Category: Textiles of the World

Saying Farewell: Looking back at all the fun

One of the nicest things about Sewcialists (in its most recent incarnation) was the myriad ways that the team came …

Hi Sewcialists! My name is Meira, and today we’ll learn about tekhelet (pronounced, teh-KHEH-let, with a “kh” like the sounds …

Hi Sewcialists, I’m Emma Capponi @emmacponysews, and as someone who has adopted Scotland as her home, I thought I’d write …

Hi Sewcialists, I’m Stephen Conway, son of Jim Conway, the founder of Emblem Weavers Irish Linen. My father was a …

Hi sewcialists! I am happy to share my first post here with you! How cool is it that we get …

All too often, textiles of the world are something we see only in pictures, they are not physical things forming …

Hi Sewcialists! This is a post written as part of the series “Textiles of the World”, which aims to explore …

INTRODUCTION Paithani is a sari textile dating back 2,000 years. It is from the Western state of Maharashtra, India. This …

Isishweshwe – the denim of South Africa. Growing up, I always thought of isishweshwe (Zulu for Shweshwe fabric) as something …

My first trip to Oaxaca, Mexico was just shy of 10 years ago. I took this trip with my sister-in-law …