Selvedge Magazine: Issue 128 Routes

Buy Issue 128 Routes of Selvedge magazine. Trade tariffs, which raise the price of imported goods to protect domestic industries, have dominated headlines throughout 2025. Yet this economic strategy is nothing new. During the Industrial Revolution, Britain levied steep duties on imported Indian cottons to protect its developing textile industry.

Trade and textiles have always been intertwined. This issue explores the East–West maritime trade that has shaped material culture for centuries. From South Asian and Middle Eastern dhows in the early modern period to container ships today, cloth has been central to these cargoes. Textiles have functioned as both commodity and currency, carrying economic weight and cultural meaning. 

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.

This magazine is available in PAPER format. 

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