The Picnic by Raw Edges for Kvadrat
London-based design duo Raw Edges arranged hundreds of fabric ribbons around the edge of their display stand for Danish textile manufacturer Kvadrat at this year's Stockholm Design Week. More
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Competition: five copies of Material Futures to be won
Competition: Dezeen is giving readers the chance to win one of five copies of the inaugral issue of Material Futures, a new publication about textile research. More
Ready Made Curtain by Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec
Cologne 2013: French designers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec have come up with a DIY kit for making curtains using a hanging cord that winds up like a guitar string. More
Nodi Contemporanei by Loredana Bonora
Product news: every table, chair, lamp and light switch in this furniture collection by Italian designer Loredana Bonora is covered in crocheted yarns of cotton, PVC, plastic tape and even washing lines. More
Knitted tree and creatures by Donna Wilson for the Stepney Green Design Collection
East London designer Donna Wilson will contribute a special installation to Dezeen's Stepney Green Design Collection made up of a 1.8 metre-high knitted tree with a selection of her soft-toy creatures living in it. More
Cryptographer & Encoded Textiles by Raw Color
Coded messages have been bleached into these scarves with a customised printer invented by Dutch graphic designers Raw Color. More
Im Blanky by Studio NMinusOne and Rodolphe el-Khoury
This blanket is embroidered with tiny sensors so it can watch you sleeping. More
Arab Seasons by Bokja
Lebanese design duo Bokja have created embroidered maps of the Arab world that present a tapestry of changing politics and traditions. More
Designed in Hackney: Omi pendant Lightsby Naomi Paul
Designed in Hackney: these crochet pendant lamps by Dalston designer Naomi Paul are made of mercerised cotton and surplus silk from the fashion industry. More
Movie: golden spider-silk cape by Simon Peers and Nicholas Godley
In this movie from the V&A museum in London, Simon Peers and Nicholas Godley talk about the cape they made by harvesting silk from over a million wild spiders in Madagascar. The silk is naturally golden in colour and the spiders take just a week to replenish their supply once released back into the wild. More
Making a Silk Screen by Nina Levett
Austrian designer Nina Levett mixes imagery from punk and pop culture into her designs for textiles, wallpaper and ceramics. More
Spider-silk cape by Simon Peers and Nicholas Godley
A golden cape woven from the silk of over a million wild spiders is on show at the V&A museum in London. More
Alchemy by Cristian Zuzunaga at The Temporium
The Temporium: you can get 15% off Cristian Zuzunaga's new series of digitally printed scarves at our Christmas shop The Temporium, open until Christmas Eve in London. More
Today at Dezeen Platform: Sivan Royz
Dezeen Platform: In this movie filmed at Dezeen Space, Israeli designer Sivan Royz presents her Blooming Structures purses and jewellery made from laser-cut silk, which were on show at Dezeen Platform on Monday. See more photos and information in our previous story. More
Blooming Structures by Sivan Royz
These fungus-like purses are made of layers of laser-cut silk. More
Stitching Concrete by Florian Schmid
Industrial design graduate Florian Schmid made these stools by folding fabric that's impregnated with cement then drenching it in water. More
The Fourth-Dimension by Orawee Choedamphai
New Designers 2011: textile designer Orawee Choedamphai has created modular knitted screens that incorporate cable ties and Lego. More
Dalston Rose by House of Hackney
London brand (and near-neighbours of Dezeen) House of Hackney have created a range of floral wallpapers and fabrics that turn black at the edges. More
Origin part II: Balance by BCXSY
Milan 2011: Eindhoven designers BCXSY present a collection of rugs woven by Bedouin women in Israel at Spazio Rossana Orlandi in Milan this week. More
Hilton Pattaya Hotel by Department of Architecture
Bangkok studio Department of Architecture have installed rippling fabric fins hanging from the ceiling of this hotel lobby in Pattaya, Thailand. More