Ying Wu Textiles Talk with the Slow Textiles Group on June 15th from 2-6pm!

"The workers suffer because they never defend each other.  They're scared of what the managers will do."

Where there is corruption there is fear.  Where there is fear there is more corruption.  How much do we tolerate and what do we want put in place?

Further reading here and here.

Coming Up..

Booking essential

The Geometrics Ends Tomorrow: Have You Been Part of It?

Learn Geometric Machine Knitting this Thursday LIVE ONLINE from your Computer!

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Join us online - like TV - or come along to the Slow Studio gallery space at KINGSGATE GALLERY,  London NW6 2JG. 

Opportunity of a Lifetime!

Among many wonderful and inspiring papers being presented on Saturday 27th April from 2-8pm at The Geometrics Exhibition & Symposium is Alexandra Gerstein's paper The Free Geometry of Omega Workshops Textiles, 1913-1919.

Book here and see you there! 

New Social Textiles - Interpsychic Effects Made Visible!

Interpsychic,

167cm x 124cm

Silk, cottton, polyester, wood, 2013,

Peclard, Neuberg.

The Slow Textiles Group is delighted to announce the start of the first interpsychic, participatory textile design ever created. It began in situ at Kingsate Gallery London on 19th April at The Geometrics Opening Event!

Conceived by Geraldine Peclard and Dr Emma Neuberg it introduces group analytic language to textile design practice.

Come see the piece underway and make your own mark on Saturday 27th April 2013 at THE GEOMETRICS SYMPOSIUM.

Further details here!

THE GEOMETRICS Exhibition Opens 19th April 2013 at 6pm in London!

Html Patchwork designed and curated by Ele Carpenter, animated here by Emma Neuberg. Click it to own it!

Which Hexidecimal Colour and Code is Correct?


Calling all Maths and Computer Science teachers - don't miss a design show that embraces mathematics from hexidecimal number arrangements to computerised laser jet systems all in the name of fashion and textiles!!


This is The Geometrics Volume 1 Exhibition: Textiles, New Media, New Work!

Join us for the Private View or one of the many exciting events listed here. There will be a book launch to go with the show too on May 4th 2013!

The artists and design thinkers exhibiting in this exciting new show bring open source systems to textile design that embrace maths, geometry and creative, decorative and stunning cultural interpretations of these! We look forward to welcoming you soon!

In Celebration of the First STG Exhibition Slow Textiles Group Members Soon be Able to Access Unique Research & Inspiration Pages!

In celebration of the first STG exhibition THE GEOMETRICS, Slow Textiles Group members will soon be able to access unique Research & Inspiration pages filled with theoretical references and links to enrich the learning, creating and teaching experience.

This will be a fabulous new resource to make personal and professional creative life easy and adjoin the two where relevant.

All the featured references tie in with new knowledge connectivity, research links and routes to greater insight, understanding and expertise.  Check out what other benefits come to members here!

Courtauld Gallery Curator Alexandra Gerstein Presents 'The Free Geometry of Omega Workshops Textiles 1913-1919' Paper to the Slow Textiles Group on April 27th!

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You're invited to 
THE GEOMETRICS SYMPOSIUM 
(code W30):  Tickets from just £15!

Slow Design School Celebrates an Exciting First Year!

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The Slow Design School has had an amazing first year!  The breadth and depth of work undertaken is exemplary with funding applications, publication and PhD candidacy now underway.  Watch this space for details of our exciting graduate projects from Zoe Burt's Grow Your Own Fashion to Sarah Marais's Making & Flourishing:  Crafts Practice as a Means of Building Community Assets, Health & Well-being.

If you're ready to extend your creative roots into UK and EU soil then this is the place.  Equally, if you're a teacher looking for inspiration and new knowledge then you've come to the right place.  We take your practice to another level of value, complexity and sophistication.

Details of Slow Design School enrolment for Spring 2014 here.

Are you one?

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The Geometrics' Diamond Patchwork Workshop!

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Pop Art Geo by The People's Print.  (available July 2013)

The New Design Assignment

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The People's Print, DIY Couture and BeFabBeCreative Collaborate with You!

The People's Print amazing FREE downloadable tutorial available here.

