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CROCHET - Objects With Attitude
CROCHET - Objects With Attitude

Nobody needs a crocheted tomato, which is precisely why Rhi makes them. An architecture degree, a Milan apartment and a hook have produced fruit charms, striped tissue covers, and a growing case for objects that refuse to behave.

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KNITTING - Spark & Spreadsheets
KNITTING - Spark & Spreadsheets

A sketch in a purse notebook takes seconds. Turning it into a sweater that genuinely works on a body takes Julia Wilkens considerably longer, and involves more spreadsheets than anyone expects. The Amsterdam designer explains why both halves matter.

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WEAVING - Small World, Wide Open
WEAVING - Small World, Wide Open

Hiroto builds the looms. Masako weaves the ribbons and teaches band weaving across Japan. Together they run Fagelbo Studio in Kamakura, a coastal town of temples and green hills. They have been working this way since 2011, at the scale of an insect at a flower.

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TUFTING - Tufted For Joy
TUFTING - Tufted For Joy

A ferry ride from Seattle, on an island where the commute involves whales, Michelle Maclise is tufting sardines into pillows. They are ridiculous, beautifully made, and impossible to walk past without smiling.

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WEAVING - Woven Into Meaning
WEAVING - Woven Into Meaning

Before the loom, there was a desk job and a craving for sun on her skin. Now every piece starts as a feeling and ends as thread. This is what happens when you finally listen to the itch. Meet the lovely Cansu of No 8 Atölye today….

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CROCHET - Maker Without a Map
CROCHET - Maker Without a Map

A pattern would only get in the way. Irene Hoofs lets a bag take shape one decision at a time, no plan, just instinct and a color that catches her eye. From her heritage atelier in Faro, the best pieces, she says, are discovered mid-stitch.

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WEAVING - The Long Soak
WEAVING - The Long Soak

Karen Sato learned to weave in Sweden and now works from her apartment in Tokyo, where the loom sits in the room like another piece of furniture. Her cloth holds two places at once, Swedish tradition and a Japanese life, and asks neither to step aside. She weaves for keeping, not for display....

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WEAVING - The Grid Has Soul
WEAVING - The Grid Has Soul

She works hard, then she stops, walks the dog, and comes back. Sully Sherrod has built her practice around exactly that rhythm, weaving bold geometric tapestries and then painting directly onto the surface itself...

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CROCHET - Only What's Real
CROCHET - Only What's Real

There is a particular kind of dust that settles when you work with jute. Olga Panagopoulou of Plextopattern knows it well. It's part of the process, part of the deal, and entirely worth it. A new Story about slow making, honest materials, and the beauty of keeping only what's real….

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KNITTING - Japan Within The Yarn
KNITTING - Japan Within The Yarn

In Tohoku, winters are long and the craft traditions run deep. Akiko Iwaki has been paying attention to both her whole life, and it shows in every stitch. Her knitting is playful, precise, and quietly rooted in a Japan that still knows how to make things by hand.

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WEAVING - The Space Between
WEAVING - The Space Between

Some people spend years building the wrong life before they find the right one. Ilary Bottini walked away from a decade in PR to devote herself to fiber art, and the work she has made since is bold, conceptual, and impossible to look away from…

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