The Materials Culture Blog
Designing Summer 2020 - The Materials
Before releasing the TMDCo. Summer '20 collection, I wanted to share a little bit about my inspiration and the process of designing. The collection sparked from a post from @ted on Instagram, which my husband showed me one night when we were sitting on the couch. Here it is: "These colorful bits and bobs are actually tiny grains of sand! By using a 3D microscope, you can see the shell fragments, coral, volcano pieces and more that make up a beach on the Hawaiian island of Maui. "There's a magical world behind reality," says scientist and photographer Gary Greenberg. "And that...
Embroidery Q&A with Designer Arielle Salkin
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"I get a lot of texture inspiration from nature and sometimes just very close-up looks at things people would often overlook... My embroideries often mimic these little moments of visual interest."
Indigo: Ancient History and the Future of Fashion - An Interview with Amy Taylor (Part 2)
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"Indigo is the only natural blue dye that exists in our world. Denim is still dyed with synthetic indigo, there's just nothing else like it."
Indigo: Ancient History and the Future of Fashion - An Interview with Amy Taylor (Part 1)
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"Entire economies were built and destroyed based on natural dyes, wars were fought over natural dyes; learning the hows and whys of these pigments makes me feel connected to history."