Textile Talk with Stitch by Stitch is a series of informal chats with some of our favourite textile brands, designers and friends, created to provide a little 30 mins of distraction and, we hope comfort, in this very strange time of lockdown that most of us around the world find ourselves in.
Read MoreIn order to help your life run as smoothly as possible, we are pleased to tell you that we can now offer Gift Cards to be redeemed on our website at any time, with no expiry date. You may wish to send a Gift Card as a remote birthday gift, or perhaps as a thank you to someone who is helping you out at this very difficult time.
Read MoreToday, we are offering Selvedge readers the chance to win a curated selection of three different handmade cushions showcasing a variety of handiwork from our stable of artisans.
Read MoreWe chose to work with Bristol Weaving Mill to weave our Barley and Barton Throws because they are a small, dynamic, experimental and creative mill. Their expertise meant we could realise our rather complex designs. The throws are woven using the double cloth technique, which means they are reversible. For texture we chose a Donegal Tweed wool, spun in Ireland, and a little bit of alpaca ensures a very soft handle!
Read MoreLondon 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.
Read MoreStitch by Stitch, creators of handmade textiles from India and Nepal, present an installation as part of the Brompton Design District programme under the theme ‘Material Consequences’. Located at no 197 Brompton Road, ‘From Rain to Loom’ highlights the Khamir Kala Cotton Initiative which is a reinterpretation of an old craft value chain reconfigured for the modern marketplace, and Stitch by Stitch’s work with this material.
Read MoreWe’re extremely fortunate to have discovered Raimal, his wife and daughter, master quilt makers, from Gujarat.
They’ve been making quilts most of their adult lives, and their expert skills at piecing, layering and kantha stitching by hand are faultless. Their tiny stitches are close together in neat rows, which sets them apart from many cheaper kantha stitched pieces on the market.
Read MoreThe award-winning Vankar Vishram Valji weavers are some of the most respected and accomplished weavers in Kutch. Master weaver Shamji and his family train and employ around 90 weavers on pit looms they built after the earthquake of 2001.
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