janie Terrero and the Political Power of the Needle
Spotlight: Guernica Remakings
Guernica Remaking, a research project led by Dr. Nicola Ashmore, seeks to explore how the radical energy of this political charged artwork is being harnessed by community groups across the globe.
… Spotlight: Guernica Remakings
Curator Interview: Tracing the Bauhaus Threads with Erica Warren
Continuing Decorating Dissidence’s exploration into the legacy of the Bauhaus weaving workshops, Suzanna Petot got in touch with Erica Warren, Associate Curator in the Department of Textiles at the Art Institute of Chicago, to ask a few questions about her career and her most recent exhibition…
… Curator Interview: Tracing the Bauhaus Threads with Erica Warren
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