Selvedge Magazine: Issue 118 Hand in Hand

Buy Issue 118 Hand in Hand of Selvedge magazine. This issue focuses on the importance of teamwork and working hand-in-hand with others. For instance, Nicola Miles explores the special relationship between teacher and student in her article about her teacher and mentor, Lou Taylor. Successful collaborations come in many forms and involve different levels of cooperation. As Elizabeth King, Head of Costume Production at the Royal Opera House in London, explains, collaborations with more rigid external parameters require more skilled negotiations. For costume designer Sandy Powell to realise a director’s vision, great insight and intuition, and even greater communication, are required. On a recent tour of India, the editor observed that the most successful collaborations between artisans and designers were those in which both parties were equally respected, a position of strength from which they could overcome the challenges facing the craft community.

What is Selvedge magazine?

Polly Leonard launched Selvedge magazine in 2004 to celebrate our cerebral and sensual addiction to cloth while promoting skilfully made and carefully considered textiles. Every issue features talented makers and their lives and stories. Polly believes the most interesting and evocative textile stories deserve to be shown in the best possible light and has thus created a magazine that is an aesthetically beautiful experience.