All tagged Textiles

Tin Embroidery

A heritage craft from the women of the Miao minority group in Guizhou Province, PR China. Miao women of Jianhe County weave cloth on wooden looms in their homes using cotton threads. They use the indigo plant to dye their woven white cloth to create dark hues that will showcase their tin embroidery patterns. Indigo, black and red are the traditional colours used as a backdrop to showcase their intricate tin embroidery.

Harris Tweed

There is nowhere like it, the Outer Hebrides, Scotland's archipelago on the edge of Europe.  Where nature, people and place coexist in harmony. Where the sense of community is as deep-rooted as the island bedrock itself.  Where origins are everything and original is every day.  Where the unique Harris Tweed story began more than a century ago and continues to this day.