Selvedge Stories

A sensitive issue

We'd like to talk to you about a delicate matter. Following a visit to Japan German born artist Hillu Liebelt has produced a new series of work. The sophisticated mixture...

Head to Percy Street to banish grey and gloomy ...

With a sun as unreliable as ever I think it might be best to look elsewhere for a burst of colour and light. Spectrum is on show until 9 August...

One day on...

And we would like to bring a designer from New Designers, One Year On to your attention. Delyth Walsh was the worthy winner of the Textile Society's Lucienne Day Award....

New Designers 2008

We have come to the realisation that three entries and lots of good intentions do not a blog make... so we would like to draw a line under what amounted...

Ma Ke at the V&A

The word petrified came to mind during Ma Ke’s (Selvedge 21) show on the 16 May. Like bodies unearthed from ash covered villas in Pompeii the living statues loomed out...

Play date

What do a Scottish man's underwear, a frowning child and Queen Victoria have in common? In this case all three were part of, Curator of Dress, Dolls and Child Care...