Decorating with textiles is a practice in embracing imperfection

Getting things a little wrong is the key to getting things right.
C&EN

Transforming textiles

Patrik Lundström is pleased with his new pair of Levi’s 501s. “The touch and feel is exactly the same as your cotton jeans,” he says. Lundström is CEO of Renewcell, a Swedish start-up that has created ...
insider.si.edu

The handbook of textile culture / edited by Janis Jefferies, Diana Wood Conroy and Hazel Clark

1. New approaches to textile design / Hazel Clark -- 2. Views from Australia and the Asia Pacific / Diana Wood Conroy -- 3. Curating textiles : stuff that matters / Sara Martinetti, Alice Motard and ...
Hyperallergic

Unraveling the Imperial Impulses of Chinese Textiles

Like an art history detective, Mei Mei Rado mines textiles and techniques to reveal cross-cultural Chinese-European liaisons driven by nationalism and a keen interest in design. There are two major ...
Architectural Digest

Batik 101: Where It Comes From, How It’s Made, and How to Use It in an Interior

Celebrated by designers, tastemakers, and pattern-lovers for centuries, batik is both a type of fabric and an ancient dyeing technique with a long and complicated history. Often grouped with other ...