Selvedge - Issue 131 Flow Sweater Yarn Amanda’s villages and houses are

Amanda’s villages and houses are born out of a love of storytelling and narrative

Yumiko Higuchi combines wool thread with cotton floss for a modern twist on embroidery

endlessly curious

carved by hand

Photographed by Tom Barr

Selvedge - Issue 131 Flow Sweater Yarn Amanda’s villages and houses areA little over a century ago, abundant clean water from a tap would have been unimaginable. Today, it is so seamlessly embedded in daily life that it goes unnoticed, fostering an illusion that natural resources will replenish themselves indefinitely. Yet water remains the invisible ingredient at almost every stage of textile production from irrigation and retting to scouring, dyeing, and washing. This issue explores water's profound entanglement with