Super stoked for teaching 'Knitting Across the British Isles' at the Victoria and Albert Museum today with guro knitter Prof Sandy Black. Its dreary outside, perfect weather for igniting conversations. This is my explosion jumper from 2010 knitted in Shetland DK and mohair.#knitting #january #explosiveenergy
In-person meetup for farmers and designers! The King’s Arms, Oxford, January 9th, 2025, 6-8pm
We were blown over by your warm response to our Farmer-Designer meetups this autumn, initiated and organised by @southwestenglandfibreshed and @southeastenglandfibreshed and co-hosted with @sustfash .
The next, and for now the last, opportunity to join us is coming up in Oxford, alongside the Oxford Real Farming Conference.
Our meetups create space for friendly and supportive conversations between farmers and designers who share our interest in revaluing British wool. The aim is to create connections and collaborations that can help farmers diversify into fibre and fashion products and enable designers to work with regional wool.
Building on the beautiful Farming Fashion: Wool Guide, created and produced by @southeastenglandfibreshed + @southwestenglandfibreshed , the meetups are co-funded by @farmingthefuture_ and the Future Fashion Landscapes project collaboration, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC).
Interested?
Register via the Eventbrite link in the bio.
Photo Credit: Wheatsheaf Farm @lam.food.fibre by Joss McKinley @jossmckinley
Design: Dörte de Jesus @dortedejesus
#FutureFashionLandscapes #SouthEastEnglandFibreshed #SouthWestEnglandFibreshed #CSF #CentreForSustainableFashion
Future Observatory: Tomorrow’s Wardrobe Exhibition | The Design Museum 🌟 On now until August 2025!
This brand-new free exhibition features contributions from CSF’s Future Fashion Landscapes project and collaboration with South East and South West England Fibreshed.
Tomorrow’s Wardrobe brings together a diversity of designers, makers, researchers and others from across the fashion industry who are revolutionising the way we create, make, and wear our clothes.
This free display showcases the urgent research and innovation work taking place across the UK to rethink the world of fashion. Moving from fabric landscapes to design studios to individual garments, the display presents a future built from both high-tech and low-tech tools: sewing machines, robotic arms, artificial intelligence, digital ids, upcycling, recycling and more.
Tomorrow’s Wardrobe is curated by Future Observatory, the Design Museum’s national research programme for the green transition. Future Observatory is coordinated by the Design Museum in partnership with the Arts and Humanities Research Council.
🔗 Click the link in bio for more details! 💫
Image Description and Credit: Yellow jumper designed by Phoebe English, produced in partnership with South East England Fibreshed, in Tomorrow’s Wardrobe. Photography by Aaron Parsons for the Design Museum.
#DesignMuseumLondon #FutureObservatory #TheDesignMuseum #TomorrowsWardrobe #DesignMuseumExhibition #CSF #CentreForSustainableFashion #SustainableFashion #SouthWestEnglandFibreshed #SouthEastEnglandFibreshed
Farming Fashion: Wool. Calling farmers and designers for online meet ups!
Centre for Sustainable Fashion (CSF) have joined forces with South East England Fibershed (SEE) and South West England Fibreshed (SWE) to support Fibreshed’s mission to revalue UK wool and create short, transparent bio-regional fibre and fashion supply networks with potential for replication.
SEE and SWE Fibresheds have just launched their Farming Fashion: Wool guide that addresses one of the key issues identified in an extensive consultation with farmers, designers, and processors - the lack of links, common language and understanding of each other’s requirements and production cycles.
Through our new Future Fashion Landscapes project, we are connecting CSF and Fibreshed networks, using the guide to open conversations and facilitate long-term collaborations between farmers and designers in the SE and SW regions.
As the first step, we are convening a series of on-line meet ups to introduce the guide and start conversations on experiences, opportunities and challenges between farmers and designers.
The meet ups will be co-hosted by Emma Hague, Director of SWE Fibreshed; Deborah Barker, Director of SEE Fibreshed and Dr Mila Burcikova from Centre for Sustainable Fashion, London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London. These will be later followed by in-person meet-ups in Bristol, London, and several farms in the SE and SW regions.
Interested?
Please e-mail Emma Hague ([email protected]), with a brief response to the following questions:
- Your breeds
- Your expected clip this year
- Your farming system (e.g. agroecological, organic, conservation grazing, in conversion etc.)
Learn more via the link in bio!
