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There are some really innovative, inspiring textiles on the Trendtablet at the moment. Find out more:

http://www.trendtablet.com/4155-talking-textiles/

WSA alumni Hannah Robson has just graduated from the Royal College of Art where she developed beautiful sculptural forms using a variety of textiles construction techniques.

CONGRATULATIONS HANNAH!

FASHION FORWARD, 3 SIÈCLES DE MODE (1715-2016)

from 7 April to 14 August 2016

The Musée des Arts Décoratifs is celebrating the thirtieth anniversary of its fashion collection from April 7 to August 14, 2016. In doing so we are responding to our public’s strongly expressed desire to at last be shown an all-embracing panorama of fashion history over several centuries. It will also be an unique opportunity to showcase the jewels and highlight the particularities of a national fashion and textiles collection curated in full dialogue with the other departments of a museum dedicated to all the decorative arts. The ‟Fashion Forward, 3 Centuries of Fashion (1715-2016)” exhibition will bring together 300 items of men’s, women’s and children’s fashion from the 18thcentury to today, selected from the museum’s collections to provide a novel chronological overview.

A fascinating piece on the Forbes Pigment Collection, located in the library of Harvard Art Museum.

http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2015/09/a-wall-of-color-a-window-to-the-past/

DEGREE SHOWS IN LONDON THIS SUMMER!

MAKE A DAY OF IT AND GET INSPIRED...

UAL Chelsea

UAL Central Saint Martin’s

RCA

Just watched this beautiful 30 minute film on a family of weavers near Hotan in North West China. The colours, patterns and the people are wonderful and its all about weaving, what more could you want!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b079cgml/handmade-on-the-silk-road-1-the-weaver

WELCOME TO SPRING!!!

Have a look at these beautiful textile flowers:

http://www.karunaballoo.fr/

Nigerian-born fashion designer, writer, afrobeat artist and attorney Walé Oyéjidé and tailor Sam Hubbler are the duo behind the Philadelphia-based menswear brand, Ikiré Jones. Combining West African aesthetics with Neapolitan tailoring, the brand strives to create collections that tell a story. The fashion editorial for its latest collection, After Migration tells the story of African asylum-seekers living in Italy.

The website is full of interesting clips

http://www.ikirejones.com/

This multi disciplinary textiles exhibition opened last night at Central Saint Martin’s Lethaby gallery and is really worth a visit.

Dates: 23 February – 1 April 2016 Opening hours: Tuesday – Friday | 11am – 6pm , Saturday | 12 – 5pm Venue: Lethaby Gallery, Central Saint Martins, 1 Granary Square, King’s Cross, London, N1C 4AAA

I saw this Dutch company at PV’s maison d’exceptions last week:

EE Exclusives develops high-end, custom made jacquard woven fabrics for exclusive wall-coverings, couture fashion, furniture upholstery, independent art projects and book covers. They specialise in project based exclusive (small) quantities and special editions for (fashion) designers, architects and artists.

EE Exclusives is part of Van Engelen & Evers, weaving in Heeze, the Netherlands, since 1900.

http://www.ee-exclusives.com/

https://player.vimeo.com/video/107946128

Please watch this documentary by Albert Maysles (of Grey Gardens fame) about the collector Iris Apfel. she is quite remarkable and a real inspiration...

http://www.netflix.com/watch/80027120?trackId=13752289&tctx=0%2C0%2C205c10c1aa9ba72806315cd11a3202ab6f5a4e65%3Aaa86f980bb3ea6010779980f5b7c199d5f01bf7f

Visited the Saul Leiter exhibition at the Photographer’s Gallery yesterday. His colour photographs are beautiful compositions and the recoloured photographs are very interesting.

His work was an important inspiration for Todd Haynes’ film Carol.

http://thephotographersgallery.org.uk/saul-leiter-2

This painting by Sir Frederick Leighton would have been a good one to study for the Woven Colour project.

Visit his amazing house in London, in particular the Arab Hall.

https://www.rbkc.gov.uk/subsites/museums/leightonhousemuseum1.aspx

I just came across this blog with these fantastic photos of Chinami’s grandmother modelling her brightly coloured weaves.

https://www.instagram.com/1000wave/

I visited the Alexander Calder exhibition at Tate modern over the weekend and have not stopped thinking about the concept of ‘balance’ since...

It is unmissable!!!

http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/exhibition/alexander-calder-performing-sculpture?gclid=CP3Ezu3Wx8oCFcyRGwodoscDIA

Matohu is a Japanese company led by Hiroyuki Horihata and Makiko Sekiguchi.

They produce simple styles using interesting fabrics, with a strong concept at the centre of each collection.

it is well worth spending some time exploring their website:

http://www.matohu.com/en/

A very interesting short film on how Louise Bourgeois’ work has inspired Simone Rocha.

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