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LFW at DSM: Gathering AW26 has arrived in-store at Dover Street Market. Third Floor.⁠
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Based in London and working with artisans across Asia and Africa, Gathering collaborates with artisan studios to develop new handwoven, hand painted and naturally dyed textiles - using ancient techniques.⁠
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An afternoon shaped by clay. Join Seattle ceramicist @alexrobydesign at the Glasswing Warehouse on July 18 & 19 for a beginner hand building workshop with a midday tea ceremony from @kwentotea.

Link in bio for more info or to sign up. by @___gathering___

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Reintroduction ///
Franco-Japanese artist Tiffany Bouelle has developed over the past eight years a distinctive body of work exploring notions of memory, trace, and resilience. Her practice is rooted in a highly personal painting technique, refined through a daily discipline of gesture and repetition. Combining the rigor of fine craftsmanship with a contemporary artistic vision, Bouelle has established a unique visual language in which process, materiality, and time are inseparable.

Drawing from both her Franco-Japanese heritage and her early training in traditional calligraphy, she approaches painting as an embodied practice, where each mark results from sustained attention and accumulated experience. Through this meticulous engagement with gesture, her works acquire a remarkable depth, balancing precision with spontaneity.

Oscillating between abstraction and figuration, Bouelle creates compositions in which fragility and strength coexist. Her paintings evoke themes of transformation, disappearance, and renewal, offering subtle reflections on the living world, transmission, and the persistence of memory.

Presented in France and internationally, her work ranges from intimate works on paper to monumental installations, while maintaining a consistently recognizable pictorial vocabulary distinguished by technical mastery, sensitivity, and conceptual depth.

SHOWS
Vibrates Vestiges at @chateaudemalleret until June 20
La Nota Mancante, collective show @fondazione_maddalenadigiacomo taken in Paris by @___gathering___

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infinite summer infinite energy infinite swipe by @___gathering___

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If a photo shoot happens in the forest, but nobody hears of it, did it really happen?

A photo shoot in the Japanese woods with your dearest friends, documenting the work you did, doesn’t get any better. Then you find a magical waterfall and a 600 year old temple at the end of a two hour hike through the snowy forest mountains of Gunma.

This was shot over a year ago and it never really made it beyond WhatsApp groups and the website… Might have something to do with overthinking things.

I used to think there was something more honest or humble about keeping the work quiet. Just doing it and letting it sit. But the work is made to be seen, to be worn, to be shared and passed on to others…

So I want to make more of an effort to share it with others. So it can reach more people. So my friends know how much I love and appreciate them and value their skill and work. So more people learn about Gathering and can decide whether it’s for them or not, or share it with others who care about special materials made by hand. by @___gathering___

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Comfort isn’t really about softness or warmth. It’s something harder to explain.

The smell of a beautiful coat that’s been passed down to you from one family member to another. Your mum’s cooking before you even walk through the door. A jacket you’ve had so long it’s started to feel like a second skin. That feeling of being somewhere familiar, even when you’re not.

That’s what we think about when we make things. Clothes woven and dyed using techniques passed down for centuries, ancient processes, tribal traditions, the kind of knowledge that lives in hands not books.

Everyday clothing, made with materials and techniques that have been here long before any of us.

A few of these pieces remain on our website, link in bio. by @___gathering___

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Comment KALA to see all the beautiful things we’ve made from the world’s oldest cotton.

I learnt about kala cotton almost 10 years ago, before we made our first garment. It was the fabric that made Gathering make sense - the texture, the weight, the fact that it’s been made the same way for thousands of years without anyone needing to improve it.

It’s rare, dying out and something that we want to continue to use, develop and share with fabric lovers around the world. by @___gathering___

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It always starts with fabric.. details below:

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Mud-dyed ramie from China — one of the oldest plant fibres on earth, cool, strong, and impossibly soft dyed with mud and dried on glass sheets. Made to be Beekeeper Pant. Super wide, but sits perfectly on all bodies, flowing with the wind.

Slide 3 & 4
A medium-weight linen, naturally dyed green by layering indigo and marigold together in the dye bath. Almost sage. Cut long with a curved hem borrowing from South Asian and East Asian tailoring. Our take on the Kurta.

Slide 5 & 6
Handwoven, hand-felted yak and sheep wool from the Tibetan Plateau. Dark, dense, centuries unchanged. Made to be The Pear Drop Bag — one of our original designs, inspired by Furoshiki bags from Japan and the hobo-core Aesthetic.

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A rain dye print on clay brown linen cotton. The Farmer Shirt. Our relaxed comfy shirt, with shell buttons, each picked to perfectly match the naturally dyed print.

And if you’ve made it to the end of this caption, each of these pieces is on the website now. Only a few pieces remain, some with a discount applied at checkout. (available until 30th March). Link in bio. by @___gathering___

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If you want to learn more about natural dyes and the farmer jacket, comment DYE.

Farmer Jacket in Rain Dye - Limited to 15 pieces. by @___gathering___

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Doh-roh-zoh-meh. All the shades of…

Mud!

In Amami Ōshima, Japan, mud holds more than minerals. It holds memory. And, some believe, healing.

The iron-rich soil used in Dorozome isn’t just for dyeing — it’s long been associated with purification, grounding, and renewal.

Tannins from local plants, including the local wood, iron from volcanic earth — together, they create colours that feel alive, elemental, and ancestral.

I’m drawn to traditions like this not just for the beauty in the many shades of brown that come from mud dye, but for their wisdom.

Because sometimes, the most powerful colours come from the most unexpected places — like deep in the ground.

For more stories like this, sign up to our journal via the link in bio. by @___gathering___

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Your clothes are trying to tell you something — and Sheila Hicks spent her life decoding it.

Trained as a painter, raised with Bauhaus ideas, Sheila Hicks broke away from the canvas — and into the world of thread, fibre, and form.

To her, weaving wasn’t craft. It was a grid, a language, an architecture. A living algorithm that carried stories, cultures, and human histories across time.

Like most textile people, Hicks travelled the world to experience the various languages surrounding fibres. From Mexico to Morocco, Hicks learned not just to weave — but to… listen.

This philosophy has deeply shaped the work I do for Gathering — spending over a decade travelling across Africa and Asia, listening to material traditions, studying the cultures that built them, and letting those stories inform each and every thing I make.

Today, Hicks’ monumental works sit in the world’s leading museums — not just as textiles, but as art, architecture, and most of all a communication of her memory.

In worlds like fashion and art, that often dismissed fibre and weaving as “less than,” Sheila Hicks rewrote the rules.

Because when you give material the space to speak — you realise it’s been speaking all along.

If you love learning about textiles, sign up via the link in our bio. by @___gathering___

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