Ealing’s impossible dream of the cloth that lasts forever
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All articles filed in textile history
lady in a green dress
the shifting fortunes of a changeable colour
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Magenta matters
the shade that soaks up meaning
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The colours of Norwegian knitting
Eli Leistad introduces us to colourful combinations, old and new
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Smookie
a hand-knitted smock for autumn
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All dressed in yellow
how our attitudes to colour are bound up with the stories we tell ourselves
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Marina Moskowitz
an inspiring conversation about everyday stuff and big ideas
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sock of the week no. 11
fashion, innovation and stripey socks
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sock of the week: no.10
the “everlasting stocking knitters” of Wales
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sock of the week no.7
what might a pair of seventeenth-century stockings say about the body that once wore them?
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sock of the week no. 6: clocks and socks
an image connecting the histories of eighteenth-century intimate apparel, government taxation, and the democratisation of timekeeping
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sock of the week no.5: Jacobite garters
Stockings which concealed the political message of a lost eighteenth-century cause.
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sock of the week no.2
Eighteenth-century stockings in miniature
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sock of the week no.1
Philippe Mercier’s popular portrait of an eighteenth-century stocking knitter
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the fabric of memory
Do you dream in textiles?
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on the uses of handwoven tapes and bands
I really enjoyed reading your comments on my last weaving post – especially hearing about the impressively wide range of new skills you are all currently picking up! I’m continuing to enjoy my weaving, and am finding it very inspiring. It really interests me that one of the first things many people think of when…
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