Press Interviews and Publications
For press enquiries and images, please contact Deborah Barker at southeastenglandfibreshed@gmail.com.
Selvedge Magazine: Farmed Fashion Article
Published in 2024 in Selvedge Magazine, this extract from the full Farming Fashion: Wool book explores the history of the Fibershed Movement and the UK Fibresheds, noting the natural, social and economic landscape context.
Mapping trends and best practice in climate action and sustainability in the arts
South East England Fibreshed was a case study in this British Council/UAL research on the role the arts can play in understanding the climate crisis. The research was presented at COP26 in 2023. Written by Professor Dilys Williams, Dr Mila Burcikova and Niamh Tuft, University of the Arts London.
An article by Don-Alvin Adegeest for January 2023’s online edition of ‘Fashion United’ about the Farming Fashion podcast, a collaboration between Southeast and South West England Fibresheds and Farmerama Radio.
Against the Grain: those pushing the boundaries in the woollen industry
Dorte de Jesus for ‘The Lissome Magazine’, Issue no. 3, 2022.
An interview between Deborah Barker and Dorte de Jesus for ‘The Lissome Magazine’, Issue no. 3, 2022.
An article by Isabella Goggin for Plaw Hatch Farm, November 2022 looking at the way that the health of the soil, the variety of the pasture, the welfare of the sheep can be read in the richness of the wool fibres produced.
Growing the Fibreshed movement in the UK
An article by Deborah Barker for ‘Ethical Consumer’, August 2021 about the growing Fibreshed movement in the UK. Ethical Consumer is an independent, not-for-profit, multi-stakeholder co-operative.
An article by Becca Warner for ‘Atlas of the Future’, August 2020 about the way in which the South West and South East Fibresheds were set up to join the dots between local fibres, processes, farmers and designers to produce a textile within a local region.
Rewilding Textiles: Design for a Regenerative Epoch
An interview with Deborah Barker in the Rewilding Textiles Publication (page 78), looking at Fibreshed and the restructing of the fashion industry. A Maison/0 Project. The Sustainable Angle 10th Future Fabrics Expo, London, June 2022.
