Ida Marie Kold is a Danish mixed media artist specialising in embroidery, knitwear and print. How did you get into embroidery and knitting? It’s been a smooth transition from paper to textiles, fueled by curiosity and desire to learn and evolve. My grandma taught me to knit when I was little, but I didn’t…
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Collaging Fabrics
Hope Macaulay is a luxury womenswear brand by an emerging Northern Irish designer. Hope creates large expressive collaged paintings and transforms them into prints, combined with detailed beadings and knit to create her garments. She also creates her own embellishments, inspired by her passion for ceramic making using Fimo clay and various fabrics and beads combined…
Every Stitch I Make
Stefanija Pejchinovska is an embroidery artist originally from Macedonia. She’s been stitching for over 20 years and runs workshops in Berlin where she’s currently living. How did you get into embroidery? While I was growing up I was hanging out a lot with my grandmothers, they were lovely crafty ladies. I bonded mostly with my grandmother Milica,…
Sustainable Advantages
Carcel’s designs take their starting point in the Scandinavian design tradition where attention to detail and silhouette meets the most luxurious materials in the world. Each item is handmade in 100% natural materials. They believe in the power and future of Slow Fashion and keep their collections simple and strong, introducing new styles one at…
A Form of Activism
“Zeitgeist source collections through careful selection of garments from second-hand stores, re-fashioning them into new items and changing the way we envisage second-hand clothes, further enlightening us to the wasteful nature of fast fashion.” I spoke with the designer and founder Tanushri-Radha Saha about her textiles explorations and why she started the label. What made you…
When In Doubt Head North
“A A K S was founded by Akosua Afriyie-Kumi with the goal of introducing the world to her favourite weaving techniques done by the women of Ghana while also creating and igniting sustainable jobs within Africa. Handcrafted in Ghana, A A K S creates bags in styles that maintain the spirit and durability of their ancestral…