Selvedge #133
238 x 238 mm, 96 pages
London, UK
Bimonthly
Founder and editor: Polly Leonard
‘The fabric of your life’
Selvedge celebrates textiles and cloth from historical and contemporary standpoints, with a practical and inspirational edge too.
This latest edition looks at how craft is changing in response to modern challenges like AI, suggesting that textile matter is ‘memory made tactile, patience thought touch, and perhaps one of the last technologies that requires us to be fully present with one another.’ It also considers where our earliest bond with fabric begins, and how family conversations so often gather around sewing textiles. Inside, readers will find a short history of higher education in textile design, ten ways to braid, an insight into the natural dyeing techniques behind the latest screen adaptation of ‘Sense and Sensibility’, and the political tapestry of Chilean textile artist and designer Mónica Undurraga.
Plus, the issue celebrates the folk art of Cathy Snelling, including ‘Fantastic Mr Fox’, alongside the craft of Valencian embroiderers.