Gordon, Walker and Christian: Thoughts on Scholarship
Beverly Gordon: Textiles: The Whole Story: Uses, Meanings, and Significance; Gina Luria Walker: Women’s History: Galvanizing Marginality...
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Victoria Manganiello
- Sep 1, 2021
- 3 min
Craft and Wikipedia
The similarities between the production of textiles (and craft at large) with the production of Wikipedia are uncanny! Weaver, writer and...
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Nicole Yi Messier
- Sep 1, 2021
- 5 min
Swatchbooks as Prototyping Archive
Originally posted on Creative Stack: Episode 4: Forms Hook Functions When I explain to people that I’m using a knitting machine, they...
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Taryn Hilsman
- Aug 9, 2021
- 11 min
Crafts and COVID-19: How Sewing Masks Affected Women Around the World
As a textile artist and someone who spent most of the past year working at a fabric and craft store, I was very fascinated by the way...
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Iris Favand
- Jul 12, 2021
- 6 min
19th Century Department Stores : Between Women’s Emancipation and Consumerism
“All these ladies had evidently put her down as an applicant for the vacancy, and they were taking stock of her, undressing her with...
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Giovanna Pedrinola
- Jul 12, 2021
- 3 min
Linen: From Past to Present
For a long time, linen has been considered an expensive and luxurious fabric in many different cultures around the world. As one of the...
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Victoria Manganiello
- Jun 30, 2021
- 3 min
Craft Equity
Craft organizations, universities, and businesses are ripe with inequities, appropriation, and oppression and in producing Woman...
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Victoria Manganiello
- Jun 23, 2021
- 2 min
Spiders Weaving Silk
Spider silk is awesome because of its strength. Darwin's Bark Spiders from Madagascar and Golden Orb Spiders of Australia make silk 10x...
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Iris Favand
- Jun 15, 2021
- 4 min
Dava Newman & NASA's "Second Skin" Spacesuits
When the first all women spacewalk was cancelled in 2019 due to the spacesuits not fitting them correctly, a problem was highlighted: for...
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Giovanna Pedrinola
- Jun 15, 2021
- 4 min
Janet Echelman: Making the Ephemeral Eternal
Sculpture, Architecture, Urban Design, Material Science, Structural & Aeronautical Engineering, and Computer Science (1) all play a part...
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Giovanna Pedrinola
- May 27, 2021
- 3 min
Zaha Hadid and the KnitCandela Project
“I have always appreciated those who dare to experiment with materials and proportions.” – Zaha Hadid. It was definitely from fearless...
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Iris Favand
- May 20, 2021
- 4 min
The Social Justice Sewing Academy : Blending Art and Education to Tackle the Inequalities
The story of the Social Justice Sewing Academy started in 2017 when Sara Trail quilted a piece in memory of Trayvon Martin, a 17-year-old...
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Iris Favand
- May 11, 2021
- 2 min
Clear Fashion - The Women-Led app that may Finally Bring Transparency into the Fashion Industry
Awareness around the origin of our food has risen over years, and it is now rather easy to gauge the quality of the products we consume....
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Iris Favand
- May 3, 2021
- 5 min
From Chemically Intensive to Organic Cotton
In 1960, the Aral Sea was the 4th largest lake in the world and represented about twice the size of Belgium. Since then, it has shrunk so...
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Iris Favand
- May 3, 2021
- 4 min
Tauba Auerbach - Beyond The Perceptible
“I’m interested in textile and graphic design, but I’m not trying to do design myself. I’m trying to make things that help me (and...
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Iris Favand
- Apr 19, 2021
- 3 min
The History of Sheep and Wool: 13 Facts
Racka sheep (Hungarian breed) 1. Sheeps probably descend from the wild mouflon. 2. Sheeps reproduce quickly : they reach sexual maturity...
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Iris Favand
- Apr 12, 2021
- 5 min
Exploitation Made In Europe
Forced labor, underpaid wages, factories collapsing... This was enough for Chinese, Indian or Bangladesh factories to acquire a...
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Victoria Manganiello
- Apr 5, 2021
- 1 min
Charlotte Perriand: The Woman behind Le Corbusier
The designer in 1934. Credit...Archives Charlotte Perriand 2013 Le Corbusier “[doesn’t] embroider cushions” and that’s why he didn’t hire...
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Iris Favand
- Apr 5, 2021
- 2 min
Human Yarn
When Textile Meets Biology Human textile. This was the mysterious name of a research conducted last year at the University of...
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Rose White
- Mar 29, 2021
- 2 min
Make Your Own Loom
Take a second and look at what you are wearing. If you look closely you can see the individual yarns that are likely woven together to...
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