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welcoming differences book

Welcoming Differences: the book is now available After two years of work developing and prototyping an opportunity ecosystem for female innovators in the textile and... Read more

welcoming differences event

The project has ended, but shemakes is still alive! The shemakes project officially ended on December 31, 2022, with the consignment of the final reports and administrative... Read more

Sunset over the digital weaving machine in the lab

Petra Garajová: shemakes wool symbiosis It was the first day of summer in Iceland when I arrived in Blondous as a shemakes Ambassador. The Icelandic Textile... Read more

fashionbrunch-moldova

Collaboration and community amongst Moldovan fashion startups In one small market - Moldova - shemakes lab ZIPHOUSE, headed by Carolina Tulgara - found that the solution to many... Read more

women in stem

What are the other projects bridging the gender gap in STEM? Everything we do to bridge the gender gap we do as a part of a larger community made up of people working all around the... Read more

TCBL Days 2022

Welcoming Differences: shemakes final conference part of TCBL Days The shemakes hybrid event "Welcoming Differences" on November 30, 2022, is part of the larger TCBL Days annual event... Read more

ambassadors round 2

18 new shemakes ambassadors extend network and values Keeping the activities and values of shemakes alive post-project is one of our priorities. That’s why, as we near the... Read more

Romanian craftswoman

A trip to Borlești: the crafts of the Romanian countryside The Romanian countryside is forever linked, in my mind, to traditional crafts of sewing, embroidery and knitting. In... Read more