Product news: London print designers Eley Kishimoto teamed up with Icelandic design collective Vík Prjónsdóttir for DesignMarch in Reykjavík last week, where they presented a seal-shaped blanket inspired by an Icelandic folk tale. More »
Tag: textiles
Seal Pelt Remix by Eley Kishimoto
Wooden Mesh by
Diego Vencato
Italian industrial designer Diego Vencato has created a collection of wooden textiles (+ slideshow). More »
The Picnic by Raw Edges
for Kvadrat
London-based design duo Raw Edges arranged hundreds of fabric ribbons around the edge of their display stand for Danish textile manufacturer Kvadrat at this year's Stockholm Design Week. More »
Competition: five copies of Material Futures
to be won
Competition: Dezeen is giving readers the chance to win one of five copies of the inaugral issue of Material Futures, a new publication about textile research. More »
Ready Made Curtain by
Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec
Cologne 2013: French designers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec have come up with a DIY kit for making curtains using a hanging cord that winds up like a guitar string. More »
Nodi Contemporanei by
Loredana Bonora
Product news: every table, chair, lamp and light switch in this furniture collection by Italian designer Loredana Bonora is covered in crocheted yarns of cotton, PVC, plastic tape and even washing lines. More »
Knitted tree and creatures by Donna Wilson
for the Stepney Green Design Collection
East London designer Donna Wilson will contribute a special installation to Dezeen's Stepney Green Design Collection made up of a 1.8 metre-high knitted tree with a selection of her soft-toy creatures living in it. More »
Cryptographer & Encoded Textiles
by Raw Color
Im Blanky by Studio NMinusOne
and Rodolphe el-Khoury
This blanket is embroidered with tiny sensors so it can watch you sleeping. More »
Arab Seasons by Bokja
Designed in Hackney: Omi pendant Lights
by Naomi Paul
Designed in Hackney: these crochet pendant lamps by Dalston designer Naomi Paul are made of mercerised cotton and surplus silk from the fashion industry. More »
Movie: golden spider-silk cape
by Simon Peers and Nicholas Godley
In this movie from the V&A museum in London, Simon Peers and Nicholas Godley talk about the cape they made by harvesting silk from over a million wild spiders in Madagascar. The silk is naturally golden in colour and the spiders take just a week to replenish their supply once released back into the wild. More »
Making a Silk Screen
by Nina Levett
Austrian designer Nina Levett mixes imagery from punk and pop culture into her designs for textiles, wallpaper and ceramics. More »
Spider-silk cape by Simon Peers
and Nicholas Godley
Alchemy by Cristian Zuzunaga at The Temporium
The Temporium: you can get 15% off Cristian Zuzunaga's new series of digitally printed scarves at our Christmas shop The Temporium, open until Christmas Eve in London. More »