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Designmuseum Danmark. Trykkraft.

A cabinet of textile wonders
Review

The textile discipline is being celebrated in Designmuseum Danmark’s new major exhibition Trykkraft. Textile printing is afforded an exceptionally dignified status, with thoughtful interpretation and elegant presentation, according to exhibition reviewer Charlotte Jul. Eight living Danish textile printers have created new works specifically for the exhibition, which also incorporates the museum’s extensive textile collection.

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The Fabric of My Life
Research article

Seventy-eight podcasts about clothing and textile told in twelve different languages. That is just one of the outcomes of the project The Fabric of My Life, in which team of researchers from Germany, Greece and Denmark focused on migration, clothing and memories. The EU-funded partnership, which ran from 2019 to 2022, involved museums, education […]

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Helle Trolle

The social fabric
Foreword

You only need to look carefully at any piece of textile to see the theme of this issue of Formkraft: fibres + connectedness = textile. Whether fibres are being spun, woven, crocheted, knitted, braided or felted, the purpose is the same: binding a vast number of tiny fibres close together in formations that now […]

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Sofia Hagström Møller. Huskunstnerprojekt.

‘The students are the loom itself’ – Sofia Hagström Møller’s latest works were the result of a meeting with young co-creators
Article

As a weaver, she keeps the threads tight, and as a textile artist she works uniquely with the sculptural potential of threads and the possibilities of colour. But in the three new works created at Biblioteket Rentemestervej in Copenhagen NV, Sofia Hagström Møller has shared the art production with three different groups of children […]

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Lærke Bagger, fotograf Robin Skjoldborgs 2021

BREAKING THE PATTERN
Article

Why do many thousands of people follow when the Danish designer and influencer Lærke Bagger posts knitting photos on instagram daily? Weaver and folk high school teacher Hanne Lange Houlberg looks at the textile community around Lærke Bagger as a framework for freedom, commitment and pattern breaking.

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Marianne Johnstad Møller og Lawrence Ebelle. Foto Marie-Louise Høstbo.

Space for reflection
Interview

[…] Brønshøj Water Tower, TANG: TRANSFORMATIONER unfolds as a multi-sensory total installation, where the organic language of seaweed resonates with the raw, industrial architecture of the space. Through textile, scent, video, and biomaterials, four artists investigate seaweed’s transformative potential in close dialogue with the site’s distinct character. Curated by Lawrence Ebelle, the exhibition emerges from […]

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