bricolage have curated an exhibition of our work and invited a small selection of some of our favourite product and furniture designers, at the Centre Commercial space in Paris in June.The show is in...
Great article in the New York Times recently about the revived interest in natural dyes for textiles. Sasha Duerr of Permacouture Institute features and the Textile Arts Centre (TAC) in Brooklyn, whi...
Since I started my PhD last October I have barely had a chance to reflect on what Ive seen and experienced. This is what I am doing now and boy has it been a journey so far!One of the highlights of t...
My work and thoughts will be included in a publication and on a website called ATLAS:Geography, Architecture and Change in an Interdependent World that comes out of a project called Interdependence D...
A short statement I was asked to write in answer to the question, What does the future of fashion/textiles look like to you?:The future of fashion and textiles is human-centred. We need a fashion sys...
While I was in Melbourne, I visited the wonderful Plant Craft Cottage in the Royal Botanic Gardens. Run by a group of volunteers, some of whom have been there for many, many years, the group celebrat...
“I love quality. I love longevity. I love good design. I love ideas. I love this town. But most of all I love that I can wrap all these things up into a pair of jeans.” This quote comes from David Hi...
Today I began a visual mapping of Harvest’s resources. I began with the physical resources of the workshop, observing and watching how the workshop was run, the paraphernalia gathered by this group o...
Today I focused on the textile scrap box here at Harvest. Rummaging through it, I remembered how content I am when I have a pile of old fabrics to discover. I feel the stories and past of these scrap...
“We believe the future is small. Worldwide, the hyper-local is gaining importance, and the car-fuelled tomorrow is grinding to a halt. Small cities - and the small cities within cities - are re-emph...
I have finally got myself onto the print table here at Harvest. Once again, I responded only to what was already at Harvest Workroom, or from the local area, for my materials and design process. My c...
Im a Designer-in-Residence at Harvest Textiles this week and will be beginning my Local Cloth Project, as part of my PhD research.The residency will explore the concept of ‘local textiles’ where I ho...
A new type of economic system that prioritises the two most important aspects of our lives as human beings - the care we give to each other and the natural system of the planet.So simple and so obvio...
Last month, deep in the bowls of Swedens first nuclear testing room, 25 meters under a University campus in Stockholm, a group of coders and web developers met for a Green Hackathon. There is a wealt...
For anyone who lives in the land of Oz, Ill be an Artist-in-Resident at Harvest Textiles in Melbourne in January for a week, working on my local textiles and colour project, where Ill be developing a...
The most interesting thing I saw at TENT London last week (aside from my fellow bricoleur Naomi Pauls divine pendant lights!) was a textile installation by product designer Henny van Nistelrooy, who ...
I visited the British Museum recently to see the exhibition on Aboriginal baskets, or dillybags as we sometimes call them. I spent some time working amongst Aboriginal communities up in far north Que...
" To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends, to apprecia...
While I was in Bengal in January, visiting the Katnas Kanthas craft enterprise, I spent a few quiet days sitting with a group of women from the surrounding villages stitching into some of my digital ...
One of the main outcomes from the Upcycling Textiles research project I was part of at TED, has been a workshop series called Interconnected Design Thinking, where we encourage designers to explore s...
bricolage have created a wall for great online shop Supermarket Sarah. We are selling some lovely new pieces and classic old ones. Im selling my Magnolia wall piece and some of the quilts from Katnas...
Several happenings in the last few weeks have reminded me why I love London so much! This great city pulsates with hidden gems round every corner and all these amazing people setting up enterprises w...
I presented my PhD proposal last week to the group of researchers from the MISTRA Future Fashion project that I will be attached to. I wrote the proposal as Social Textiles: the textile designer as a...
"Go for a walk; cultivate hunches; write everything down, but keep your notebooks messy; embrace serendipity; make mistakes; take on multiple hobbies; frequent coffee houses and other liquid netw...
Katherine and I have completed our Print & Patchcraft Workshops and the highlight for me was learning more about plants and natural colours for dyeing. I was so taken by the indigo dye bath and t...
I have recently discovered that the word thrift derives from an Old Norse word meaning to thrive and that thrift literally means prosperity or well-being, in the sense of wholeness. The idea of thrif...
As bricolage, we recently handed in an (unsuccessful!) application to be a collective-in-residence at the V & A this summer, as part of their new exhibition The Power of Making, which will explor...
Last autumn I showed a new piece of work as part of the bricolage collective exhibit at Top Drawer, a very mainstream trade fair in London. It was a follow on from the Magnolia series I had done in 2...
Social Textiles: These two words are what I am going to be spending the next few years exploring through my practice - what they mean in relation to each other, for designers, and I guess what they m...
The word resilience has turned up in my vocabulary lately, and it is an idea that has great resonance for the changin times we are living through. It is used alot in the context of the Transition Tow...
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