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Gossamer Press
Individual
autonomous
Gossamer Press by Lejla Vala Verheus
Gossamer Press, a micro-publishing platform, intertwines female-driven textile crafts with digital realms, adopting annon-linear approach akin to navigating a web. Exploring concepts like 'Warp,' 'Weft,' and 'Gap,' it connects physical and digital realms, uncovering hidden narratives and challenging historical erasure, presenting a dynamic view of interconnected webs.
GP is founded by Lejla Vala Verheus and is part of an ongoing research on open-source methodologies in textile craft and the digital realm, drawing upon her background as a critical fashion practitioner and graphic designer. By rediscovering overlooked codes and relationships, questioning traditional publishing methods, and blending fashion with printed media, Lejla aims to create new narratives in the fashion realm.
23.10.26
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Encrypted Embroidery
Individual
experimental
Encrypted Embroidery is a digital tool by Sophie Nadel that turns a message into a pattern for embroidery. Users can generate a coded design, save it, and reveal the key needed to stitch and decode it. The tool offers a way to explore how information can be encoded and kept offline through a personal, material object.
Nadel’s tool makes the process of encoding a message visible and hands-on. You type something in, see it turned into a pattern, and can imagine carrying it with you as embroidery. It makes information feel like something shaped by rules that we can learn to read and work with, opposed to it disappearing into the void of a device or platform. The tool makes digital literacy tangible by letting audiences practise encryption and consider how, and where, they want to keep their information.
23.10.26