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Textile Hive

@TextileHive

(Physical+Digital+Contextual) A collection of 40,000 textiles curated by Andrea Aranow + a platform for engaging textile culture created by Caleb Sayan

 Portland, Oregon
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Joined April 2014
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Educational access to 40,000 fabrics, from 50 countries, spanning 200 years of design history buff.ly/1NMk4kR
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Shahira Kamal@sk_custom1 Oct 2019
Fantastic #textile craft demos, lectures, and workshops all month long during #October2019 at #PortlandTextileMonth in #PDX. And so many for #FREE! @textilehive @portlandtextilemonth #pdxevents #artandcraftpdx buff.ly/2nmLqZn
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Portland’s Textile Hive fabric library was started by the designer of Jimi Hendrix’s snakeskin suit

Portland’s Textile Hive fabric library was started by the designer of Jimi Hendrix’s snakeskin suit

Fashion and interior designers turn to Andrea Aranow’s collection of 40,000 unique textiles from around the world for inspiration.

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Portland Textile Month year two event submissions are open! The year of Exchange, submit events here: zfrmz.com/Y25M2PLiKlxg6Wo0uc… #portlandtextilemonth
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Bad news: The fashion industry is actually slowing down on sustainability

Bad news: The fashion industry is actually slowing down on sustainability

Here's what brands--and shoppers--need to do now to help save the planet.

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Excited to participate!
Soyeon Shim (@uwdeanshim) profile pictureSoyeon Shim@uwdeanshim2 Mar 2019
New symposium just announced - the history,practice & future of textile collecting - April 6 - go.wisc.edu/j61ey3 -featuring NYT best selling author @WisAlumni Susan Gloss, a panel on the future of digital collecting with @TextileHive and more!
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Interesting project: Weave: The Social Fabric Project - The Aspen Institute aspeninstitute.org/videos/we… via @aspeninstitute
About Weave: The Social Fabric Project

About Weave: The Social Fabric Project

Social fragmentation is the core challenge of our day. Here's what can be done.

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Join us for "Lindsey Fout's Last Chance Blanket Process Talk" 2/11 at 5:30 eventbrite.com/e/lindsey-fou…
Were honored to be hosting a free lecture by Martha Banyas on the Batiks of Java February 7th in conjunction with portlandtextilemonth Martha spent over 20 years traveling & collecting… instagram.com/p/BswfQj_Bjk9/…
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For over 45 years, Aranow has collected, catalogued, studied, and sold tens of thousands of patterned fabrics, now available to the masses through the Textile Hive database. nuvomagazine.com/magazine/au…

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Today, the Textile Hive database includes high-resolution photos of 40,000 fabrics, sourced from 50 countries and dating back as far as 200 years.

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Loving this clothing fashion design podcast series by ⁦@99piorg⁩ Articles of Interest - 99% Invisible 99percentinvisible.org/aoi/
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Love the feel of these patterns by Walter and Gradiva walterandgradiva.com/pattern…
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Fabric Pieces: Honoring the Past - Core Kyoto - Video On Demand - NHK WORLD - www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/v…
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Excited to announce our first product at Textile Hive, a blanket made in collaboration with Last Chance Textiles. We couldn't be prouder of how it turned out. From the design to the materials and manufacturing (New York) the blanke…lnkd.in/gsH-NhA lnkd.in/gZTbfAn
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Lovely interview with our favorite collaborator Lindsey from Last Chance Textiles via @CicadaWheels cicadawheels.com/style/linds…
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Parsons And Lidewij Edelkoort On The Value Of Imperfection And Why Textiles Matter forbes.com/sites/westernboni…
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Is it a museum or not? The question is worth asking. washingtonpost.com/entertain…
Perspective | Is it a museum or not? The question is worth asking.

Perspective | Is it a museum or not? The question is worth asking.

Do we really need museums of Ice Cream, Poetry, Pinballs, Toby Jugs, Meditation?

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Lovely blog post on the @HovdenFFW site about the value of well made durable fabric hovdenformalfarmwear.com/blo… – at Portland, OR
Portland's Inaugural Textile Month Is in Full Swing | Portland Monthly pdxmonthly.com/articles/2018…
Portland's Inaugural Textile Month Is in Full Swing

Portland's Inaugural Textile Month Is in Full Swing

Inspired by NYC's citywide shindig, Portland's first-ever fabric fest runs through the end of October. Here are five events to hit.

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