Openwear is a collaborative clothing project exploring new and alternative models for fashion that promote open design and peer to peer production. Through collective action, shared practice and...
Future Everything: Handmades Digital |DIY | Craft FairCome down to Victoria Baths on Saturday 14th May to join crafters, hackers and makers from all over the country, as they showcase their work and ...
This Saturday the Shared Scarf Project will be running some DIY fashion workshops in collaboration with DESIGNERS|MAKERS Market Place. This interactive market stall will enable participants...
DESIGNERS / MAKERS is a new platform to promote contemporary design and craft in the UK, by creating opportunities for exchange and interaction that benefit a wide constituency of design and cra...
This is my current reading... it arrived on Saturday and have been working my way through it. Everyone knows that making things, in real life or online, can be a pleasant activity. But Da...
Thinking / ConceptsMaking by hand & digitallyYesterdays co-design workshop explored the concept of collaborative consumption through the theme: fashion personified. Instead of hitting the high st...
The Scarf Project: Think | Make | Style | ShareThis interactive workshop offers an opportunity to engage in an alternative fashion experience by enabling participants to think and make for themselves...
Mark Making / ExperimentationThinking / Concept GenerationThe Scarf Project has launched with its first co-design workshop - Experimental Mark Making. This four hour workshop session explored lo...
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So, the pilot project has ended and I would like to send a really big thank you to all of the textile design students and graduates who participated! The aim of the pilot was to explore new ways of w...
Inspiration ImagesFollowing the project launch - all participants uploaded / emailed some inspiration images. These images printed and ready for the co-design workshop.
Salvaged pieces of wood, cut and sanded, with holes ready for fastenings...
Such a happy outfit!
A beautiful ethnic looking tablecloth found in a vintage shop over the weekend.
A weave sample I did contrasting vertical and horizontal....Also seen in Thakoons Autumn 11 collection during NY fashion week-Clashing colours, patterns, textures! Betsey Johnson style....
This image is part of a piece of work by Richard Galpin. It is in the V&A in their photographic gallery. He has peeled away the majority of the photo to leave this pattern. I li...
My image is of a kaleidoscope, something considered boring and uninteresting can be transformed into something intriguing and a complex pattern
The text written is poetry in Urdu language and kind of jokes.
Truck Art in Pakistan, The truck drivers pay a fortune to get their trucks painted. The stylized imagery and bright colors makes the truck lively and fun and attract the customers.
This is a door in Soho, Ive walked past it so many times and not realised it was there which is surprising how bold and bright it is!The eclectic colours reminded me of the clash of colours we liked ...
I took this photo for one of my projects. I think that the colors of threads are very interesting and powerful.
This is a photo I took of coloured laces hanging in a fabric shop in Tokyo. The vibrancy of the bold, fun colours catch the eye immediately and would cheer you up even on the gloomiest London day!
Hi everyone !I found this image which is a part of a textile designer portfolio. Her name is Hallie Hoffman and she is from the United States.What I like about the image is the way she uses colors an...
BE A DETECTIVE... This is your challenge to go out and look for clues... where can you source your inspiration?Yellow Scarf / CHICTOPIAI found this image on CHICTOPIA... an online fashion commun...
Design Probe KitsSome of the ToolsEveryone participating within The Scarf Project has been given a design probe: a small kit containing some tools and materials to capture ideas and inspiration. The ...
Brainstorm SessionEdited Brainstorm
I am in the process of preparing for the first of three live projects exploring co-design for fashion / textiles and digital media. The first project will launch online next week and introduce the se...
*Call for Participation*AN EXCITING OPPORTUNITYCalling all current fashion or textile design students/graduates interested in collaboration: you are hereby invited to participate in a practice-led re...
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