People are in love with their Vera scarves, as you will see if you search Flickr. My mother had Vera scarves, so nostalgia may be mixed in with my addiction to the strange geometry.
The Vera scarf.
September 22, 2008
textiles
Rodarte
September 14, 2008
Rock-influenced mix of ethereal fantasy and rough deconstruction by New York designers Kate and Laura Mulleavy whose label, Rodarte, is the paradigmatic example of this look.
“Is it so horrible that it’s good, or is just so horrible that it’s horrible?”
September 12, 2008
That is a common question in the Ouno studio. At Marc Jacobs it seems they key to the creative proces lies in travelling around the studio a lot on a rolling office chair.
Vintage silk scarf pillows. Make your own.
September 11, 2008
Yesterday Apartment Therapy featured some pillows made from vintage scarves by Madeline Weinrib (directly below) and sheesh, they run from US$900-$1200. You can make your own. AT recommends this tutorial from Martha Stewart Living but we’ve also included our own below, because 2 tutorials are better than one.
Functional weavings by Diane Thorp
September 9, 2008
It would be a cliche but probably also true to say weaving is an endangered or at least increasingly uncommon art, so I’m always excited when I see being done, especially locally. Diane Thorp is a weaver from Vancouver Island whose work has been widely exhibited and has been featured in Fiberarts Magazine and other places.
Fur hammock
September 7, 2008
Fur hammock by Bless, the design collaboration of Desiree Heiss and Ines Kaag, who work out of Paris and Berlin. The fur is probably not recycled, but it’d be a great piece if it were.
Make your own Japanese shop banners.
August 24, 2008
These textile shop banners are common in Japan. Given how easy they are to install and how much more beautiful they are than typical signage, it seems strange that they haven’t been widely copied.
What to do with all those doilies
August 22, 2008
This somehow manages to de-doilify doilies which is almost achieving the impossible. It makes the lace more reminiscent of bark or lichen or something from the bottom of the ocean—another example of how re-purposing a thing can actually improve on the original.
Ice.
August 16, 2008
On a hot day in Vancouver, I was thinking of this hotel. The Jukkasjarvi Ice Hotel in Sweden is rebuilt every year, always to a different design but always from ice and always with blankets of reindeer hide (sustainably produced nearby).
