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.

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.

Working in Groups:

Kuna women doing their applique, 2004.

Slow Textiles not only generate timeless artefacts but they expand time.

Engaged in the contained, communal process, time stops and all that is slow flows in.