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‘Everything from weavetowear is made by hand’ is a statement that is
repeated continually. It remains to be said that the website is also
made by hand. It is constructed by my husband and I take the photos and
write the text.
Miss Marion Campbell at her loom, the very woman who passed on to me the skill and knowhow of weaving her style of tweed, a tweed sought out by people around the world, as her guestbook was testimony to. She spun and dyed the wool from the fleece of sheep living around her croft, and wove it onto a bought warp of local Harris tweed yarn, the warp forming the backdrop of the tweed. She had won many a competition for Best Tweed, the first when she was only 18 years old. She also told me that she had many a student but that to her surprise they often just sat on a rock with a book and read! She was well into her 70’s when I came along.
My artistry is a striving in textile to achieve
wholeness of form, construction and colour, a tactility akin to a
rhythm. The point of departure is to decorate a person, a wall or floor;
to open a window into nature’s chest of wonders, to where we are at
home. One is tempted to call it ‘a note and a beat’.
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Indigofera is a plant colour we all probably recognise easily, even if
we can’t name it, particularly from the blue jeans and cowboy pants that
so many, all over the world, dress in.
A new study shows that it is now also raining microplastics. It
doesn’t only damage the animals and fish in the oceans. We know that
the ever-increasing amount of microplastics in the soil around the
world has reduced the success-rate of worm reproduction and crop
growth. Plastic particle movement patterns in the waterways have been
well explored, and now new research shows a hitherto overlooked
transport route for microplastics' journey to the world's oceans -
namely the atmosphere.
A new book by the fashion designer Orsola de Castro.
The book is full of startling fact about fashion's impact on the planet and its people. It is “as much about mending systems as about mending clothing,’ she says. De Castro advocates radical keeping, as oppose to decluttering. The only antidote to throwaway culture is to keep. “So I am an obsessive keeper,” she says. “Your first habit when you buy clothes, should be to read the label, for example, polyester sheds millions of microfibres.” It can now be found at the bottom of the ocean and at the top of Everest. Every time you wsh a piece of polyester, about 5,000,000 microfibers are released. … Rethink donating to a charity shop. Most charities are nowhere near being able to sell the glut of donations. Many items of clothing are shipped abroad, often to Africa or Haiti or eastern Europe, where textile skills have been lost because of too much of our rubbish… We're not donating, we're dumping. So we should only donate to charity something someone will be able to profit from. Or seek out a skilled dressmaker to redesign a garment that is too small or too large as a new garment for you. (Taking freely from the Guardian February 24, 2021.)
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