Slow Design School Open Day This Saturday!

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YOU are invited to the Slow Design School Open Day this Saturday at 3pm in
West Hampstead, London, United Kingdom!

If you’re not in the United Kingdom, just ask for a login link and we’ll send you a recording
of the event!

Meet like-minded people, learn new things, develop your practice, get access to the theoretical framework of sustainable design, ideate, collaborate, exhibit and get funding through the Slow Studio platform!

Send an email with Open Day as the subject to guarantee your place!

A Slow Studio Ideation Day, 2011!

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!

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!

Slow Textiles Group Member Rachelle Francis’ Work for Paris Houses Chanel, YSL, Nina Ricci, etc!

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It’s showcase time and we’re delighted to illustrate a handful of Slow Textiles Group Member, Rachelle Francis’s stunning embroidery work and to announce that other Slow Textiles Group associates will be working with her soon to assist her busy haute couture collections preparation!

Why not come to one of our many exciting events and meet Rachelle and all our talented,
co-creating members to learn more!

  Rachelle Francis