London Design Festival: From Rain to Loom at Brompton Design District

London Design Festival celebrates and promotes London as a design capital, and takes place in hundreds of venues and institutions throughout the city every September, showcasing design projects and products from all over the world. This year we were delighted to have been selected to show as part of Brompton Design District, in one of the vacant retail spaces on the prestigious Brompton Road, allocated to designers by South Kensington Estates.

Karen Sear ShimaliSeptember 28, 2018London Design Festival, Brompton Design District, London design events, Fashioned From Nature, Victoria and Albert Museum, Fernando Laposse, Totomoxtle, From Rain to Loom, organic cotton, Kantha QuiltComment

The Fabric of India at the Victoria & Albert Museum

This comprehensive exhibition pulls together a vast number of exhibits, many collected in the 19th century for what was once the India Museum in London (1801-1879). It explores the wide variety of materials and techniques used to create textiles both for everyday use, and for the wealthy. It also documents the history of India's export of textiles all over the world.

Karen Sear ShimaliDecember 9, 2015Victoria and Albert Museum, Fabric of India, India, Textiles, Kutch textiles, Hand weaving, ari embroidery, embroidery, Khalid Amin, Dayalal Kudecha, Kiri Makaudi, Aziz and Suleman Khatri, clamp-dyeing, block printing, sari Comment