I founded this site in March 2011 as a platform for expressing my love for traditional culture, globally inspired style and all things ethnic. Focusing in particular on the magnificent, handcrafted, artisanal products that continue to inspire and ignite the imaginations of artists and designers in contemporary culture.
Specifically centred around 'fashion' or, perhaps more appropriately 'style', WANDERING THREADS is a collection of findings from around the world, built upon, week by week, as I travel across far and distant lands and stumble across more wonders from the world wide web.
Encompassing everything from jewellery and textiles to traditional dress, costume, high fashion, home accessories and other such adornments, I hope that this site will both enlighten and excite its readers to dive deeper into the spectacle of diversity and ingenuity that can be found at every corner of the globe.
Encompassing everything from jewellery and textiles to traditional dress, costume, high fashion, home accessories and other such adornments, I hope that this site will both enlighten and excite its readers to dive deeper into the spectacle of diversity and ingenuity that can be found at every corner of the globe.
As in the words of a wise traveller and wordsmith:
throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the
safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore. Dream. Discover. - Mark Twain
I hope you will enjoy perusing the pages of this blog, swooning over beautiful ethnic inspired products, reading inspirational interviews with fellow wanderers, wanderlusting over places to visit and perhaps even discovering what's in vogue 3000 metres up a mountain in Vietnam? Either way, pour yourself a cuppa, sit down, relax and just wander...
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Samantha Davis is the author of Wandering Threads and works on various freelance projects within the fashion and design and media industries. She studied BA(hons) Fashion: Communication with Promotion at London's prestigious Central Saint Martin's College of Art & Design before embarking on an epic adventure around Asia, during which time Wandering Threads was born. She has visited over 30 countries, lived on four continents and accumulated more traditional textiles, trinkets, accessories and photographs than she'll ever really have space for.
