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From chef’s whites to medical scrubs

Meet the machinists who have rapidly switched from making clothing for hospitality staff to uniforms for hospital workers.

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Transforming the decorative into dissent

Discover how embroidered messages by two ‘troublesome’ women in 19th-century asylums are mirrored in the therapeutic quilting work of writer Rachel May.

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Dress and the magic of touch

Fashion, of course, is largely about appearance, but the feeling of clothes on your skin is a complex sensory experience. Shahidha Bari contemplates the human connections in the business of creating and wearing clothes.

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When self-deception becomes global hoax

Being deceived isn’t always a case of believing someone else’s lie. Experiments have shown that many of us can be manipulated into accepting our own fictions as true.

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  • Textiles: two fabric samples mounted on a printed background. Wood engraving with applied fabric, 1813.
  • Textiles: three fabric samples mounted on a printed background. Wood engraving with applied fabric, 1815.
  • Textiles: four fabric samples mounted on a printed background. Wood engraving with applied fabric, 1814.
  • Textiles: four fabric samples mounted on a printed background. Wood engraving with applied fabric, 1809.
  • Textiles: two fabric samples mounted on a printed background. Wood engraving with applied fabric, 1810.
  • Textiles: four fabric samples mounted on a printed background. Wood engraving with colour fabric, 1809.
  • Textiles: a fabric sample mounted on a printed background. Wood engraving with applied fabric, 1810.
  • Textiles: four fabric samples mounted on a printed background. Wood engraving with applied fabric, 1812.
  • Symbiosis, embroidery on fabric. 2015
  • Casimir Joseph Davaine. Woven fabric, 1902.
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