Open the dressing-up box and choose a Pop Out Crown inspired by historical designs. @theshopfloor Pop Out Crowns are quickly assembled and ready to wear. They are designed and painted in-house at The Shop Floor Project in Cumbria, then carefully printed in England with carbon-balanced printers who work with the World Land Trust to ensure these eco-credentials.
STRAIGHT LACED
Lace making techniques around the world
A lace may be defined simply as a cloth constructed with holes, created by twisting, braiding, knotting, or knitting fine threads together. Categorised by technique – featuring tape and braid, bobbin, and needlepoint laces – this guide may not be exhaustive, but it will equip you with a discerning eye to appreciate the subtle differences of each lace technique.
@cris_tamay created this illustration for this article, and we can see his creative process in this video.
Read the entire article on Selvedge issue 122, Winter White. https://www.selvedge.org/products/issue-122-winter-white
2024: A Remarkable Year
Thank you to all of our readers who supported our work during 2024
600 published pages in six beautiful issues.
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15 Workshops.
3 new team members.
2 Selvedge Fairs.
1 Tour of India.
Many, many new artisan partners and friends.
TODAY IS THE DAY
Join us at the Selvedge Winter Fair—we're excited to see you there!
The team behind the cult magazine Selvedge brings a curated collection of eighty-five merchants and makers to St Mary’s. Our exhibitors sell a range of rare vintage fabrics,
covetable haberdashery, and skillfully handmade textile treasures. Now in its 14th year, this annual fair offers the perfect opportunity to meet the makers, catch up with old friends, and pick up that special something for the holidays.
The church is a ten-minute walk from Marylebone train station, Baker Street, and Edgeware Road underground stations.
The Fair will occur on 30 November 2024 at St Mary's Church, Wyndham Place, York St, London, W1H 1PQ.
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The Selvedge Winter Fair 2024
Saturday 30 November, 11-5 pm | St Mary's Marylebone London
The Selvedge team brings a curated collection of 90 merchants and makers to Marylebone. Our exhibitors offer a range of rare vintage fabrics, covetable haberdashery, and skilfully handmade textile treasures. The Selvedge Fair is the perfect opportunity to seek out unique handcrafted gifts and meet the talented people who create them.
Book your ticket!
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SELVEDGE WINTER FAIR WORKSHOPS
Come to the Selvedge Winter Fair and Participate in our Workshops.
Saturday 30 November 2024, In-person
St Mary's Church, Wyndham Place, York St, London, W1H 1PQ
-Wreath Making Workshop with Studio Dandelion 11:00 - 13:00 GMT
In this wintery workshop, you will create a full and spectacular wreath to adorn your door throughout the final months of the year.
This is a space for individual and collective creativity. Over two hours, you will be guided in designing and decorating a sustainably sourced moss and wired wreath base with sumptuous pines, seasonal foliage, gestural dried branches, delightful dried botanicals, and rich velvet ribbons.
-Mini Pająki Workshop with Karolina Merska 14:00 - 16:00 GMT
Join a unique workshop with Karolina Merska. Inspired by traditional Polish Christmas ornaments, Karolina will teach you how to make a Mini Pająki decoration using rye straw, various beads and ribbons.
-Straw Star Workshop with Ruby Taylor of Native Hands 14:00 - 16:00 GMT
Make a large, folk art-inspired star from the English Rush. These beauties are big enough to hang on your door as a gorgeous alternative to a wreath. They’re also perfect as a wall decoration if you prefer.
For more details, please check https://www.selvedge.org/collections/selvedge-winter-fair-2024-workshops
Save the date: The Selvedge Winter Fair 2024
Saturday 30 November, 11-5 pm | St Mary's Marylebone London
The Selvedge team brings a curated collection of 90 merchants and makers to Marylebone. Our exhibitors offer a range of rare vintage fabrics, covetable haberdashery, and skilfully handmade textile treasures. The Selvedge Fair is the perfect opportunity to seek out unique handcrafted gifts and meet the talented people who create them.
St. Mary's was built in 1823–1824 by architect Robert Smirke. It is a Grade I listed church with distinctive architectural features, including a rounded stone portico and a cross-topped dome.
Book your ticket!
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#christmasiscomming #winterfair #selvedgewinterfair #textil #handmade #textiletreasures
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Selvedge issue 120, Magic Carpet.
Solomon’s carpet was reportedly made of green silk with a golden weft, 60 miles long and 60 miles wide. According to the Jewish fable, “when Solomon sat upon the carpet, he was caught up by the wind, and sailed through the air so quickly that he breakfasted at Damascus and supped in Media.” The term magic carpet is believed to have its roots in Persian and Arabian folklore, particularly in the collection of stories known as One Thousand and One Nights. These tales, compiled during the Islamic Golden Age, introduced the concept of a carpet that possessed magical powers to defy the laws of gravity and transport individuals to distant lands, evoking a sense of wonder, freedom, and exploration. Similar mystical carpets exist in Indian, Russian, Tibetan, and Chinese folklore. Their presence invites us to ask: What’s so special about carpets that they have been given magical powers?
The carpet responds to the fundamental human need of enclosure, defining and giving form to living space. It serves as protection against the limitless scales of space and time. It is both a house and temple, a place of shelter and leisure, and a place for prayer. The frame of the carpet cuts and delineates a portion of infinite space, devoting it to human existence, as is demonstrated in primary school classrooms up and down the country. Carpet time is a space where unity, respect for one another, turn-taking and working together towards a shared goal are encouraged.
As Ginger Gregg Duggan and Judith Hoos Fox, co-editors of this issue, state in their article “Breaking New Ground,” “it is because the carpet is an object of daily use throughout cultures and across societal stratifications [...] that it offers an entry point for artists’ manipulations, reinterpretations, and new creations. It provides the context to merge past with present, serious history with pop culture, and stereotypically Eastern and Western ideologies.”
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On 18 September 2021, Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s public artwork L’Arc de Triomphe, Wrapped, 1961–2021 was unveiled in Paris. Over 16 days, the Place de l’Étoile was closed to traffic, allowing six million people to visit the L’Arc de Triomphe and see this work of art. Two years later, the Christo and Jeanne-Claude Foundation are now collaborating with Parley for the Oceans, a global environmental organisation (whose primary focus is on reducing plastic in the ocean), for the final phase of this project – repurposing the materials to make shade structures and tents for the 2024 Olympics and Paralympic Games, to be held in Paris this summer. “A constant commitment of Christo and Jeanne-Claude was to reuse, upcycle, and recycle all materials used in their projects,” said Vladimir Yavachev, project director of L’Arc de Triomphe, Wrapped. All of the
Image: Christo Arc de Triomphe.
materials used to create public artwork are being reused. The 25,000 square meters of silvery blue polypropylene fabric and 3,000 m of red polypropylene rope have been processed by Parley for the Oceans and are being redesigned to create the tents and shade structures. While the non-textile materials, the wood and steel that were used for the project’s substructures, have already been repurposed by Les Charpentiers de Paris, Arcelor Mittal, and Derichebourg Environnement for projects in Paris or will be recycled by the supplier. Adapting to the challenges of rising temperatures, the tent structures are designed to protect human life against the dangerous heat waves that Paris now experiences in the summer months. “This is a very fine example of the art world’s ability to adapt to climate challenges,” Yavachev says. christojeanneclaude.net/parley.tv/
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Read the complete News Section on Selvedge issue 119 Savoir Faire.
The link is provided in our bio.
Image courtesy: Christo Arc de Triomphe
