Jack Frost knocked on your scribe's front door this morning and declared the interior temperature as officially "frosty". That means just one thing (other than loading the wheelbarrow with gold bullion and trundling down to the gas provider); it's time to break out...
Nick Hartwright and Mark Hanlon collaborate with "the world's finest cutting edge artists and designers to create beautiful, limited-edition hand-knotted rugs." Together they are Foundation, a new rug company. Foundation's inaugural exhibition - "Rug Addicts" - opened...
Edible Surfaces is a collaborative project by London based textile studio Pinaki Studios and Amsterdam's premium chocolate retailer Chocolátl. The collaboration draws inspiration from the processes of chocolate artisans and textile manipulations such as pleating,...
Guy Fawkes night is past; the crypt is closed on Halloween; Alla helgons dag is no more, and the Day of the Dead is buried. The annual commemoration of failed political skullduggery; the celebration of ghouls, witches and "sexy" Halloween; and remembrances of the dead...
On the back of the V&A's fabulous Hollywood Costume exhibition, how about following it up with a Hollywood Carpet exhibition? Andrew Hearst has designed these carpet tiles based on the creepy hotel floors in Stanley Kubrick's The Shining and is looking for a...
Editor Ben Evans picked up the Metro on the way to work this morning and discovered crotchetdermy. We love crocheting queen Shauna Richardson's collection of stuffed animals. So do the V&A who exhibited her work as part of their 'The Power of Making' exhibition....
The sumptuous damasks of the illustrious Italian fabric house Rubelli have been teamed with a shoe company equally steeped in tradition to fabulous effect. Masked balls here we come! RW
Fanfare Aaron Copland style please. It's time for your scribe's roll call of favourite carpets, rugs and textiles from Decorex International 2012. (In no particular order.) We Are Front "exceptional rugs" will be opening their London showroom in Spring 2013. At...
Jan Kath's new gallery opening in Stuttgart featured a magic carpet skating past, giving the assembled throng the chance to admire not just the fine art and workmanship of the rugs on display, but also their heelflips and ollies, dude. RW http://www.jan-kath.de/