Weaving Beings: Conversations with The Lissome

Today we are joined by María Baños, Creative Director, Visual Artist, and founder of the creative and curatorial studio Art Studies as well as the female movement Muses of Now. María’s multidisciplinary practice spans film, art publications, and scenography, always connected by a distinct sense of depth, intuition, and empowered feminine storytelling. In this conversation, we explore the core them...

In our latest episode of Weaving Beings: Conversations with The Lissome , we journey into the landscapes of soil and fibre. Our guest is Emma Hague, a clothing and textiles systems ecologist, and founding director of South West England Fibreshed , Bristol Textile Quarter and Bristol Cloth . With a background in political and economic anthropology, Indigenous rights, natural resource development an...

How do we stay rooted when the world feels as if it’s unravelling, and what new forms of wisdom can emerge from mythic imagination? In this episode of Weaving Beings Season Two, host Hardeep Kaur is joined by storyteller, mythologist and elder Michael Meade for a conversation about finding meaning in liminal times. From his childhood discovery of myth to his lifelong work with mythology and ritual...

In this episode of Weaving Beings , Season Two, host Hardeep Kaur is joined by writer and sustainability journalist Anna Roos van Wijngaarden to explore the delicate art of listening – as a writer, as a traveller and as a guest on the land. The conversation traces Anna’s recent journey into the Peruvian Amazon, where she met designers and researchers working with native materials like kapok and sh...

How do we live in alignment when the world feels out of balance — and what becomes possible when we do? In this episode of Weaving Beings Season Two , host Hardeep Kaur is joined by writer, filmmaker, and cultural thinker Lily Cole for a conversation that moves between early activism and spiritual presence, from fashion runways to forest stillness. Together, they explore the power of storytelling...

In this opening episode, host Hardeep Kaur is joined by Dörte de Jesus, founder and editor-in-chief of The Lissome, who introduces the core theme of the new edition: resilience. In this thoughtful and expansive exchange, Dörte shares what led her to explore resilience and offers an intimate look into the creative process behind the magazine. From curating contributors and selecting interviewees li...

In this episode, Hardeep Kaur is in conversation with Ania Zoltkowski – a sustainable fashion-textile designer and educator. We learn about: Ania’s early start in fashion design; how these early experiences showed her the limitations of the mass scale fashion industry; her desire to learn how a new vision of craft and making could be realised; connecting with craft from her own roots and finding e...

In this episode, Hardeep Kaur is in conversation with Andrés Altamirano, an Ecuadorian-born visual artist and photographer working primarily between New York and Latin America. Andrés’ work explores the intricate facets of identity, culture, and language within transitional spaces. In this conversation, we discuss Andrés’ identity and using his passion for story-telling to share the richness of hi...

In this episode, Hardeep Kaur is in conversation with Dr Amy Twigger Holroyd – Associate Professor of Fashion and Sustainability at Nottingham School of Art & Design. We learn about: Amy's decades long work as a designer, maker, researcher and writer in the fields of fashion and sustainability; her own experience and learnings in creating a knitwear brand; building a participatory culture...

In this episode, Hardeep Kaur is in conversation with Virginia Vigiliar – a writer and curator exploring justice, ecology, feminism, and art through a poetic lens. We learn about: Virginia's own early questioning of the systems in which she was immersed, the process of de-conditioning from these systems, activating the craft of story-telling and ritual to help others in their own seeking, harn...

In this episode, Hardeep Kaur is in conversation with Dr Mila Burcikova – a designer, maker, and researcher at Centre for Sustainable Fashion, London College of Fashion. We learn about: Mila’s journey as a maker and academic in the field of sustainable fashion, her current research project, Life in Clothes, her thoughts on the interconnections and parallels between fashion-making and farming pract...

Welcome to Weaving Beings, Conversations with The Lissome . These conversations are here to herald in the latest edition, number four, entitled Love Ethic . We speak to the conscious creators who feature in the magazine to explore their ideas and inspirations as it relates to bell hooks’ iconic work – All About Love: New Visions . This first episode finds Dörte de Jesus, founder and editorial dire...