Farming Vogue: Wool | Calling farmers and designers for on-line meet ups

Name out to farmers and designers for on-line meet ups for Future Vogue: Wool

Photographs: Joss McKinley | Design: Dörte de Jesus

Wool remains to be produced within the UK in abundance, however it’s chronically undervalued, underutilised, as a textile.  

The rising, rising marketplace for domestically grown textiles presents alternatives for farmers and growers to diversify into fibre and dye merchandise and for designers to work with regionally sourced supplies and dyes.  

SEE and SWE Fibresheds have simply launched their Farming Vogue: Wool information that addresses one of many key points recognized in an intensive session with farmers, designers, and processors – the dearth of hyperlinks, widespread language and understanding of one another’s necessities and manufacturing cycles.  

By means of the Future Vogue Landscapes undertaking, we’re connecting CSF and Fibreshed networks, utilizing the information to open conversations and facilitate long-term collaborations between farmers and designers within the SE and SW areas. We’re additionally growing a collection of design prototypes and new methods of speaking the qualities and advantages of UK wool, to create proofs of idea for future help and improvement of bioregional wool provide networks. 

As step one, we’re convening a collection of on-line meet ups to introduce the Farming Vogue: Wool information and begin conversations on experiences, alternatives and challenges between farmers and designers.  

The meet ups can be co-hosted by Emma Hague, Director of SWE Fibreshed; Deborah Barker, Director of SEE Fibreshed and Dr Mila Burcikova from Centre for Sustainable Vogue, London School of Vogue, College of the Arts London. These can be later adopted by in-person meet-ups in Bristol, London, and a number of other farms within the SE and SW areas. 

The net meet ups will happen on Zoom. To supply flexibility and provides everybody who needs to participate a chance to hitch us, we’ll provide a collection of lunchtime and night classes between the top of Might and mid-June 2024. The in particular person meet-ups will then happen between July and October 2024 and can be open to all contributors of the preliminary on-line classes. Extra data to observe. 

Learn how to register your curiosity 

• Your breeds 

• Your anticipated clip this 12 months 

• Your farming system (e.g. agroecological, natural, conservation grazing, in conversion and so on.) 

• Do you utilize wool in your design apply? 

• Do you might have any expertise with soil-to-soil textiles? 

• Do you presently have capability for a brand new collaboration?

Funded by the Arts and Humanities Analysis Council (AHRC), a part of UK Analysis and Innovation.