Sheridan Textiles Program
1430 Trafalgar Rd L6H 2L1 Oakville, ON, Canada

Hello, Sheridan Textiles Alumni! Check out this Full-time Job Opportunity at RISD: "Textiles, Technical Assistant III, Surface": https://www.surfacedesign.org//full-time-job-opportunity-/

Via Carrie Lederer Diedrick Brackens

Sydney Sogol of Syd's Threads is a handweaver creating exquisite, luxury wearable art. Each piece is created to pay tribute to a single creature’s unique beauty... and story. She handpaints and dyes yarn that mimics the gorgeous colors found in birds and ocean creatures. Sydney then combines these colors with the complex, original patterns she designs to create stunning accessories. She primarily works with Tencel, an eco-friendly natural yarn that is manufactured with nontoxic chemicals and recycled water. See more

It can take months to finish a scarf made of lotus silk - fabric from lotus stems.

Part 1 of a very interesting new series!

The Ancient Mangle of Santarcangelo di Romagna: Preserving the Art of Rust-Printed Fabric. This short documentary, by Italian filmmaker Luisa Grosso, takes you ...inside the Marchi family's workshop to demonstrate the workings of their original, 17th-century mangle and other tools of the trade that have been handed down through four generations. Handcarved wooden molds or stamps are used to print patterns on antique hemp fabrics for a soft, lustrous textile that can last for centuries. You can learn more about the art of rust printing in Ms. Grosso's short article, found on The Craftsmanship Initiative site: http://bit.ly/rust-print-mangle Video Source: Craftsmanship Initiative

Serving you LEGO couture! Big congrats to Jerry Nicholls on this amazing build. #RebuildTheWorld

This was posted to a clay group; thought it would be more appreciated here.

Join us this Sunday! A free presentation on the life and work of William Morris. More information under the events tab. Registration link: https://zoom.us//r/...9015948271406/WN_IVaQ53wgT02TZrIufdCPrg Background reading: Arts and Crafts family home with Morris & Co. interiors, set in a beautiful hillside garden. Designed by Philip Webb, taking inspiration from the local Sussex vernacular, and furnished by Morris & Co., Standen was the Beales’ country retreat from 1894.

By tapping into the underlying geometry that determines the spatial arrangement of flower petals and pinecone scales, John Edmark creates sculptures that endles...sly spiral and bloom. Learn how Edmark makes such mesmerizing kinetic sculptures. https://www.sciencefriday.com//sculpting-the-unending-blo/

In the old capital of Kyoto, the kimono developed alongside traditional culture while also creating various cottage industries; one of which we’ll look at. The ...art of dyeing. CORE KYOTO Mini (Kata-Yuzen: The Stenciled Beauty of Dyeing) https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/ondemand/video/6024011/

Inside the secretive world of the ateliers, the Autumn-Winter 2020-2021 Haute Couture collection by Maria Grazia Chiuri, on.dior.com/couture-aw2021, took shape ...through a process of invention typical of the famed Dior savoir-faire that saw each piece created twice - once in the usual size, and again in scaled down miniature. While both received the same meticulous attention to detail, each posed its own unique challenges to the petites mains. See more

The Guardian newspaper once described Constance Howard as: the most influential pioneer in textile design of her generation. You might think she had endless ...textile techniques at her fingertips, she may have done, but her advice for her students was the opposite: You don’t need to know hundreds of stitches. But you need to use the ones you do know well!