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!

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.