SUBMITTED BY MAE AGUINALDO oused in an old clay tile factory, the Jatiwangi Art Factory (JAF) is located in Jatisura village in West Java, Indonesia, eight hours away from Jakarta. Since 2007, it has hosted many types of artists from different…
SUBMITTED BY IRENE VERMEULEN n the Township of DuNoon, just north of Cape Town, Binky Newman is passionately working on one of her new projects, setting up a basket-making workshop. Binky is a successful entrepreneur already. Her export business Design Afrika…
SUBMITTED BY IRENE VERMEULEN or over 10 years, Nosakhele and Phumla have been making a living creating beadwork. These women are part of 450 bead artisans living in the township of Khayelitsha, near Cape Town. For Monkeybiz, an non-profit export company,…
SUBMITTED BY ALICE DANA SPENCER affe Fassett is one of the world’s leading and most popular textile artists. An accomplished painter and illustrator, he is mainly known for his expertise in a variety of textile arts such as needlepoint, knitwear and quilting,…
SUBMITTED BY IRENE VERMEULEN An old tram factory in Woodstock houses the light and airy studio and workshop of Clementina van der Walt. A group of skilled ceramic craftsmen are working the clay and carefully finishing the products. At the time…
TEXT: MANIKA DHAMA Returning from an inspiring trip to Morocco and finding herself at her family’s haveli (a large home with a courtyard) in Delhi’s Jonapur Village, self-taught textile and furniture designer Kuldeep Kaur had a serendipitous moment. She had been…
BY KEITH RECKER Natural dye master Michele Wipplinger shares her indigo recipe with HAND/EYE readers Michele Wipplinger, founder of Seattle-based Earthues, is a natural dye expert extraordinaire. The endless range of subtle, sophisticated colors she produces with all natural plant and…
BY ELAINE LIPSON Lipson’s Slow Cloth Manifesto spins a new approach to textiles A couple of years ago, I started a blog about textile art, craft, and culture, intending to explore and frame a way of working with textiles that reflected…