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.

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.

What do Pattern, Textiles and Fashion have in Common in 2013?

Quentin Jones for Kenzo Pre-Fall 2012

You may have noticed that TSTG embrace animation and film narratives for textiles!

This is because textiles manifest time and story-telling in their very DNA.  Even digital code is textiles inasmuchas each pixel echoes the needlepoint stitch or punchcard hole in order to make the image whole.

Last year we showcased amazing textile animator Tania Grace Knuckey's witty, subtle and evocative textile animations at the Slow Studio Cinema. "I have to put timelines into textiles to bring them alive," she says.

Have a look through Quentin Jones amazing sequences and visit the Slow Studio on April 20th to see more of this inspirational genre!

Quentin Jones for Victoria Beckham 2012

Quentin Jones for Nowness 2012

Quentin Jones for Penhaligon 2012

Quentin Jones for Holly Fulton 2012