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SEVEN COLUMNS · THREE TIMES A WEEK
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A portrait. What making does to life. »»»
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One technique, one material, one reason to start »»»
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Yarn objects living in real interiors »»»
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The thing makers think but don't always say »»»
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One trend, one find, one strong opinion »»»
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People, craft, community »»»
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One obscure craft word, seen differently »»»
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Raw color.
There is a version of this trend that starts with Pantone declaring white the color of the year and ends with everyone nodding politely.
Market.
Laetitia Dalbies makes fruit. Not as a metaphor. Her crochet tomatoes have weight and blush.
Texture.
The cold rooms are leaving. Polished concrete, bare shelves, surfaces that echo... interior design spent a decade chasing the void and has now, quietly, reversed course.
City.
In Amsterdam, someone decided that a listening bar was a perfectly reasonable place to knit. She was right.
Tokyo, but slower.
Asako Sano's studio in Tokyo does not feel like Tokyo.
Rooms You Feel.
There is a room that looks good in photos and a room that makes people cross it to touch something.
Re-cycle.
Walk past the finished objects. Go straight for the fiber content labels.
Acrylic.
Most of us have committed a little fiber snobbery at some point. The small wince at the mention of acrylic.
Waulking.
Waulking is the ancient practice of finishing handwoven wool by soaking it, then pounding and kneading it until the fibers lock together and the cloth becomes something it wasn't before.
Mohair.
Saara Autere's apartment in Helsinki sounds like a concert. The album covers on her walls are not decoration.
Beads & Glitter.
The method is older than it looks. String your beads onto the yarn before you cast on, warp your loom, or make your first chain.
Ultracrepidarian.
You are mid-row, counting under your breath, and they lean over. Have you tried a different needle size?
Collected.
There is a shift happening in the way people think about textile work. Not as something made for function, not as a hobby with a finished object at the end...
Fog.
Neringa Rūkė starts every morning with knitting. Not to produce. To think. Her brand, Rūkė Knit, is named for fog: layered, soft, and quietly powerful.
Craft Retreat.
You already have three people in mind. You've mentioned it once, maybe twice, in a group chat that went quiet.
Art Yarn.
Art yarn is handspun yarn that has no interest in being uniform. Thick and thin.
Flowers.
Flowers have been worked into textiles for as long as there have been hands to hold a hook or needles.
Festivals.
There is a moment, usually ten minutes in, when the noise and the color and the smell of it all lands at once.
Indigo,
Just outside Dublin, Kathryn Davey is mapping color. Not on a screen. In trees.
Steek.
A steek is a column of extra stitches added to a piece of stranded colorwork knitting specifically so you can cut it open later.
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