10 years ago, Jane Solomon of FabricNation, Tracy Rushmere of Shine-Shine , me of Skinny laMinx, and Melissa Kerkhoff of Lula Fabrics, all had a textile collective that we called the Threadcount Collective. At the time, the textile industry in Cape Town was falling apart, and so the four of us would get together once …
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Threadcount Collective Reunite
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Making Friday: Proceeding with weaving
As you can see by these ratty attempts laid out like a barn cat’s trophies, I’ve been fiddling around with weaving on little looms at home for a while now. I’ve learned a bit on my own, but after visiting the Cape Guild of Weavers’ show a couple of weeks ago, I realised it was …
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Ooh! ooh!
Looky look! My Herds fabric is on the cover of Visi magazine! It’s one shot in a lovely story featuring textiles by local designers, and guess what? Threadcount Collective members feature heavily! See Shine Shine, Fabricnation & Lula Fabrics all strutting their stuff (and see more of their stuff by visiting the Threadcount website, and …
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