textiles
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These Glow-In-The-Dark Curtains Put The Northern Lights On Your Windows
As conference rooms go, you could do way, way worse than the one situated in Newfoundland’s Fogo Island Inn, what with windows that look straight out onto the rocky shores and far off foggy horizon line. Pull the printed curtains down and suddenly you’ve got a cool stormy night effect, but the real magic happens…
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This Knit Galloping Horse Is The Most Mesmerising Thing You’ll See Today
Welp, there goes my morning. Once I start staring at this looping experiment in stitchery, I just can’t look away. Instead of using photos, artist Sam Meech made this Eadweard Muybridge-inspired animation with 272 frames captured on a custom 13m long stretch of woven fabric.
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Even The Textiles In Soviet Russia Were Obsessed With Industry
These fabrics mostly speak for themselves, but skinny is that these fabrics are Soviet era textiles from the 1920-1930 period of Russia’s history. And while awesome, the industrial, work-obsessed imagery on display here is hardly subtle.