Sven Steinmetz

Form Weben (Form Weaving)

£1500

Sven Receives £1,500 for the innovative development and production of a customised warping mechanism, enabling the woven construction of seamless garments.

This technique lays the foundation for a whole new system of constructing, producing and consuming clothes on demand. FORM WEBEN eliminates the division between textile and garment. Instead of cutting the pattern out of the textile it is set into the weave. This way garment and textile are created at the same moment. The simultaneous creation minimises waste, reduces shipping distances and removes other steps during production.

Wafa Ghnaim

The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Palestinian Dress Collection & the Presence of Arsenic in the Green Fabrics of Bethlehem.

£750

Wafa receives £750 for a collaborative project with the Met Museum in New York to research the making and collecting practices of the early twentieth century. Following the discovery of the presence of arsenic in the green fabric of a Bethlehem dress the study involves material analysis using scientific instruments with the support of both the Department of Scientific Research and the Department of Ancient Near Eastern Art.

Fabric manufacturing processes in historic Palestine as well as the treatment methods imposed by American and European collectors on traditional dress is valuable in textile studies because it helps construct a social, cultural, and material context in either or both the understanding of dressmaking in historic Palestine, or the practices of collectors, during the early twentieth century.

Sally Anne Guakrodger-Cowan

Endangered, imperfect, renegade and re-imagined Tassels and Passementerie

£500

Sally receives £500 for a project that aims to highlight the craft of Passementerie through the creation of statement pieces that emphasise contemporary challenges of climate change.

The project will create experimental and re-imagined Passementerie textile pieces and visual responses. Made from a mixture of fabric waste these experiments will consist of oversized re-imagined Passementerie tassels and braids.