Stephanie Kwolek, the Inventor of Kevlar
Kevlar was first developed in 1965 by Polish-American chemist Stephanie Kwolek while working for DuPont in the Experimental Station...
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Victoria Manganiello
Jan 1, 20234 min read
Geotextiles are Everywhere
You might not realize it, but geotextiles are secretly working behind the scenes to make your life better on a daily basis. These...
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Victoria Manganiello
Sep 3, 20223 min read
Australian Contemporary Textile Artists
During six weeks based in Melbourne as an artist in residence at the Australian Tapestry Workshop, I had the pleasure to meet tons of...
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Victoria Manganiello
Jun 23, 20223 min read
There is a Renewable Resource on your Head
Many of the textiles we use every day are made with natural fibers. Plant-based fibers like cotton or flax (linen) are popular and common...
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Giovanna Pedrinola
May 5, 20224 min read
Weaving in Iraq’s Garden of Eden
“If the nature of architecture is the grounded, the fixed, the permanent, then textiles are its very antithesis. If, however, we think of...
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Giovanna Pedrinola
May 2, 20224 min read
Helene Rother – Women in Automotive Design
“And even today, after six years (as a designer), the automotive industry is still unique in its lack of employing women in creative...
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Victoria Manganiello
Mar 16, 20222 min read
Hollyhock: Experiments in Natural Dye
The history of color is as old as time but it's only in this modern era that the majority of our colors come from synthesized,...
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Giovanna Pedrinola
Feb 24, 20224 min read
Prosthetics: Textiles Inside and Out
When describing the human body, words such as flexible, malleable, and soft come to mind, and the same can be said about textiles. In the...
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Giovanna Pedrinola
Feb 22, 202214 min read
An Interview with Maria Fernanda Paes de Barros
*The original interview done in Portuguese can be found below. In January 2022, I had the pleasure of meeting Maria Fernanda Paes de...
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Giovanna Pedrinola
Feb 11, 20224 min read
Innovation and Textiles in Sports
“Modern performance textiles have changed the way people interact with the outdoors, enabling them to scale the tallest mountains, run...
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Giovanna Pedrinola
Feb 7, 20224 min read
Sounds of Weaving
What are the sounds that weaving makes? Does each loom and every weaver produce unique sounds? When thinking about weaving and textiles,...
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Giovanna Pedrinola
Dec 24, 20214 min read
Words, Women and Weaving
“The words “text” and “textile” share a common ancestor: the Latin “texere,” to weave. Similarly, “fabrica”–something skilfully...
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Taryn Hilsman
Nov 4, 202115 min read
The Khipu Knot Records of the Andes
Figure 1 Khipu Cord from the Inka Period (1300-1532) [Museo Larco, "Los Quipus, Época Imperial,"ML60004, Lima, Peru] The khipu knot...
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Giovanna Pedrinola
Nov 3, 20214 min read
Fungi Fabrics: A look into the world of Mycelium and Textiles
“Human societies have always pivoted around prodigious fungal metabolisms” – Merlin Sheldrake As humans, we tend to focus on our...
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Althea Hurwitz
Oct 19, 202118 min read
An Interview with Carolina Arévalo Karl
Carolina Arévalo Karl is an independent curator, educator, organizer, and artist based in Santiago, Chile. In Fall 2020, Althea Hurwitz...
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Althea Hurwitz
Oct 14, 202117 min read
An Interview with Marilyn Zapf
Marilyn Zapf is currently the Director of Programs and Curator at the Center for Craft in Asheville, North Carolina, USA, a national...
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Rose White
Oct 13, 20214 min read
Maria Montessori: Educator, Feminist, Icon
Alison's Montessori Fabric Box It is not true that I invented what is called the Montessori Method. I have studied the child, I have...
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Iris Favand
Oct 2, 20214 min read
Weavers and Spinners of Destiny in Northern European Mythology
"Die Nornen" (1889) by Johannes Gehrts At the end of the Njáls saga — the Icelandic epic written in the 13th century — one can read this...
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Giovanna Pedrinola
Sep 28, 20213 min read
Petra Blaisse: The Fluidity in Architecture
What are the forms in which textiles and architecture can be combined? According to Petra Blaisse and what she expresses through her...
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Victoria Manganiello
Sep 18, 20214 min read
Our World Wide Web
“What do you think of when you think of Romania?” “Vampires and…Kraft_Made” is what I would have said if you’d asked back in early 2014...
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