Charlotte Farrant

 

So taken was I with the work of Charlotte Farrant this week, that I was desperate to drive six hours to Birmingham this weekend to see it in person at the NECC. However my plans are thwarted by a broken van and impossible workload, but I do hope to catch it on its travels at some point. Charlotte acheived a First class BA(hons) Hand Embroidery from the Royal School of Needlework and won the Hand and Lock Student prize in 2025.

This is her Codification of Stitch coat Charlotte was inspired by the life and work of Anne Lister commonality known as Gentleman Jack. Charlotte’s project translated Anne’s iconic phrase "I am not made like any other I have seen, I dare believe myself to be different from any other who exists” into a coded system of embroidery for her stunning stitched coat, a classification method for stitch, resulting in a code which can be used within embroidery, creating hidden messages represented through the stitches used within a piece of work.

Ilann Vogt

Above: Antigone de J. Anouilh

Ilann Vogt weaves stories into garments, art pieces and sculpture, the book is transformed into 'text-ile' the words wearable on the skin. 

"I have the ability to create very rich draperies and shapes that become supports for provoking a sensation from the material thus intertwined. This allows the reading of a text in a fraction of a second of glance, to read without reading in a way: to each book its own universe ," Ilann Vogt

Above:  1,2,3 Ulysses de James Joyce  Below: Madame Bovary. De G Flaubert. 

Above: The castle, from F Kafka

Lee Jimin

 

Korean artist Lee Jimin has been making bread, incredible, three dimensional, glowing, translucent textile bread. Click on link to see her process and how this looks when it moves!

Nicky Vollebregt

 

"For SMOCK I studied how textiles can be shaped by implementing drawstrings in woven textiles. Precisely pre-calculated drawstring patterns are woven into the fabric, enclosing different silhouettes, styles, sizes and functions in a single piece of cloth. By pulling these, the piece can adapt to changing wants and needs.

Smocking is historically used to shape valuable textiles without cutting into them, making them easier to alter and reuse. For SMOCK, I studied this how this way of shaping textiles, and this mindset behind producing and consuming, could better find its place in today's world." Nicky Vollebregt

Working at TC2 Wearable Senses Lab, Nicky developed the main chunk of samples and explorations for this project combining hand-stitching and multi-layer machine embroidery the piece at the start and below is the result of all this work but as Nicky says this is the start, it will be very interesting to see what she develops from here.

Nosapluna

 

'Nosapluna' is a label created by four students from Helsinki Finland

Their mission is creating everything from scratch, weaving the fabric, crafting it into garments the beauty of hand created is tangible and all pervasive.

Amy Revier

The Silent Traveller is an ongoing project by Amy Revier honouring literature through textile and clothing creation, a study of the intersection between clothing and literature, exploring how the two operate as parallel forms of travel. Each reader’s suit set is paired with an antiquarian travel memoir, drawing its colour and sensibility from the text. Inspired by Chiang Yee’s memoir ‘The Silent Traveller in the Yorkshire Dales’ (1941), this collection honours the timeless nature of his artistic and literary practice, an homage to the beauty and sensitivity of moving through the world with consideration and care.

Edition VI winter sets in Yorkshire corduroy are made for & available @bluemountainschool

French Handkerchiefs mid 1800's

 

A selection of embroidered French linen handkerchiefs from the early-mid 1800's, just for the stupendous skill and beauty.