Finding The Common Thread: Austin's New Fabric Heaven

Austin's newest fabric emporium is more fun than going for ice cream.

"...Jeanie Brown really loves fabric. When she needed a print jersey for a project..."

Sept. 29, 2009 Design Post by Anne Harris

Gender, Sex, and Fabric

Review: Nicole Roerick Collective’s 'Morose Beauty'

"...not the wearer, the skirted woman paws at the fabric, twisting and groping like an injured dog at its..."

May 22, 2013 Arts Post by Jonelle Seitz

Austin Fabric Shop Hop

We are spirits; this is material; let's get down to it.

"...all things sewable, featuring eight shops stocked full of fabrics and tools to spark your wildest creative fantasies –..."

Feb. 21, 2014 Design Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Fabric of Reality (TV)?

Put this in your sewing machine and stitch it

"...Seafood. Listen: The newest tenant in that strip is Fabricker, a tiny treasure trove of material for fashionistas, run..."

Jan. 26, 2012 Design Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Fantastic Fest Review: In Fabric

Definitely say yes to this dress

"...If In Fabric sounds completely bonkers, that’s because it is. It’s a..."

Sept. 21, 2018 Screens Post by Jenny Nulf

In Fabric

Marianne Jean-Baptiste says yes yes yessss to the dress

"...everyone has one, and while that's not what In Fabric is about, it's what informs everything. It's the same..."

Dec. 6, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Donnybrook, In Fabric Top Fantastic Fest Awards

Plus Danish thriller Holiday sweeps Next Wave category

"...our review here) Best Director: Peter Strickland for In Fabric (read our review here)..."

Sept. 25, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

46 Days Left: Start Your Engines

Kim Kight's Dioramarama.com and Trueup.net provide inspiration

"...raw materials can be, and none more so than fabric. Kim Kight's sewing gets my heart started at Trueup.net..."

Nov. 9, 2008 Design Post by Anne Harris

Stitch Lab Grand Opening Redux

A little bit of the grand opening, a little bit of the history

"...days, Leslie has extended the Stitch Lab 20% off fabric sale until Christmas Day! The donations and fabric sales..."

Dec. 23, 2009 Design Post by Lei-Leen Choo

Exhibitionism

Deviant Craft: False Fabric

"...Theatre is a fabric of lies, carefully woven to illuminate a greater truth,..."

June 13, 1997 Arts Review

Celebration

Long-suppressed documentary of Yves Saint Laurent is style and substance

"...seen seamstresses obsessively huddled over a particular piece of fabric while discussing the nuances of Egyptian hieroglyphics. Yes, it’s..."

Oct. 18, 2019 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Walking on Water

Portrait of renowned environmental artist Christo is more of a thumbnail sketch

"...from interlocking plastic cubes sheathed in a shimmering saffron-colored fabric, much as tourists walk the High Line in New..."

May 24, 2019 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Denise Elliott Jones: "Does It Match the Sofa?" at the Butridge Gallery

This divine Texas artist is straight-up messing with the fabric of reality

"...the colors and patterns of it will match the fabric that covers your goddamn furniture?..."

March 1, 2019 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

Thoroughbreds

America's class system goes under a bloody scalpel.

"...Ultimately, Finley weaves little intricacies into the fabric of a very American story about the one thing..."

March 9, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Fashionista

UK-to-ATX transplant Simon Rumley's thriftstore mystery

"...Who doesn’t love the feel of comfortable fabric against their skin? A blouse, a dress, a nicely..."

Feb. 9, 2018 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Frances McDormand gives a searing performance as vengeance personified

"...so uncannily of-the-moment that it pierces society’s gauzy moral fabric. Three Billboards’ range spans between anguish and comedy in..."

Nov. 17, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Kozyworld

This collaboration between dancer Julie Nathanielsz and poet Margit Galanter employed fabric to explore human shape and contact

"...suggests that the physical comfort explored within it is fabricated – it's an unauthorized, perhaps subversive, copy...."

June 10, 2016 Arts Review by Jonelle Seitz

It's Complicated

Far from complicated, this rom-com starring Meryl Streep, Alec Baldwin, and Steve Martin is a wish-fulfillment fantasy for women of a certain age.

"...amusing and knowing moments in this comedy, yet the fabric of Meyers’ fantasy is too gossamer to sustain the..."

Dec. 25, 2009 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Patti Smith: Dream of Life

Fashion photographer Steven Sebring made this impressionistic documentary over the course of 12 years with Smith's full participation.

"...is uninteresting; rather, it is textural, rich with the fabric of her life. Of course, it helps that Sebring..."

Aug. 29, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Jindabyne

The Australian director of Lantana returns to similar psychological terrain with this drama based on a Raymond Carver short story and starring the fantastic Laura Linney and Gabriel Byrne.

"...this follow-up, Jindabyne. Both films examine the often tenuous fabric that unites husbands and wives and how a small..."

June 1, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Puffy Chair

In their first feature, former Austinites the Duplass brothers have made a near-perfect relationship-trauma comedy.

"...Atlanta with the goal of picking up a purple fabric La-Z-Boy recliner that Josh bought off of eBay. It’s..."

June 2, 2006 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Up and Down

Director Jan Hrebejk’s stylishly interwoven tales of modern-day Prague add up to a melancholy, comedic riff on what it means to be European these days.

"...weaves a series of parallel tales into a cohesive fabric that teeters between resigned, fatalistic hilarity and outright pathos...."

May 6, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Dress

"...designed in fury and fashioned from a swath of fabric conceived in anger, has a strange and tragic effect..."

Aug. 14, 1998 Movie Review by Hollis Chacona

Unzipped

Fashion photographer Douglas Keeve turns his camera on designer Isaac Mizrahi for an intriguing and often funny look into the making of a seasonal fashion collection.

"...and an antique French corset made of metal and fabric. The documentary chronicles the collection from its beginnings in..."

Sept. 29, 1995 Movie Review by Alison Macor

Into the West

"...So many themes are agilely woven into the movie's fabric that there are things that will lure and excite..."

Sept. 17, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Notebook On Cities and Clothes

"...things like which comes first: the design or the fabric, form or content? At its weakest, Notebook comes across..."

May 8, 1992 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Story of Boys and Girls

"...weave this insular family portrait into a larger social fabric. The Story of Boys and Girls aspires to become..."

Nov. 22, 1991 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Taxi Blues

"...between two contrasting characters and embeds it in a fabric of contemporary political metaphor...."

June 7, 1991 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The International Modern Quilt Guild: The First QuiltCon in Austin

And these aren't, as the saying goes, your grandmother's quilts

"...Grant: No, it's pretty much all cotton fabric. And it can be cotton fabric that's produced by..."

Feb. 20, 2013 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

After a Fashion

You never know what you're going to find on the way to the doctor …

"...FABRIC SALE..."

March 2, 2012 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

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