Felecia Davis, an associate professor at the Stuckeman Center for Design Computing at Pennsylvania State University, with textile panels she developed. (Rebecca Kiger for The Washington Post) Felecia Davis is pioneering all-fiber construction materials, clothes that monitor your health — and much more By Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson November 15, 2022 […]
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The Fashion Figures We Lost in 2022
Katie Gallager, Fashion Designer, 35 Katie Gallagher, a black-clad blonde from Pennsylvania with a talent for pattern-making, was being buzzed about even before she graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design and moved to New York. The central dichotomy in her work was the balance between what she called […]
Helsinki Design Museum presents work by Antti and Vuokko Nurmesniemi
A vivid orange Helsinki subway seat and an legendary timber sauna stool are between the items in this exhibition of do the job by structure duo and pair Antti and Vuokko Nurmesniemi. Numerous performs by the late inside architect Antti Nurmesniemi and textile designer Vuokko Nurmesniemi are introduced in this […]
How Designer Blankets Became a Canvas for Textile Craft
The moment, not so a lot of luxurious moons ago, reassuringly significant blankets in a delicate Nancy Meyers palette of cream, ecru, slate, or even espresso sat neatly atop our crisp white bedsheets (or have been artfully thrown above the most current arrival from the 1stDibs seating section). But are […]
15+ textile scholarships available for undergraduates and grad students
Investigate Park Triangle, N.C. – Scholarships in multiple textile-associated disciplines are offered for the 2023-2024 educational 12 months – and all obtainable by submitting out a one application variety. The AATCC (American Affiliation of Textile Chemists and Colorists) Foundation’s scholarship and fellowship method encompasses $100,000 in whole funding. College students […]
Braiding tech options for innovative biomedical textile structures
Lower-density braided textile [Photo courtesy of Cortland Biomedical] Generating informed selections involving higher-density, low-density and 3D braiding gives higher style and design overall flexibility for implantable textile elements that are fit-for-goal. Maddy Moncla, Michelle Lishner and Zachary Robbins, Cortland Biomedical Biomedical textiles have the likely to permit decreased-profile healthcare units, […]