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Selvedge Magazine #69 - Millinery
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Maiwa
Selvedge Magazine #69 - Millinery
$29.95
This Spring we cast our eye over the world of hats and the thinking behind sculptural design. Travelling to Venice, we discover a world of textile treasures. Further afield we explore the myriad histories and people behind indigo. All in all we cross continents, processes and skills leading to an issue beyond all scale and proportion.
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Wild Fibers Magazine Volume 10 - Issue 2
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Visit product page →After decades of wars, bombings, invasions, and unimaginable hardships, northern Afghanistan is rebuilding its communities with natural fiber - sericulture, to be exact. As an alternative to growing poppies, women in Mazar-e-Sharif are once again beginning to weave and grow silkworms, thanks to a project created by the US government that now boasts more than 2,000 Afghani women. In the only issue to almost exclusively focus on one country, Afghanistan's wild fibers illustrates its softer side.
Fibers/Animals: Hebridean Sheep, Silkworms, Cashmere Goats Places: Afghanistan; Nevada; Scotland; Idaho
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Wild Fibers Magazine Volume 10 - Issue 1
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Visit product page →There are countless do-good fiber projects throughout the world, but few have the dedication of the Rocking Yak. Founder Bret Colledge takes us into his world in Shangri La, China, were women are spinning their futures with yak fiber. Around the corner in Myanmar, the women on Inle Lake spend up to two years, harvesting, reeling. and weaving fiber from lotus plants which was originally spun into sacred garments for monks. On the mountain top in Jebel Shams, Oman, (cover) a handsome goat waits patiently for the photographer to get him into focus, and so begins the story of goat fibers and camel harnesses in the Middle East.
Places:Shangri-La, China; Myanmar/Burma; California; Nizwa, Oman; EnglandFibers/Animals: Lotus Fiber, Yak, Goat, Wool, Cotton
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Wild Fibers Magazine 2019 Issue - Life in the Russian Arctic
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Visit product page →Travel to Russia's Wrangel Island, three hundred miles north of the Arctic Circle. Known as the polar bear nursery of the world, approximately one thousand muskoxen live on this remote, yet surprisingly colorful tundra (in the summer.) Learn how muskox are adapting to climate change, and the soaring price of their precious qiviut.
other features:
* Where to find some of the finest American cashmere.
* Drop-spinning on a volcanic island in Indonesia
* Resurrecting flax in the Pacific northwest
* Valais blacknose sheep, the "cutest sheep in the world"
* Looking back fifty years with Schacht Spindle Co. and Oomingmak, The Musk Ox Producers Co-op
* and so much more
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Wild Fibers Magazine - 15th Anniversary Issue
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Visit product page →Discover the world of wild fibers with our special 15th anniversary issue!
Travel to South Georgia in the shadows of Antarctica and learn about one man's efforts to develop seal wool into a luxury fiber in the late 1700s. Learn about an extraordinary non-profit in nothern Madagascar, trying to battle corruption and illegal trade in rosewood by cultivating wild silkworms. Jump on board The Livestock Conservancy's new Shave'em to Save'em Program to help nearly 20 endangered sheep breeds, and much, much more.
