Experiments Begin with Co-Design Postmodernism Prints!!

Hot off the press!! Emma and Geraldine's postmodernism prints converge in an intergallactic collision! Geraldine's grass green and hot pink are softened for an older look...the red to catch the lips!!

Slow Textiles Group Members Pioneer New Design System!!

Innovate the system and you'll innovate the product. That's what the Slow Textiles Group specialises in!

Here's a sneak preview of a new print identity methodology that some of our members are working on.
See the last page for a brief introduction to the methodology and further details:

Open publication - Free publishing - More co-design

Create a Cubo-Futurism Print on an Alexander McQueen Garment!!

Learn to generate digital placement prints inspired by hand-painted Cubo-Futurism for an amazing Alexander McQueen 
couture garment in The Slow Textiles Group's gorgeous London studio!!

Taking place on December 3rd 2011 at 2pm, 
this is a pioneering workshop in slow processes married with fast to create a new, bespoke aesthetic - that you then make and wear! Anyone can do it - it's easy with stunning results!!

Scroll to Page 12 for details in our 

Workshops 2011 Pdf booklet here:

"An Introduction to Cubo-Futurism: Learn to Create Placement Prints for Dynamic and Timeless Fashion Textiles"!!!!


Equipped with new skills, you'll be able to transfer your new knowledge to any Placement Print dress-making project!!

The Future of Sustainable Design in the UK?!!

The Slow Textiles Group says take a good, long look at the Design Council's thinkers of the future of sustainable design in the UK:

Now practise your image analysis skills on the pics from the Design Council's Design Summit, 2011:

Lastly, Dr Emma Neuberg renames the Design Council's

Design Technology in Schools promotional video, 

"Creative Britain in Reverse?," as 

"Introduction to the Lost Object 

or How to Kill Innovation in a Generation,

 (As Communicated By A Soundtrack)":

Slow Textiles on Film!

The first tremors...directed by Javier Barcala.

2012 is the Slow Textiles Group launch year!

The dynamic, pioneering group with its searing vision 
and vibrant energy will showcase 
international textiles as never seen before!

Watch this space!

Slow Textiles Five Year Plan Launches soon!!

An exciting new publication,

New Wave:

The Five Year Plan to Kickstart Textiles in the UK Today, 

is launching in the New Year; 

it maps out the new route for all your talent and skills.

We have the best design talent in the world and what happens to it?

If you've got something to say, email

emma@slowtextiles.org!

NEWS!! FLASH!! London Calling!!

The Great British Houses of Parliament designed by Charles Barry and Augustus Pugin in 1840 in the midst of an economic recession and still standing!

Exciting news!! 


Members of the Slow Textiles group are meeting 
British Parliamentary Design and Sustainability Groups 
and their MPs in Westminster next week to make a noise about the power of textile design talent in the UK, its offer, potential and future scenarios!

Slow Textiles Group member, Julie Behseta, shows her innovating textiles work at the Houses of Parliament exhibition, in tandem with Coca Cola and the Royal College of Art, Materials for Living, November 2011.