Sonia Delaunay (1885-1979) - Abolishing the hierarchy between the arts
Textile, painting, fashion, theatre decors and costumes, interior design, illustrations, advertising… This is the non exhaustive list of...
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Iris Favand
Mar 22, 20214 min read
Reem Asaad, Or the Key Role of Lingerie in Saudi Women Entering the Workforce
“It is really strange that Saudi Arabia is the only country where you see men selling women’s lingerie. Women walk around covered from...
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Iris Favand
Mar 16, 20213 min read
From a Silk Handkerchief to a Vascular Graft
Weaving, Knitting and Braiding to Create Medical Implants 5000 to 3000 BC. That’s when textile started being used for wound closures. At...
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Victoria Manganiello
Mar 15, 20212 min read
E-Coli is Purple
Silk dyed as part of Project Coelicolor; Image: Toby Coulson We should all know the name, Natsai Audrey Chieza. In the face of an...
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Victoria Manganiello
Mar 15, 20213 min read
Women in STEM; now and before; Part 1: Woven Memory Core
Discussion of the so-called “STEM Gap” has become increasingly more common over the past few decades. Corporations, institutions,...
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Victoria Manganiello
Mar 7, 20212 min read
Growing Architectural Textile
We expect architecture to be solid; to be strong, sturdy, hard, and static. But when we look at the history of architecture it started...
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Iris Favand
Mar 7, 20214 min read
Arachne
The Weaver Who Challenged the Gods “She wove you, Neptune, also, changed to a fierce bull for Canace, Aeolus’s daughter”, and “She added...
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Iris Favand
Mar 7, 20214 min read
Madeleine Vionnet (1876-1975)
Progressive business owner, textile innovator, liberator of the body “I tried, just like for the woman, to free the fabric from the...
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Victoria Manganiello
Mar 7, 20213 min read
Hyperbolic Crochet and the Institute For Figuring
"'The Toxic Reef' by Margaret Wertheim and The Institute For Figuring, The Southbank Centre" by Loz Flowers (1) Rachel Louise Carson,...
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Iris Favand
Mar 7, 20213 min read
The Panties are Political
“Freedom to the panties!” This is what the 30 women who got arrested in Kazakhstan in February 2014 shouted as they held up lingerie. (1)...
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Victoria Manganiello
Feb 2, 20211 min read
Woman Interwoven Blog
Coming Soon! Soon, we will be using this space to share the research we are doing behind the scenes to produce this documentary series....
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