Nine years of sharing our love of textiles
We are delighted to share our prompts with you this year because they are based on our work for our current project, Warped and Wasted, and we invite you to join in!
Warped and Wasted is a large scale, experimental art installation, made exclusively with 100% waste, existing second hand and biodegradable textiles. This year we have been researching and learning about sustainability, collaborating, rethinking our practices, experimenting and, of course, making and remaking textiles – resulting in real changes to our collective practice.
We can’t wait to take part in #SeptTextileLove for the first time and share our work; whilst we champion and celebrate your work through our reposts!
We’re so excited to see what you’ve been creating this year! Your unique interpretations of the prompts, stunning imagery, and thoughtful insights into the vibrant world of textiles are always a joy to experience and share.Â
Each day a member of team seam will be championing three selected works posted as part of #SeptTextileLove with a yellow heart 💛. So take a look at our reposts to see who gets selected!
We encourage you to repost with a yellow heart 💛 as well, to show us whose work you love too! It’s a quick and easy way to meet new textile makers and learn from each other. We are amazed each year how inventive people are with their responses!
What do I do?
There is a prompt for every day in September and you can respond to as many, or as few, as you like on Instagram. Just remember to keep textiles at the heart of each of your responses – there is no right or wrong here, just a glorious mix of textiles and creativity.
To help you get organised you can download our pdf planner.
In your caption please use the exact hashtags #SeptTextileLove and #SeptTextileLove25, tag @seam_collective, and use the new daily hashtag too: #STL25Day1, #STL25Day2 etc. so that we and all the other participants can find your post to like and comment. For example ‘Yellow’ is the prompt for Day 3 so it should have the hashtag #STL25Day3, so it will be easy for you to find everyone’s joyful yellow responses!
What seam will do
We always love seeing and reading all your posts! Each member of seam takes it in turns to choose their three favourite posts for a day – this year we are going to try out the new repost feature on Instagram. You will be able to see our favourites in a grid on our profile page – just select the repost tab and see our profile picture with a yellow heart 💛 on the posts chosen each day.
Note: You may need to enable reposting for the challenge, but only if you are happy with anyone, including us, reposting your post.
The prompts
Don’t you love the mix of multiple meanings for words, and individual imaginations and creativity, which means each prompt can have so many different interpretations? Hopefully you will find the prompts create a new lens from which to view your approach to making.
Here are a few ideas for interpretating prompts that you may find tricky:
- Day 4: Warped – not just a prompt for weavers, is any of your work not sitting quite straight, either deliberately or accidently? Or is your work subversive?
- Day 9: Top tip – ‘a small but particularly useful piece of practical advice’ (Google dictionary)- its always great to learn new things.
- Day 17: Experiment – trying things out, sampling… do you experiment in a scientific or more playful way? How often do you try out something new?
- Day 18: Collaboration – do you work with other people, your clients or other makers? Or do you collaborate with cloth and thread, or nature? Or have you done a more historical collaboration responding to a work from the past? So many different levels to collaboration – we are interested in how you do it!
- Day 20: Decay – I love old cloth, where it has worn and possibly been mended, the fraying edges, all its history, or are you interested in the whole lifecycle of your work – have you planned for decay? How comfortable are you with decay, do you immediately replace objects if they are decaying? What do you do with the decayed ones?
- Day 21: Making a difference – what makes a difference to you? How do you make a difference to other people, however small?
- Day 22: Technology – new technology or ancient technology – what do you use to make your textiles? How do you feel about technology? Or do you need to make textiles as a way to connect with your hands and body?
- Day 23: Lifecycle – Do you consider the whole lifecycle of your materials, from cradle to grave? What will happen with your make when it comes to the end of its life? Or have you found yourself working in cycles?
- Day 27: Rethink – the Warped and Wasted project and sharing our research into working sustainably has made us rethink our practices – what has made you rethink how you work recently? Do errors/serendipity help you rethink?
- Day 28: Caring – how do you care for your makes? Do they have a care label? Is the act of making caring for yourself? Or does caring equal mending for you?
A further invitation…
We would also like to invite you to:
Warped and Wasted – the exhibition:
Saturday 23 August – Saturday 11 October 2025,
ACEarts, Market Place, Somerton, Somerset, TA11 7NB,
Tuesday 11-5, Wednesday -Saturday 10-5. Free entry.
Warped and Wasted – Textile talks, Textiles, sustainability and collaboration:
Friday 3 October 2025, 10am-4pm,
At Somerton Parish Rooms + ACEarts, Market Place, Somerton, Somerset, TA11 7NB and online. Book your tickets now! Come and join the conversation…
We’re looking forward to seeing you on Instagram tomorrow!
Penny Wheeler
seam 
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