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!

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!

                                                                                                            Photo: Neuberg

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.

                                                                                                                                                                                             Photo: Neuberg

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.

                                                                                                                                                 Photo: Neuberg

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.

Slow Textiles Group at Ethical Fashion Forum Source Expo Today!

We SO enjoyed the EFF Source Expo today! There was such an array of fantastic suppliers and producers being showcased - from all over the world! 

Our very own member, Lisa Bloomer, was one of the only British wool weavers represented from the UK.  Design and sustainability are so central to her work and future vision that the result is a cutting edge product that offers an aesthetic sensibility that far surpasses the more rural weaves largely presented today. 

Technique, aesthetic and sustainable methodologies are central to Lisa's innovation hence she won the Althea McNish Prize for Colour, Royal College of Art 2012 and the Great British Texprint 2012 award as well as being shortlisted for the new Sustain Award at the Royal College of Art 2012. Watch this space!

In Great Britain we have the designers, the heritage and the skills - we say, let's use them! 

Designers, this is your platform!

In fact, Lisa is now featured on the front cover of the EFF Source Magazine 

Trend Report: Wool and Heavyweight Fabrics:

Other highlights of the day include,

If you'd like to work with us to develop your design work and aesthetic collections, content and development for a western and eastern market,  just email us via the Contact Page!

The Ethical Fashion Forum website has the full supplier list of today's SOURCE Expo (Day 1) - there are too many to cite here!

Amazing Co-creation Workshop With Emma Neuberg, Katherine May and Tania Grace Knuckey on Nov 3rd!

Totem Blends, Emma Neuberg, 2012

Triangulated Patchwork, Katherine May, 2010.

Frame Sequence, Tania Grace Knuckey, 2012.

An amazing creative conversation opens up with the Slow Textiles Group on November 3rd at 2pm in the Slow Studio, West Hampstead, London, and internationally, online. 

The afternoon offers you a hands-on workshop where you'll learn to combine patchwork making with digital animation and film for a new kind of connected conversation whilst hearing the artists speak.

Booking details here. Places flying!

Slow Textiles is Delighted to Announce the Launch of their Geometric Season!

Slow Textiles manipulate the lovely David Saunders' knitwear: d a v i d d a v i d

We are delighted to announce that over the next few months we are running a collective research project incorporating several Slow Textiles Group members dedicated to an exploration of the geometric form in textiles.

All our workshops, including those on May 19th, July 14th and November 3rd 2012 are dedicated to the theme as well as our exciting first group shows. 

Papers, essays and short films are also being produced on the subject, so watch this space or join us to get involved.

What do geometrics mean to you?