A new online textile magazine, hand eye magazine, with a wide variety of topics such as sustainability, traditions and history, and well as featuring artists and exhibitions and looking at materials and processes. Promises to be a fantastic read and resource. With articles such as ‘The old language of indigo‘ and inside indigo – looking at the processes and traditions of Indigo dyeing [If you want to indigo dying at home there is an indepth article here.]

Happy Chaos – the story of Cape Town’s Mielie Studio – turning scraps from South Africa’s fashion and textile industries into hooked rugs and other homewares : African Velvets – looking at the tructure and improvisation of Central African Kuba cloth.

[thanks sknitter and ina]

Interweave Names Kathleen Cubley Editor of KnittingDaily.com

Kathleen says:

I’m addicted to all things knitting, including magazines, books, and online magazines, patterns, and blogs. I’m so excited to become part of the online knitting world, taking over the reins so deftly handled by Sandi. I look forward to becoming a big part of your community, bringing you new techniques, projects, author introductions, tips and tricks, videos, knit-a-longs, insider’s info about new products—basically, a host of information to increase your confidence and enhance the joy of knitting.

Digital Subscriptions to Art Monthly Australia only $60: From May 09, issue #219, Art Monthly Australia went online.
Enjoy the latest edition of AMA at your screen-convenience.
AMA’s digital edition is exactly the same as it appears in print, along with bonus search, hyperlink and print functions.
View subscription options and free trial issues of AMA. Its a fabulous magazine for those interested in Art.

Subscribe & win
Subscribers to the digital edition will gain online access to over a year’s worth of back issues (starting from March 2007).

+Those who sign up before July 30, 2009, will be in the running to win our 21st anniversary commemorative print (priced at $1250) by celebrated Australian artist eX de Medici, appropriately titled It’s a Global World (2008). View online here.

Interweave is celebrating Earth Day by offering two free digital issues of the most current Quilting Arts and Cloth Paper Scissors magazines for a limited time. Digital subscriptions are great for the eco-conscious who are trying to save paper. For one week only (until 4/29/09) you can view the entire digital edition of the Quilting Arts April/May 2009 issue and Cloth Paper Scissors May/June 2009 issue. LINK

A bit late to the party, but have recently learned that CRAFTzine are ceasing their print publication. I must admit to being disappointed, even though I didn’t subscribe (too expensive in Australia) I had written for them in the past and do have a few copies, I just loved its variety. Seems they are consolidating their two publications and concentrating more on MAKEzine which has a wider readership and longer history. I hope that they are able to squeeze in a few crafty articles. Read more here and here.

Selvedge magazine is out in stores – and the online version is also up – there is a new downloadable free pdf on the selvedge website of this cute apron too.

Lip mag is an alternative ’street’ mag aimed at young women. I dig their anti-consumer message and their focus on ‘reality’ rather than fantasy. They say:

We at lip feel that mainstream magazines do not help young women learn to deal with real life or to become culturally, politically, and environmentally aware people with strong self-esteem and individuality because of their focus on products, beauty and celebrity.

[The] subjects of fashion, sex, relationships, and glamour will be presented in a way that explores reality rather than fantasy, creativity rather than consumerism, and glamour as an inner ideal rather than a public one.

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