The Woman Of Oaxaca
In Oaxaca, textiles are born not only from technique, but from women who have learned to read fibre, time, the body and territory as part of the same language. PEOPLE — OAXACA, MEXICO There...
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Stories of territories, people and living knowledge.
The Body Is The Loom
In the highlands of Chiapas, weaving begins long before the textile takes form. It begins with the body — with tension, movement, memory and a knowledge carried from one generation to another. PEOPLE —...
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When Textile Becomes Language
Olga de Amaral, Sheila Hicks and Magdalena Abakanowicz For centuries, textiles have carried knowledge. They have protected the body, marked identity, travelled between generations and preserved ways of understanding material through spinning, weaving, knotting...
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Between Generations
How knowledge moves forward In our research across textile territories, we often encounter knowledge that exists not because it has been formally recorded, but because someone learned it from someone else. A way of...
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Nomads
Fibre shaped by movement In our research across textile territories, some fibres lead us towards ways of life shaped by movement. In Ladakh, in the Himalayas, our exploration of yak wool brings us into...
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Dyers
Where material becomes colour In our research across textile territories, colour often begins long before it reaches the textile. It can begin with a plant, a root, a bark, a flower, a mineral or...
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Growers
Kala Cotton and the drylands of Kutch Our research into fibres often begins by asking a simple question: why does this material exist here? In Kutch, Gujarat, that question leads to Kala Cotton. An...
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Pastoralists
Where Our Himalayan Wool Begins Before the fibre reaches our hands, it belongs to a much larger living system. The Himalayan wool we work with begins in high-altitude landscapes, where pastoral communities have developed...
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The Thread Begins By Hand
Hand spinning in the Himalayas Before cloth, there is thread. And before thread, there is fibre held between the hands. Across Ladakh, in the Indian Himalayas, hand spinning has long been part of everyday...
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