Wild Textiles: Grown, Foraged, Found

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The pilgrim Felix Fabri, from the end of the fifteenth century, described the prayers conducted by pilgrims on the banks of the river, dipped in the waters dressed in special clothing brought particularly for this purpose. more Survey of the re-use and re-cycling of textiles across the Roman Empire, based on archaeological and documentary (papyrological) sources. At Sarah Burns Patterns we believe in using natural processes that are kind to the environment and reflect the beauty of nature and the world around us.

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This study provides new data regarding textile production and the funerary rituals, offering for the first time a picture of textiles produced in the area. Sarah Burns Patterns believe that we should only have things in our home, which are kind and beautiful to us and to the planet. Alice is based in Saltaire, West Yorkshire and she exhibits and teaches nationally and internationally.

After the site became sacred, traditions developed that were associated with the holy eatures of the water and its curative properties. more A review of the textile finds from the 1995 season of excavation at the Roman port of Berenike in Egypt. As a result, each bundle of dandelion stems, bramble fibre or hand processed flax is enormously precious by its scarcity and the meaning attached to it through its sourcing and hand-processing. Qasr al-Yahud, situated on the west bank of the Jordan River, 5 miles north of the Dead Sea and east of Jericho, features the Monastery of Saint John the Baptist, believed to be the traditional site of the Baptism of Jesus1 and has a centuries-long tradition of ‘washing of the lepers’.

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more Survey of the re-use and re-cycling of clothing and textiles across the Roman Empire, based on evidence from archaeological sites and the ancient documentary record. Alice Fox, artist and author of Natural Processes in Textile Art, works with found, foraged, gathered and grown materials to create fabulous textile pieces that are inspired by, and made from, nature. Textile artist Alice Fox shows how to work with found, foraged, gathered and grown materials to create fabulous textile pieces that are inspired by, and made from, nature.She uses found objects, gathered materials and natural processes, bringing different materials together to form tactile surfaces and structures.

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Alice was commissioned by the clothing company TOAST and Kettles Yard, Cambridge for their Re-New project in 2019. I didn't find this 'instructional' but rather it is a launching place to explore your environment in different and meaningful ways or to approach your artist practice in new ways.more First impression of walking down a 'street' in a gallery at Katoen Natie, Antwerp, lined with figures clothed in complete late antique garments - and the problem of naming them as their contemporaries would. It shows a lot of unconventional foraged, found materials being turned into art, not particularly functional objects. The textiles are made of linen and cotton, sometimes decorated with wool tapestry, brocade and selfbands. Establishing her allotment garden as a source of materials for her work has provided a space where Alice can experiment, exploring the potential of what grows there, planted and wild, as well as other materials found on the plot.

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more An account of the replacement of flax as the main clothing fibre in Lower Nubia in Napatan times with cotton during the Meroitic period. This paper summarises the results of the TRAMA (Textiles in Roman Archaeology: Methods and Analysis) project, which aims to analyse Roman textiles from Venetia.Byzantine and Medieval authors attributed the waters of the Jordan river a special power to heal lepers who bathed in them, especially at the spot where Jesus was baptized. We’re proud to be part of a kinder, slower way of making textiles and, by changing the way we do things I hope we can make fabrics that are beautiful, honest and kind. In her book Wild Textiles, artist Alice Fox shows how to work with found, foraged, gathered and grown materials.