CO-CREATED VIRTUAL PATCHWORK

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The Slow Textiles Group spent a great weekend inspired by Liberty’s of London quilt-maker, Katherine May, teaching hands-on fabric geometrics.
Then, following STG director, Emma Neuberg’s instruction in how to convert these into digital animations, members of the Slow Textiles Group worked together on the first ever co-created virtual digital patchwork. Katherine May, Geraldine Peclard, Katie Faddy, Christina Darminin, Pennina Bartlett, Manda Clarke, Red Isaac, Veronica, Emma Neuberg, Susana Fernandez and Tania Knuckey thought they’d share this first incarnation of it with you here. This represents the first international virtual ‘patchwork’ animated and created internationally in an afternoon by top textile designers.
The workshop concluded with a series of textile animator, Tania Grace Knuckey’s  poetic, evocative and stunning textile animations in the Print Room Cinema! Much excitement, dialogue and future thinking was set in motion in anticipation of STG Geometrics Season: Symposium, Exhibition and Catalogue 2013.

We Loved our Day with Paul Smith, Margaret Howell and Vince Cable Supporting the March of the Makers!

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We spent a wonderful day with Paul Smith, Margaret Howell, Brooks Brothers, Members of Parliament and the City of London livery companies today. We have fantastic weavers, knitters, embroiderers, pattern cutters and printers in our group who all promote superlative creative vision, skill and business acumen. We’re getting behind all our wonderful textiles professionals and members to help in the upswell of the Made in Britain campaign from now and into the future.

Slow Textiles Group Highlighted at the Ethical Fashion Forum Source Expo!

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We so enjoyed the EFF Source Expo today! There was such an array of fantastic suppliers and producers being showcased from all over the world.

Our member, Lisa Bloomer, was one of the only British wool weavers represented.  Design and sustainability are so central to her work and vision that the result is a cutting edge product that offers an aesthetic sensibility that far surpasses the more rural-looking weaves largely presented today. Technique, aesthetic and sustainable methodologies are central to Lisa’s innovation hence she won the Althea McNish Prize for Colour, Royal College of Art 2012 and the Great British Texprint 2012 award as well as being shortlisted for the new Sustain Award at the Royal College of Art 2012. Watch this space!

In Great Britain we have the designers, the heritage and the skills – that’s why the Slow Textiles Group is housing them in their studio!

Lisa Bloomer is now featured on the front cover of the EFF Source Magazine’s Trend Report: Wool and Heavyweight Fabrics:

 

Other highlights of the day include,

 

If you’d like to work with us to develop your design work and aesthetic collections, content and development for a western and eastern market,  please mail us via the Contact Page.

The Ethical Fashion Forum website has the full supplier list of today’s SOURCE Expo (Day 1) – there are too many to cite here!

Slow Textiles Group UK and Australia Artisans!

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Lisa Bloomer, woven silk and British wool undulating scarlet geometrics for interiors, UK made.



The Slow Textiles Group are delighted to present a growing collection of their members united in an obsession with geometrics!
Bridget Harvey, recycled wood accessories, UK made. 
Geraldine Peclard, poetic organic cottons, UK made.
Joanna Fowles, harmonious colour collections, Australia/UK made.

Tanvi Kant, recycled silver trimmings, UK sourced and made.

Melanie Bowles, socially designed textiles with group copyright, UK made.


Amazing Co-creation Workshop With Emma Neuberg, Katherine May and Tania Grace Knuckey on Nov 3rd!

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Totem Blends, Emma Neuberg, 2012
Triangulated Patchwork, Katherine May, 2010.
Frame Sequence, Tania Grace Knuckey, 2012.
An amazing creative conversation opens up with the Slow Textiles Group on November 3rd at 2pm in the Slow Studio, West Hampstead, London, and internationally, online. 
The afternoon offers you a hands-on workshop where you’ll learn to combine patchwork making with digital animation and film for a new kind of connected conversation whilst hearing the artists speak.
Booking details here. Places flying!