'In “Cotton–Cork Blended Fabric: An Innovative and Sustainable Apparel Textile for the Fashion Industry,” published in April in the peer-reviewed journal Sustainability, the duo compared the material properties of a cotton fabric to a 10 percent-cork fabric, which is also a natural and sustainable material. The cotton-cork blend was found to be strong, pliable, easily dyed, and resistant to shrinkage.”'
The trading posts in #Gallup are impressive. With Zuni Pueblo, the Navajo Nation, and Hopi in close proximity, the density of artistic talent in the immediate area is impressive.
RIP Faith Riggold, who worked for years un(der) recognised by the mainstream art word but in recent years has become seen as the great innovator she was - bridging painting & textiles and responding to the (now more recognised) exclusion of the work of both women & non-white artists from the history of art....
Here are two of her works making direct reference to the every issues
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..".
Official estimates show that textiles is the second-biggest employer in India after Agriculture. And yet, it is an under-utilised engine of India’s manufacturing push. Here are five charts that explain this in detail.
WORLD ON FIRE DRESS. A visual representation of the world on fire by nataliewalsh.com. This dress is made from fabric produced by the California Cotton & Climate Coalition (C4) - farmers, researchers, and companies working together to scale the implementation of carbon farming practices in California's Central Valley. Free of additives, and all dyes and pigments are natural. Exhibited at Fibershed (fibershed.org) in Point Reyes Station CA. #Textiles#Clothing#Art#Fiberarts
Appeal: does anyone have any juicy photos of museum/collection textiles that I may use in a training session? (With credit, obviously.)
I'm after:
👔 packed/stored textiles (stored well or poorly, your choice!)
👚 examples of different types of historic and modern textiles
👗 examples of damage to textiles (stains, tears, pest nibbles, anything!)
🧶 identified fibres under a microscope
Finally, my best #Yarnuary tip. If you're lucky enough to be bought an adjustable tailor's dummy for Christmas, make sure you take your measurements like I did, early on Boxing Day. You may be horrified at the time but now I feel smug knocking off a few centimetres without suffering too much dieting hell.
Second arm finished...I'm calling it 'heart on my sleeve' as I've managed to incorporate an anatomical heart and a swirly one. There's a brain at the top...
My mom sent me an e-mail with some photos in it last week of some new #quilts she has available, here is one of them, check it out! My mom likes doing really experimental stuff with quilts, this one's really modern, lots of awesome stuff going on in this one. It measures 72 x 84 in (183 x 213 cm), so it is nice and large. Let me know if you'd like to take a nap under this dazzling piece of #textile#art! ~~~ #quilt#arts#artwork#artist#artists#quilting#quilter#quilters#decor#textiles
I made this wall art/canvas thing a few years ago. I made it from an old pair of jeans and a wooden frame I scavaged from a discarded canvas picture thing.
I basically just cut up the jeans and pinned it to one side stretched it across and secured it the other side.
On January 18, 2014. Photo of a young woman from San Antonio Palopó, Lake Atitlán, Guatemala, wearing traditional clothing styles. The tinsel braided into the hair was, for me, a beautiful feature.
First sleeve completed apart from a bit of surface work. A lot of Georgia O'Keeffe-type spirals. Big shout out to all the independent dyers and spinners this yarn came from. When it's finished, I'll post links to them.
I’m excited to have burning questions about biotech textile innovation, scalability, recyclability, and much more answered by Modern Meadow CEO, Catherine Roggero-Lovisi.
As Fafafoom Studio Newsletter enters its second year of publication, I look forward to offer more content beyond my monthly artist life updates. Happy belated 2024, Fashion Social peeps!
I cheated on this one, and am thinking of 1k as 1block in a quilt. I simplified the colors and reduced the output size, but this is based on my Anni Albers project (day 11).
New Year new #Wikipedia list. Reebee Garofalo was one of the original people who put together Rock Against Racism Massachusetts but you may know him as the snare player for the Good Trouble Brass Band playing in the HONK! Festival of Activist Street Bands. He was cited in a ton of other Wikipedia articles and made that Genealogy of Pop/Rock Music chart you may have seen in an Edward Tufte book. A good guy to get to know, deserves a longer article but this is good for now https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reebee_Garofalo
A pal noted that it was weird that 41st VT governor Nelson Fisk had a Wikipedia page while his wife Elizabeth Hubbell Fisk, who had revitalized a kind of woven textile art, did not.
I wrote one. I will note that some of this is "Bored rich white lady finds something to do and Vermont likes to write about their own" but some was definitely not and I enjoyed learning about her and scaring up old sources from the Wayback Machine and Newspapers.com #weaving#textiles