We’ve been busy teaching children how to create patterns for themselves so that they are fully equipped to create seamless patterned fabric for all…
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From Painting to Blouse
Discover how to print your own with us at the PANTONE TROPICAL REPEATS IN PHOTOSHOP WORKSHOP broadcast live online and at Textiles Hub London!
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GEO FORM
MISS KINETIC PATTERNS?
You just missed KINETIC PATTERNS FOR DESIGNERS! Check back here for future variations on this exciting and popular theme – great for programmable textiles, social media, film and idents. See Listings here!
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Pattern, Textiles & Fashion on Film
Quentin Jones for Kenzo Pre-Fall 2012 You may have noticed that we embrace animation and film narratives as integral to contemporary textiles practice. This is because textiles manifest time and story-telling in their very DNA. Even digital code is textiles inasmuchas each pixel echoes the needlepoint stitch or punchcard hole in order to make the…
Read MoreSlow Textiles is Delighted to Announce the Launch of their Geometric Season!
Slow Textiles manipulate the lovely David Saunders’ knitwear: d a v i d d a v i d We are delighted to announce that over the next few months we are running a collective research project incorporating several Slow Textiles Group members dedicated to an exploration of the geometric form in textiles. All our workshops, including…
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Summer Sales,digital surface pattern inspired by Horace Taylor’s 1926 poster,Emma Neuberg, 2011.Horace Taylor, The Electric Railway Company,London, 1926This is British designer, Horace Taylor‘s poster (animated by Emma Neuberg) encouraging women in the suburbs to get into town via the London Underground and “buy British”! Taking a closer look at the ladies’ hats (especially the one on…
Read MoreSlow/Fast Experiments
Pastel and digital prints animated, Emma Neuberg, 2011. Experiment 1: Slow Hues,Pastel and digital print animated, Emma Neuberg, 2011. Over the next few weeks, we are experimenting at the juncture where slow, traditional, hand processes meet fast digitised ones to stimulate dialogue on surface pattern and new hybrid forms. The aim, loosely, is to combine old with…
Read MoreA GREAT BRITISH FLORAL PRINT MOMENT
Mary Katrantzou, 2011. Mary Katrantzou, 2011. Mary Katrantzou, 2011. Mary Katrantzou, 2011. Mary Katrantzou, 2011. Holly Fowler, 2011. We’re having a flora and fauna escapist day celebrating some of the wondrous digital prints coming from British designers in 2011. Building upon a tradition of floral regalia, all these Central Saint Martins’ graduates are breaking…
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Original Liberty Prints Books 1890 -1910
Members Melanie Bowles and Emma Neuberg were thrilled to recently spend time at the Liberty’s Archives getting inspiration for the next Slow/Fast Textiles Print workshops. These new workshops will be at the V&A Museum in April, May and June 2011, to run in conjunction with the new The Cult of Beauty: The Aesthetic Movement 1860…
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