Textile Art & Weavers

For 15-years, textile artist, Rachel Duvall, has worked on her intricate and complex weavings, which explore the tension between structure and the handmade. TLmag spoke to the artist about her practice.

For our S/S 2021 issue: TLmag35: Tactle/Textile/Texture, Anniina Koivu, guest-editor of TLmag35, interviewed Hella Jongerius about her innovative practice that has recently focused on the potential of weaving and 3D weaving in design, architecture and science.

TLmag interviewed Simone Pheulpin for its S/S 2021 issue, TLmag35: Tactile/Textile/Texture. The French artist, who received Special Mention from the Loewe Craft Prize in 2018, opens an exhibition of her folded, fabric sculptures at the Musée des arts decoratifs in Paris on December 7th.

TLmag speaks with Roosmarijn Pallandt, who creates multi-faceted work that echoes and embodies themes of recollection, myth and transformation.

Christoph Hefti is a textile designer whose playful and curious practise spans decades in and beyond the realm of fashion. In this extensive interview, TLmag catches up with Hefti to talk about his latest solo show at Dries van Noten’s ‘Little House’ in LA.

Kiki van Eijk’s current retrospective exhibition at the Textiel Museum in Tilburg brings fresh insight into the artist’s creative imagination.

Masataka Hosoo, innovator and president of HOSOO, a Kyoto-based traditional kimono textile maker, is bringing Nishijin-ori weaving techniques and textiles to the forefront of the design and fashion scenes worldwide. TLmag sat down with him to talk about HOSOO Studies: an ongoing R&D project that aims to create a modern perspective surrounding the relationship between human beings and textiles since ancient times.

From the nearly 18,000 objects in its collection, Hasselt Fashion Museum selected 170 items of clothing for their latest exhibition. Applying the principles of object-oriented research, the museum navigates through various codes to crack their language: form, fabric, vanitas, identity, and stories. 

Commemorating 13 years since Noa Eshkol’s passing, TLmag revisits Gunia Nowik’s personal journey to Eshkol’s historic home in Holon (Israel) which was – and still is – the center of collaborative study for the Eshkol-Wachman Movement Notation (EWMN) and Eshkol’s dance repertoire.

Knit! by Kvadrat is a series of work by 28 different designers exploring the potential of knitted textiles by Kvadrat Febrik. Knit! debuts in Copenhagen during 3 Days of Design (3–5 September 2020) physically and as a digital, interactive exhibition that can be viewed worldwide.

On her old wooden loom, Marie Hazard weaves stories with miles of thread. Through a long and complex process, she brings together traditional hand weaving techniques and digital printing technology to explore contemporary social and cultural conditions.

For the next two months, pieces from the MANIERA collection find a new home in De Beir House, an early example of architect’s Huib Hoste’s modernist designs.