Selvedge Magazine: Issue 129 Repeat

Buy Issue 129 Repeat of Selvedge magazine. The overwhelming majority of textile techniques are built on the repetition of small gestures: stitches, loops, picks, and marks. When we concentrate on each one, something remarkable happens. Our minds quiet, and our everyday troubles are set aside. We are absorbed in the rhythm of the process for a while, and the craft becomes a form of meditation. Like music, it is not only the gestures themselves that matter, but the spaces between them. In print, this becomes negative space; in knitting, it is tension. It is the subtle interplay of movement and pause, gesture and spacing, that gives a handmade object its vitality, something industrial manufacture can never truly replicate. 

This issue spotlights makers from around the world who focus on the power of repeated gesture, including Dahyeon Yoo from South Korea, London-based Sayan Chanda and Richard McVetis, and the duo Doyel Joshi and Neil Ghose Balser of HowAreYouFeeling Studio. Together, their work embodies the Aristotelian idea that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. 

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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