Die Vorstricker* is a cooperation project between The Craft Atlas and fashion designer Teresa Mair. Die Vorstricker* examines traditional knitting techniques and patterns from the Alps. We looked at and compared old knitting patterns from the regions Tirol, Vorarlberg, South Tirol and Bavaria. Here you find the digitised research from the project as a collection […]
Skåne wool embroidery is a distinctive form of embroidery from southern Sweden.
Blaudruck is a resist-dye technique characterised by a white pattern on an indigo blue background.
Smocking is an embroidery technique used to gather fabric so that it can stretch.
Wadmal is an ancient technique from Northern Europe where wool is first woven, then felted.
Zmijanje embroidery is an embroidery technique practised in the Zmijanje villages in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Bobbin lace is a lacemaking technique made by braiding and twisting lengths of thread wound on bobbins.
Harris Tweed is a cloth handwoven by islanders at their homes in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland, finished in the Outer Hebrides, and made from pure virgin wool dyed and spun in the Outer Hebrides.
