The Very Timorous Beasties!

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Ying Wu, Running Rabbit, 2012
We were really moved by Ying Wu’s graduation silk prints at the Royal College of Art this week. She graduates this summer from the prestigious postgraduate Printed Textiles department (UK) following in the footsteps of Zandra Rhodes and Alice Temperley. 
One of her personal statements on her website reads,
“My project is a commentary on life in areas that are industrialising and urbanising at a fast pace. Despite the apparent economical development, air and water pollution and the loss of cultural heritage remain an issue..
Ying Wu, Bird, 2011
“..In this project, I illustrate through my images what I believe is happening and what might happen. Hopefully, this collection will raise public awareness of those issues..allowing people to think about whether we are stepping into the idyllic future we anticipate.”
Ying Wu, City, 2011
Ying Wu, Cow, 2012
Why not join us live or online on August 11th 2012 for the Slow Textiles lecture that deals with industrialisation and its impact on human, animal and ecological balance on August 11th 2012!
Details here!

To see lots more of Ying Wu’s images, including the superlative Under the Ground, go to ying wu.

Fashion To Die For 2 – Where Industry Meets Psychology – Live Online Event on June 16th!

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Book your place now – either attend in person for the full experience and networking opportunity or be there online where you can interact with the attendees remotely! This is the only place for cutting edge sustainable design thinking for fashion and textiles practitioners!


Book your place here:


http://thecorporation-eorg.eventbrite.com/

Slow Textiles at Dinner to Dye For!!

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We just spent a wonderful day with Permacouture at Hackney City Farm in central London, walking in the local park, picking plants to dye with, wrapping bundles of silk, dyeing them in pans of dockweed, onion and elderflower, hanging them to dry and chatting to lots of people who love flowers and fabrics!

After admiring the spectacular results, we all sat down to eat a delicious meal with the same plant groups we’d used all day for textiles! Even the earthenware we ate from was fired with some of the natural pigments we used. The potter joined us too.

There’ll be another event in August 2012 so if you’d like to attend, please email  katelyn@permacouture.org for details.

You can join in here!