The large, upright blade rips the garments at the start of the shoddy-making process.

The garment comes from Europe and on entry into the Indian market is ripped as secondhand garments must not be in a sellable state as they enter the country.

This image and documentation of this garment journey, cycle and process is part of Lucy Norris’s exemplary research that culminates in Recycling Indian Clothing (published by Indiana University Press, 2010).

Qui va a La Rochelle en avril 2011?

International Symposium  & Exhibition on Natural Dyes,

La Rochelle, France,

24 – 30 April 2011.

An interesting line-up of papers is being presented over two days at The Textile Institute in Manchester on June 10th and 11th 2010.

Of note,

Eco-Design Approach as Managing Innovation Issue in Textile Field.

For details, go HERE.

Drs Kate Goldsworthy and Emma Neuberg are selected to present their papers

at

alongside originator of Islands of Slowness,

Ezio Manzini, and visionary, John Thakara.

On June 25th 2010 at 11.30am,

Alison Carter, Senior Keeper of Art and Design, Hampshire County Council Museum Service, presents her talk

Butterflies, Bees and Beetlewings on Textiles and Dress.

Taking place during National Insect Week, at the beautiful

Whitchurch Silk Mill,

in Hampshire, UK,

this is an unusual look at how insects have contributed to fabrics in our recent past.