STG members and associates at the amazing and totally original DIY Couture and the trailblazing create-open-source-digital-textiles-like-no-other platform The People's Print are giving YOU the opportunity to design the fabrics for the DIY Couture SS13 Collection!

Not only is this a great design opportunity but with all the contacts between DIY Couture+The People's Print (and the Great British digital printers BeFabBeCreative), if you win, who knows where you might go!

All you need is collage papers, scissors, a mobile phone and your FREE trial copy of Adobe Photoshop (if you don't have Photoshop already) and in Ten Easy Steps you'll learn how to create a stunning repeat pattern.

For full details go here.

The People's Print FREE downloadable tutorial available here!

What are the implications of craft and neurological affect for 2113?

What are the implications of craft and neurological affect for 2113?

This  Saturday's STG seminar theme for Research, Skills Development and Discussion all focussed on textiles. 

Details and booking   here.

TSTG Members Ready for Christopher Kane AW2013!

Congratulations TSTG members and associates who attended Saturday's workshop and learnt how to create Christopher Kane's catwalk look for Autumn/Fall/Winter 2013 with elaborate couture couching, among several other Couture Embellishment Techniques.

As always, we're ahead of the game with our portfolio of Skills Development Training and uber-talented members and tutors! Our next date for open access Skills Development Training is August 3rd 2013 for stunning  Mountmellick Embroidery with Zoe Powell.  Book early to avoid disappointment!  

Our Paris and London trained tutors don't grow on trees!

Learn Amazing Couture Embellishment Techniques on Feb 16th with TSTG!

Image courtesy of Poszata Ltd, Hungary.

Learn how to make Richelieu lace tomorrow with Paris couture embroiderer, Eline Le Callennec and the Slow Textiles Group! This workshop is available both online and in the London studio.

Just two places left! Book your place here.

 White on white. Traditional French Richelieu lace in white linen. 
Image courtesy of Passion de Blanc, France.

SURFACE Show at Chelsea FutureSpace

Rose, silk, detail, Emma Neuberg, 2012.

We're delighted to announce that silk triptychs created by TSTG founder, Emma Neuberg, whilst Artist in Residence (AA2A) at Chelsea College of Art & Design, London, are selected for an exciting new exhibition exploring surface, texture, semiotics and meaning taking place February 13th to April 14th 2013 at Chelsea FutureSpace. 

The show represents an introduction to the study of surface as texture and skin to interpret and express the liminal space between internal and external worlds.  Other artists in the show include Sanghyun Kim and Kangwook Lee. 

Awake, Sanghyun Kim, 2012.

Kangwook Lee, 2012.

Pua Kumba Weaving in Marik Empang!

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TSTG members recently enjoyed an evening with Nancy Ngali from Malaysian Borneo, wearing her own pua kumba woven jacket and beaded marik empang at the fantastic current exhibition called 

Endangered Textiles taking place at the Brunei Gallery in London.

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Here's the process of the warp preparation - hundreds of white silk threads being tied with lengths of plastic rather like tie-dye - in order to prepare the weave to make a jacket or skirt.

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After all those white threads are dip-dyed in indigo they are set up on a back-strap loom ready for weaving. 

The whole process takes between 3 to 5 months!

For more information on the process, there's a great introductory article in the wonderful Hand Eye magazine.

What do Pattern, Textiles and Fashion have in Common in 2013?

Quentin Jones for Kenzo Pre-Fall 2012

You may have noticed that TSTG embrace animation and film narratives for textiles!

This is because textiles manifest time and story-telling in their very DNA.  Even digital code is textiles inasmuchas each pixel echoes the needlepoint stitch or punchcard hole in order to make the image whole.

Last year we showcased amazing textile animator Tania Grace Knuckey's witty, subtle and evocative textile animations at the Slow Studio Cinema. "I have to put timelines into textiles to bring them alive," she says.

Have a look through Quentin Jones amazing sequences and visit the Slow Studio on April 20th to see more of this inspirational genre!

Quentin Jones for Victoria Beckham 2012

Quentin Jones for Nowness 2012

Quentin Jones for Penhaligon 2012

Quentin Jones for Holly Fulton 2012