Posted on Sun, July 15th, 2018 in Writing »
"Real Physical Labor, Material Understanding & the Wisdom of the Weaver's Hands" forthcoming Hungarian translation in Disegno: Journal of Design Culture Read more [...]
Can That Be Taught?
Posted on Sun, July 1st, 2018 in Writing »
A Companion on Contemporary Craft (Wiley Blackwell: 2019)
Textual Agency: pitfalls & potentials
Posted on Sun, July 1st, 2018 in Writing »
forthcoming chapter (Bloomsbury: 2019)
Hildur Bjarnadottir
Posted on Wed, January 17th, 2018 in Writing »
article published with Norwegian Crafts (2018)
Knitting after Making
Posted on Thu, July 13th, 2017 in Writing »
TEXTILES, COMMUNITY & CONTROVERSY (Bloomsbury: 2019)
Christien Meindertsma
Posted on Fri, June 9th, 2017 in Writing »
BY JESSICA HEMMINGS Dutch designer Christien Meindertsma is something of a sleuth. “I work like a journalist,” explains the Rotterdam-based designer who has become well known for projects that record the traceability [...]
Kimsooja
Posted on Sat, April 29th, 2017 in Writing »
BY JESSICA HEMMINGS Kimsooja Korean born, New York and Paris-based, artist Kimsooja first began working with textiles in 1983 when she started to sew using her late grandmother’s clothing. Today […]
Liza Lou
Posted on Fri, March 10th, 2017 in Writing »
BY JESSICA HEMMINGS The glass beads American artist Liza Lou has worked with since the 1990s have been deployed in incredible feats of personal discipline and attention to detail [...]
Unlearning Optical Illusions
Posted on Fri, December 30th, 2016 in Writing »
BY JESSICA HEMMINGS Unlearning Optical Illusions is Toril Johannessen’s iterative reflection on textile manufacturing. Not that this is where she began in 2013 [...]
Mending Fashion
Posted on Tue, December 6th, 2016 in Writing »
BY JESSICA HEMMINGS The fashion industry is in need of repair. Familiar criticisms are easy to level: overproduction of low quality goods manufactured in unacceptable working conditions has driven down quality in favor of volume. Far harder to come by are clear solutions [...]
Philosophy: Korean label Oma
Posted on Fri, January 15th, 2016 in Writing »
BY JESSICA HEMMINGS “I started to think about precious things,” explains the Korean designer Oma when I inquire about the origins of her eponymous design label. Based in Seoul [...]
J. Morgan Puett: Labor Portraits
Posted on Mon, August 24th, 2015 in Writing » Articles »
BY JESSICA HEMMINGS Mildred’s Lane is an artistic experiment conceived by American J. Morgan Puett located in rural Pennsylvania. The one hundred acre site hosts residencies and fellowships informed by […]
Running Craft
Posted on Sat, June 13th, 2015 in Writing » Articles »
BY JESSICA HEMMINGS Running provides a small way to reconnect with time. Perhaps it is here that the similarities between running and craft begin. When so much of daily life […]
Kustaa Saksi
Posted on Tue, March 24th, 2015 in Writing » Articles »
BY JESSICA HEMMINGS “My world is a graphic world,” explains the Amsterdam-based Finnish designer Kustaa Saksi of his approach to weaving. Treating the loom as a “magic printer” Saksi’s recent collection of jacquard weavings [...]
Gabrielle Soyer
Posted on Tue, February 24th, 2015 in Writing » Articles »
BY JESSICA HEMMINGS When the Paris-based Swedish designer Gabrielle Soyer bought two chain stitched textiles from Kashmiri merchants while travelling in Goa, India twenty-six years ago she had little idea of the impact the purchase would later have on her life [...]
Faig Ahmed in Surface Design Journal
Posted on Fri, August 1st, 2014 in Writing » Articles »
BY JESSICA HEMMINGS As a child, Faig Ahmed once decided to entertain himself by rearranging the motifs he found in the carpet on the floor of his grandmother’s home. Not […]
Toshiko MacAdam
Posted on Mon, June 16th, 2014 in Writing » Articles »
BY JESSICA HEMMINGS Toshiko Horiuchi MacAdam explains the crucial turning point in her textile practice came the day two children innocently clambered onto her art [...]
