Selvedge

Issue 23

Features:

• sustain Mending our ways: ethical textiles
• Cut flowers An extract from the Alabama Stitch Book
• Guiding hand Don’t turn your nose up at souvenir handkerchiefs
• international listings Exhibitions, fairs and events
• view Body Space Ghada Amer From Atoms to Patterns
• 3resources Information and research links for this issue
• Disentangling denim Serge de N̂mes or London serge: a cloth by any other name
• Net and nylon Elaine Duigenan captures an artificial beauty
• Waxing lyrical Henry Moore’s textiles
• Walking the block The poetry of Jane Weir
• Bird brain Designers flock together
• Urban jungle Let prints run wild
• New designers What happened to the new designers of yesterday
• Heavy metalTextile designers untempered enthusiasm for steel
• Mechanical data Jump threads and tension in the Schiffli Project
• Backpack basics Simple summer essentials
• Design fileA case history of classic textiles: The Silver Studio
• Ker pow! Power dressing
• Field workSew:Sow Jeanette Appleton on tour
• Sweet home Alabama Natalie Chanin’s love of the South
• Higher purposeCarin Mansfield’s lofty aims
• The wheel turns Justin Jin compares textile workers then and now