Fast Fashion Impacts and Timeless Textiles in One Afternoon!

Our next ground-breaking lecture combines an overview of the negative environmental impacts of fast fashion coupled with a timeless couture sewing class from Alexander McQueen and Mary Katrantzou embroiderer, Eline Le Callennec; plus, much more in the way of sustainable textile design methodologies, analysis and discussion!

Takes place in Slow Studio on December 1st at 2pm. Go to  WOW Events  for details or FAST TRACK BOOKING!

Eline Le Callennec.

Slow Design School Open Day This Saturday!

YOU are invited to the Slow Design School Open Day this Saturday at 3pm in
West Hampstead, London, United Kingdom!

If you're not in the United Kingdom, just ask for a login link and we'll send you a recording
of the event!

Meet like-minded people, learn new things, develop your practice, get access to the theoretical framework of sustainable design, ideate, collaborate, exhibit and get funding through the Slow Studio platform!

Send an email with Open Day as the subject to guarantee your place!

A Slow Studio Ideation Day, 2011!

The Slow Textiles Group Print Room Cinema Tania Grace Knuckey Premiere!

TSTG just had a wonderful Textiles Talk from award-winning textiles animator, Tania Knuckey, 

in the Slow Studio's Print Room Cinema!

Tania's vision is to bring dynamism to textiles through film-making and animation.

This a small snippet of one of her many amazing textile films being screened at the Slow Studio Cinema yesterday! This was the first public 'cinema' viewing of her film collection and it was sensational!

The next Slow Studio Cinema showing is Dec 1st where you can see a collection of Textiles in Fast Fashion movies! Come, SEE!

Co-created Virtual Patchwork by TSTG!

The Slow Textiles Group spent a great weekend inspired by Liberty's of London quilt-maker, Katherine May teaching hands-on fabric geometrics.

Then, following TSTG director, Emma Neuberg's instruction in how to convert these into digital animations, members of the Slow Textiles Group worked together on the first ever co-created virtual digital patchwork! 

Kate, Geraldine, Katie, Christina, Pennina, Manda, Red, Veronica, Emma, Susana and Tania thought they'd share this first incarnation of it with you here! This represents the first international virtual 'patchwork' animated and created internationally in an afternoon by top textile designers!

The workshop concluded with a series of textile animator, Tania Grace Knuckey's extraordinary, poetic, evocative and stunning textile animations in the Print Room Cinema! Much excitement, dialogue and future thinking was set in motion in anticipation of TSTG Geometrics Season: Symposium, Exhibition and Catalogue 2013!

The Slow Textiles Group and Vince Cable's March of the Makers Coming to You Soon!

The Slow Textiles Group spent a wonderful day today with Paul Smith, Margaret Howell, Brooks Brothers, Members of Parliament and the City of London livery companies and many other wonderful textiles professionals to help in the upswell of the Made in Britain campaign. Who says we don't have fantastic weavers, knitters, embroiderers, pattern cutters and printers right here! Vision, skill, passion unite!

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!

Slow Textiles Group UK and Australia Artisans!

Lisa Bloomer, woven silk and British wool undulating scarlet geometrics for interiors, UK made.

The Slow Textiles Group are delighted to present a growing collection of their members united in an obsession with geometrics!

Bridget Harvey, recycled wood accessories, UK made. 

Geraldine Peclard, poetic organic cottons, UK made.

Joanna Fowles, harmonious colour collections, Australia/UK made.

Tanvi Kant, recycled silver trimmings, UK sourced and made.

Melanie Bowles, socially designed textiles with group copyright, UK made.