ARTS & CRAFTS
Traditional techniques are being updated to create beautiful and sustainable objects for our homes.
Jessica Salter rounds up the new-gen makers.
THE MEDITATIVE TEXTILE ARTISTS
In contrast to fast fashion, a cohort of female weavers are doing their best to showcase a new slow and steady approach to producing. “Craft is more than just a way of making things,” says the award-winning artist Maria Sigma, who weaves her textiles on a loom in her studio in southeast London. “For me, it’s a way of thinking and living sustainably and meaningfully.” Her zero-waste philosophy means that any loose ends of the undyed British wool that she works with are reworked into the next project.
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