Photo Credit: Wheatsheaf Farm @lam.food.fibre by Joss McKinley @jossmckinley
Design: Dörte de Jesus @dortedejesus
Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), part of UK Research and Innovation.
#SustainableFashion #FutureFashionWool #Fibreshed #MilaBurcikova #CentreForSustainableFashion #UKwool #UKDesigners #UKFarmers
Farming Fashion: Wool. Calling designers and farmers for online meet ups!
Centre for Sustainable Fashion (CSF) have joined forces with South East England Fibershed (SEE) and South West England Fibreshed (SWE) to support Fibreshed’s mission to revalue UK wool and create short, transparent bio-regional fibre and fashion supply networks with potential for replication.
SEE and SWE Fibresheds have just launched their Farming Fashion: Wool guide that addresses one of the key issues identified in an extensive consultation with farmers, designers, and processors - the lack of links, common language and understanding of each other’s requirements and production cycles.
Through our new Future Fashion Landscapes project, we are connecting CSF and Fibreshed networks, using the guide to open conversations and facilitate long-term collaborations between farmers and designers in the SE and SW regions.
As the first step, we are convening a series of on-line meet ups to introduce the guide and start conversations on experiences, opportunities and challenges between farmers and designers.
The meet ups will be co-hosted by Emma Hague, Director of SWE Fibreshed; Deborah Barker, Director of SEE Fibreshed and Dr Mila Burcikova from Centre for Sustainable Fashion, London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London. These will be later followed by in-person meet-ups in Bristol, London, and several farms in the SE and SW regions.
Interested?
Please e-mail Emma Hague ([email protected]), with a brief response to the following questions:
- Do you use wool in your design practice?
- Do you have any experience with soil-to-soil textiles?
- Do you currently have capacity for a new collaboration?
Learn more via the link in bio!
Photo Credit: Wheatsheaf Farm @lam.food.fibre by Joss McKinley @jossmckinley
Design: Dörte de Jesus @dortedejesus
Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), part of UK Research and Innovation.
#SustainableFashion #FutureFashionWool #Fibreshed #MilaBurcikova #CentreForSustainableFashion #UKwool #UKDesigners #UKFarmers
Looking forward to our in-person workshop and book launch next week at the Art Workers Guild in London, afternoon of 6th March, with the editors, several contributors and industry guests. Further details via Centre for Sustainable Design website .uk/events/book-launch-v2/
Our Knitting History Forum 2024 conference is on Saturday 3rd February (online on Zoom.) There's still time to book for this year's online event!
Six talks present historic knitted artefacts and documents plus contemporary reconstruction processes and designs. For full programme and tickets (via Eventbrite) see Knitting History Forum website - link in bio. Pictured is the fascinating Korsnäs sweater from Finland made using both knitting and crochet. Tickets for recordings will be made available after the event for those who cannot attend on the day.
#knittinghistoryforum
Join CSF's @ProfSandyBlack next week for a new book launch!
Published by Routledge and co-edited by Martin Charter, Bernice Pan and Sandy Black, 'Accelerating Sustainability in Fashion, Clothing and Textiles' presents a comprehensive overview of the challenges and emerging opportunities faced by the sector, and provides strategic solutions as to how the sector can substantially accelerate sustainability. The book’s holistic approach brings together both academic and industry perspectives on the critical areas that require immediate action to move towards a more sustainable fashion, clothing and textile sector.
🗓️ 25 September
🕓️ 4-5PM (GMT)
📍 Online
This event is free to attend. To register, please email your name, job title, and organisation to Ros Carruthers [email protected]
#SustainableFashion #FashionTextiles #FashionandSustainability
There's still time to book your ticket for our Knitting History Forum online conference on Sat 28th Jan. Ticket sales end on Weds 25th. This year we feature knitting traditions from different parts of the world with speakers Cynthia LeCount Samake and Frankie Owens on Knitting from Peru and Bolivia; Kristi Jõeste on Estonian mittens and gloves; Hélène Magnússon on Icelandic Knitting; and Irene Waggener on Knitting in Morocco's High Atlas. The speakers have researched these diverse knitting cultures and several have published books on their traditions and continuing development, including patterns old and new. Full programme and booking details available on our Knitting History Forum website .
@knittinghistoryforum@helenemagnusson@kristijoeste@waggens_ho@cynthia_samake
On my way to Derbyshire to the Knitting & Crochet Guild Convention to speak tomorrow about Classic Knits of the 1980s as featured in my recent book. Here's some ready to wear designs of my own.
