Raija Jokinen

 

Finnish textile artist Raija Jokinen uses flax and hand and machine embroidery to create fascinating pieces based on the human body, visualising our connection and part in the natural world.

Human Touch Clothing

 

Human Touch was  founded in 2023 by Juliet Seger, a tailor, clothing engineer and sustainability designer, and Christina Albrecht, from theoretical foundations, conceived of in 2020 during Juliet’s masters degree in Design for Change at Edinburgh Collage of Art. 

What started as a conceptual project has evolved into a brand, launching at Berlin Fashion Week in February this year. The brand aims to show the disconnect between the omnipresence of clothes and the production processes that are fundamentally powered by human labour. 

"Our design process is a very practical one. HUMAN TOUCH garments follow a normal sewing process with the difference that three to four times per minute the machinist dips her fingers in paint, therein directly printing the fingerprints from the manufacturing process onto the fabric. Areas of a garment that require more handling appear more densely painted. Overall the resulting pattern is quite dynamic, a combination of vague strokes and actual distinguishable fingerprints. To counterbalance the “messy” print design we choose silhouettes that are clearly legible: collared shirts, denim jeans, clean cut coats – items with clearly defined and recognizable tailoring details. Afterwards we heat the garment to fix the textile paint to the fibres making them wearable and washable." Human Touch

Lildenimjean

De-constructed, reconstructed repaired denim by Japanese company Lindenimjean who use sashiko techniques to make incredible garments. 

 

All that remains . . .

 

Left in a field and decomposed for about a 20 year period, this is a pair of Wrangler jeans is now down to its toxic skeleton of leaving behind only synthetic fibers and the metal hardware. It is facinating to see what the world cannot digest and it is plastic! Found near Sacramento by @darnvintage about 6 years ago at an estate sale and now part of the Wrangler Archives. (thanks)

Mary Shelby

 

Mary Shelby’s fascination with buttons began after seeing her mother’s button box. As her own collection grew, along with an interest in quiltmaking and design, Shelby imagined a quilt made entirely of buttons. Using 11,923 flat buttons attached to what was likely a white tablecloth with a lace trim, she adapted a Friendship Quilt pattern published in the Kansas City Star in 1938.

Cassie Arnold

Cassie Arnold's exploration of femininity through her knitted mum bra series.

Jonathon Baldock II

 

Jonathan Baldock has also makes performative costumes as part of his art. These costumes were made for The Kokoro Dance Theatre Society's LSD 'Love Sex and Death'