CONTENTS

INDULGE Textiles to buy, collect or simply admire 11 STOCKING UP Special presents for special people Compiled by Polly Leonard 78 SHOP TALK Jane Audas goes shopping at V V Rouleaux Photographs by Claudia Brooks

GLOBAL Textiles from around the world 36 SEQUINS AND SPANGLES The Sequin’s journey from tomb to disco By Sarah Jane Downing 54 WHERE THE WATERS MEET St Petersburg is a spellbinding combination of style, place and time By Tom Stewart 56 REFLECTED GLORY The Shimmering Fabrics of Rubelli By Ptolemy Mann. Photographs by Noelle Hoeppe, styling by Nelson Sepulveda

ANECDOTE Textiles that touch our lives 15 PILE ON THE PASSEMENTERIE Text by Nelson Sepulveda styles Declercq Passementiers, photographed by Thomas Straub 74 HARLOTS AND HEROINES What domestic and decorative embroidery says about literary characters By Jane Brocket 96 SWATCH Favourite Fabric no.33: Asyut By Sarah Jane Downing, illustrated by Rosie Gainsborough

ATTIRE critical reporting of fashion trends 32 DECORATIVE DECADE The Jazz and Dance inspired designs of the 1920s By Dennis Nothdruft 40 100 YEAR STITCH 20s Fashion is making a comeback, via the 1970s By Dani Trew 45 HEIGHT OF FASHION Costume Designing in Miniature Interview with Deborah Cook

CONCEPT Textiles in fine art 26 OPUS ANGLICANUM The Art and Craft of English Medieval Embroidery By Michaela Zöschg 62 WOODEN MADEMOISELLES The use of Pandora Dolls as portable mannequins By Sarah Jane Downing 72 CURIOUS CONTENTS The work of artist Michael Mapes By Grace Warde-Aldam

INDUSTRY from craft to commerce 22 ENCAPSULATED AND ENERGISED Technology meets Tradition in the work of Alice Archer By Sarah Braddock Clarke portrait by Alun Callender 48 THE GRAFT BEHIND THE GLAMOUR The art of dressing drama with Cosprop By Nicola Donovan, photographs by Claudia Brooks

SELVEDGE 4

p18/19

p28/29

p32/33

p38/39