In The Voice of Southern Labor: Radio, Music and Textile Strikes, 1929-1934, authors Vincent Roscigno and William Danaher detail southern textile worker strikes starting in 1929 to the biggest rally (to this day) that involved nearly 400,000 mill workers. Worker’s grievances, solidarity and native radicalism of the time were often reflected in the music they […]

Emily Spivack is a Brooklyn-based artist, writer, teacher, and editor who created the Smithsonian’s blog Threaded and collects stories for the found-art project Sentimental Value. Her work has been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post. Spivack is also the founder of Shop Well with You, which helps […]

Brooklyn-based Lily Piyathaisere of Gamma Folk is new to our natural dye family and we are pretty crazy about her jewelry. Lily says her vision is to “combine traditional techniques with thoughtful, statement jewelry. Influenced by folk art, mysticism, pop culture and the bauhaus, Gamma Folk is a celebration of aesthetics, experiments in technique and […]

From fibres that convert sunlight into electrical energy, to uploading your kinetic energy to a green energy bank, the worlds of fashion and technology are merging. When you think about how fashion will work alongside technology in the future, it might be hard to break from science-fiction-heavy ideas. However, fashionably using solar, wind and even […]