Molly Fitzpatrick is a textile designer and founder of DittoHouse, an Ohio-based home textile brand for ethically produced textiles. Having designed textiles for a wide variety of markets, including ...
As Audaces, a technology leader in fashion innovation, explains, “The art of producing prints is millenary and, like most textile processes, has evolved alongside the industry’s technological and ...
Circular design guidelines and the growing demand for technical fabrics have placed a greater emphasis on textiles in recent years. Fiber manufactures and textile mills have adopted consumer-focused ...
In the UC Davis Design Museum’s current exhibition, Appreciation and Adaptation: Homage to Global Textiles, traditional textiles from around the world are displayed alongside textiles created by ...
A fellow designer once told Elizabeth Whelan that Americans buy 45 pieces of clothing a year. That's a lot, she says, and it's prompted by the many fashion houses that buy fabrics from Asia at a low ...
For a certain cadre of elite architects and decorators, even the finest textiles in production are not good enough. They need something bespoke, a fabric imagined and then woven exclusively for the ...
"Our world is changing and textile designers are ideally equipped to face the challenges. With colour, pattern, functionality and sensuality as our guide, we constantly reinvent the realm of fibres, ...
For centuries, Japanese farmers repaired worn clothing using a handsewing technique known as sashiko, with textile surfaces punctuated by rain-like patterns of countless single stitches. This practice ...
Young designers are often told to carve out a specific niche, but Helena Bajaj-Larsen’s background is too wide and her ambition too large to be hemmed in by conventional wisdom. The 24-year-old ...