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Digital Printing Inspires New Textile Patterns
Exciting new designs based on photographs, paintings or just about any digital image are now hitting fashion world thanks to recent advances in digital printing. Screenprinting, the standard...
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Vintage Can Also Mean Homemade
I found this vintage silk dress at Cavalli e Nostri, a recommended vintage boutique in Milan. Simple long silk gown with striking hand painted leafy patterns. My guess would be end of 60s? In contrast...
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Eye Candy: Vintage Liberty
I found the handsewn silk tunique in a friend’s colorful wardrobe. (I blogged earlier about Amanda‘s vintage finds). She bought the two piece tunique a few years ago from Portobello road. When do you...
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Marimekko Memory Cards
Familiar with my passion for textile prints, my friend Inma Martinez kindly loaned me a Marimekko memory card deck on which are printed some of their most memorable prints. The cards, all featuring...
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India’s Embroidered Ribbons
In the midst of pashmina shawls and papier maches stalls just outside Delhi’s Crafts Museum, I met an elderly couple from Northern India (near the Himalayas, they say) selling striking hand...
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Turning Vintage Obi Belts Into Clutches
Vintage obi belts from old kimonos now have a second life. Long passionate about Japanese textiles, my friend Michelle Lai amassed an impressive collection of vintage kimono obi sashes. Experimental...
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Fabien Blachier: Textile Design, Fashion’s Hidden Beat
The hidden beat behind a fashion collection is often set by textile design. Less in the lime light than fashion designers, designers of textile patterns are the often forgotten storytellers. Artists...
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London Fashion Week 2013: New Wave of Sophisticated Digital Prints
Marios Schwab autumn-winter 2013. Photo credit: IHT Jonathan Saunders, autumn/winter 2013. Photo credit: IHT We are entering a new phase of digital printing, with more subdued yet striking and elegant...
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