The Geometrics' Diamond Patchwork Workshop!

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

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!

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!

Happy New Geometrics Year!

Jonathan Saunders Animated, Emma Neuberg, 2012

Thank you for sharing a wonderful year and we look forward to more inspirational, ground-breaking and fun events in 2013!

Learn Alexander McQueen Embellishment Techniques with The Slow Textiles Group on Dec 1st at 2pm!

Eline Le Callennec embellishment for Alexander McQueen, Spring/Summer 2010.

Learn couture embellishment techniques with Alexander McQueen and Mary Katrantzou's embroiderer Eline Le Callennec at TSTG's new, amazing venue, London Printworks Trust, on Dec 1st from 2pm til 6pm with a lecture on Sustainability and Unsustainability in the Fashion System!   

Join in online or in person, book here!

Eline Le Callennec embellishment for Alexander McQueen, Spring/Summer 2012.

Eline Le Callennec embellishment for Mary Katrantzou, Spring/Summer 2012.

It's time to add the slow touch to your fast prints!

Learn Mary Katrantzou Embellishment Techniques with The Slow Textiles Group on Dec 1st!

Eline Le Callennec embellishment for Mary Katrantzou, Spring/Summer 2012.

Learn with Mary Katrantzou's embroiderer at the Slow Studio on Dec 1st from 2pm til 6pm with a lecture and Textiles Talk too! All materials included!  Bookings here!

It's time to add the slow hand touch to your fast prints!

Learn to print silk and exhibit with the Slow Textiles Group in 2012!!

Silk print designed by Maria Genco, 2011.

Silk print designed by Pamela Schwartz, 2011.

These examples were created by the Born To Be Wild Group, a co-design group especially set up with the V&A Design & Interpretation Division and Slow Textiles Group members' company, The People Print!

Book yourself a place on any of our afternoon HANDS-ON WORKSHOPS (for example, Organic Geometrics (code W25), 1920s Parisian Pochoir Designs (code W26) or Pop Art Geometrics (code W27)) and learn how to print your own silk (from just £40)!

Wishing You a Merry Christmas!!

This Postmodernism at the V&A print is especially co-designed by Hatice Burgess, Pamela Schwartz and Emma Neuberg, members of the The People's Print's Born To Be Wild design group (the first co-design social textiles group) and experimenters in the future meaning, role and identity of textiles!

Traditional Painting Processes Converge With Open Source Fashion!

Ideas of story-telling and narrative in future couture clothing. A co-design melange by Susana and Emma.

Susana Fernandez, who worked recently with traditional carpet manufacturers, Real Fabrica de Tapices, in Madrid, paints her Cubo-Futurist painting inspired by artists such as Baranov-Rossine, Lyubov Popova and Natalia Goncharova and begins a process of transformation for the painting to be applied to Maison Martin Margiela's open source dress pattern.

Some of the Slow Textiles Group Margiela dresses will be made in silk! Watch this space!

Plus ça change

Summer Sales,
digital surface pattern inspired by Horace Taylor's 1926 poster,
Emma Neuberg, 2011.





Horace Taylor, 

The Electric Railway Company,
London, 1926


This is British designer, Horace Taylor's poster (animated by Emma Neuberg) encouraging women in the suburbs to get into town via the London Underground and "buy British"!

Taking a closer look at the ladies' hats (especially the one on the far right), and the designs on sale, they pre-date Nathalie du Pasquier's postmodern designs for Memphis by fifty years. (Not to mention nu rave).


Here they have been rearranged to create a digital narrative with history and humour. The experiments continue..



Summer Sales Circle,
digital surface pattern inspired by Horace Taylor's 1926 poster,
Emma Neuberg, 2011

Flash View! New Work for Animated Textiles

Repetitive Triangles II,
Emma Neuberg, 
animated silkscreen print and plastic on paper, 
2011.


Emma Neuberg develops ideas for the next Slow Textiles workshop (taking place at the V&A in September and October). These mark an experimental phase inspired by bringing Italian design house, Memphis, into the digital age.


The initial objective is to bring slow hand processes together with digital crafting for online dissemination and 'new' meaning.


Repetitive Triangles II builds upon old textile 're-animations' that Emma created during the V&A Quilts exhibition last year:

Inheritance I,

Emma Neuberg, 

re-animated rayon, 

2010.