A short video showing the work of user researchers at the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) – featuring Anna Rzepczynski who I taught* when she studied Textile Design at the University of Dundee! *she might beg to differ đ
Category Archives: Textiles
A plain womanâs guide to nylon for her husband
A brilliant (for all the wrong reasons) article from 1958 in which a Guardian journalist pondered the place of nylon in a man’s wardrobe. Does the tired business man slosh it through in the bathroom basin, rinse, and drape over the edge of the bath or over the towel rail, to leave a puddle on […]
The handknitted ‘trauma teddies’ comforting child refugees
Marion Gibson first started knitting âtrauma teddiesâ 15 years ago, after she saw firefighters in Australia give cuddly toys to children fleeing bush fires. After seeing how much comfort they gave them she started making gifts for children caught up in hurricanes, conflicts and other disasters around the world. Now, she is doing the same […]
The Fabric of India: Victoria and Albert Museum
I took the opportunity to visit this exhibition at the V&A recently and it is really very good. A far cry from the Alexander McQueen Savage Beauty exhibition in the same rooms last summer. And yet, for all its quiet unassuming nature in many ways this is the more appealing. Less about spectacle and more […]