The beginnings of our trad/tech textile conjuncture

Japanese textile motif,

animated print,

Emma Neuberg, 2011.

Plus ça change

Summer Sales,
digital surface pattern inspired by Horace Taylor's 1926 poster,
Emma Neuberg, 2011.





Horace Taylor, 

The Electric Railway Company,
London, 1926


This is British designer, Horace Taylor's poster (animated by Emma Neuberg) encouraging women in the suburbs to get into town via the London Underground and "buy British"!

Taking a closer look at the ladies' hats (especially the one on the far right), and the designs on sale, they pre-date Nathalie du Pasquier's postmodern designs for Memphis by fifty years. (Not to mention nu rave).


Here they have been rearranged to create a digital narrative with history and humour. The experiments continue..



Summer Sales Circle,
digital surface pattern inspired by Horace Taylor's 1926 poster,
Emma Neuberg, 2011

Slow/Fast Experiments

Pastel and digital prints animated, 

Emma Neuberg, 2011.

Experiment 1: Slow Hues,
Pastel and digital print animated, 
Emma Neuberg, 2011.

Over the next few weeks, we are experimenting at the juncture where slow, traditional, hand processes meet fast digitised ones to stimulate dialogue on surface pattern and new hybrid forms. 


The aim, loosely, is to combine old with new, tradition with technology, in ways that offer new creative textile possibilities and textured digital forms.





Experiment 2: Slow Lace Hues,
Pastel and digital print animated, Emma Neuberg, 2011.




To see more examples of Emma's digital sketchbook go to
http://www.emmaneuberg.blogspot.com/

A British Floral Print Moment

Mary Katrantzou, 2011.

Mary Katrantzou, 2011.

Mary Katrantzou, 2011.

Mary Katrantzou, 2011.

Mary Katrantzou, 2011.

Holly Fowler, 2011.

We're having a flora and fauna escapist day celebrating some of the wondrous digital prints coming from British designers in 2011.

Building upon a tradition of floral regalia, all these Central Saint Martins' graduates are breaking new ground not only taking the genre to new heights but transforming the silhouette.

Holly Fowler, 2011.

Holly Fowler, 2011.

Mary Katrantzou, 2011.

Mary Katrantzou, 2011.

Mary Katrantzou, 2011.

Stella McCartney, resort 2011.

Stella McCartney, resort 2011.

Stella McCartney, resort 2011.

Stella McCartney, resort 2011.

Stella McCartney, resort 2011.

Postmodernism (Digital) Style and Subversion

Jean-Paul Goude styles Grace Jones, front over of PHOTO, France, c.1981.

Slow Textiles and Make It Digital join forces to create 
The People's Print
and we aredelighted to announce that as such we will be attending the Postmodernism ball in celebration of our latest textile design course at the V&A, London.

Electronic Fabric Experiments

Here at Slow Textiles we are experimenting with electronic fabric samples. 
It's playtime at the moment!

What Are You Making?

At the Slow Textiles group we believe in making conscious.

This is why we craft media. 

You can make for 5 years as an 'emerging talent' design graduate; 

you can make for 10 years if you find the space and money;

you can make for 20 years if your vision has roots; 

you can make for a lifetime if you need it to live. 

This is where making conscious comes in. 

How deep is your conscious? How far can you see? 

How much further do you need to see? 

How much further do you want to see?

It is this focal length that keeps the Slow Textiles group making.

If you're interested to learn more,

please join us for a FREE workshop at the 

Slow Design School, London, 4:30pm on November 12th 2011. 

Click red circle 'Slow Design School', top right, to attend.