LDF-mint EXPLORES

"Mint Explores" brings together the influence of fashion, jewellery-making, materila science and indigenous craft-making in a spectacular confluence traditions and design.

New European Textile Craft

Hybrids is now at Johanssen gallery in Berlin.

http://www.johanssen-gallery.com/exhibition/current/

Direktorenhaus presents the new show of 4 young textile designers: The 5th Element. New European Textile Craft. From 6th of July until the 30th of July 2011 the Direktorenhaus changes into a mazy wintergarden of knitted materials, woven textiles, organic objects and hand-stitched fabrics.

The exhibition is showcasing for the first time works of Signe Emdal (Kopenhagen), Hao-Ni Tsai (London), Ruth Duff (Glasgow) and Izumi Sato (Stockholm) in Berlin.

CENTRAL SAINT MARTINS DEGREE SHOWS 2011

 SOUTHAMPTON ROW/ INNOVATION CENTRE

Private view: Fri 17 June, 6-10 pm

Alumni, family & friends: Sat 18June, 12-8 pm

Public: 20-23 June, 12-8 pm ( closed Sun 19 June )

"Hybrids" ...at Ventura Lambrate

• Participating the exhibition at Ventura Lambrate in Milan

"H" family

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20 Hybrids
The celebration of Eastern plants & Western animals.

Materials - Plants

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• Gathering these plants from Taiwan, which named Arega Engleri Beccari, Matsum fibre, banana fibre, pineapple fibre, ramie, loofah, millet , hemp... and so on. 

How can the juxtaposition of material and culture inform a new textile craft?

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Exploring the possibility of transforming these oriental plant fibres into innovative textiles by combining the transformed fabrics with animal fur, which come from western countries.

The objective of the cross cultural approach is to creat a link between the east and west cultures also give a new aesthtic and value to the natural materials with a contemporary approach.