Vezel
2024-2025role: designer of the magazine
March 2025 issue 01
“2025-01 • first edition of this year.
Blue and textiles, that produces wonderful stories in the Spring issue of Vezel. Beautiful dyed indigo fabrics from Mali, blueprints that are hard to beat, patched jeans with the Japanese boro technique, flowering flax in the garden for an important experiment. With the article about blueprinting with the help of the gelliplate, you bring the blue of the summer skies into your home. And making felt mosaics with children, that is something you don’t want to miss. Gaudi is nothing compared to it.
/ by Annelies Diekman, translated into English.
> For the cover I chose a work by Ulie van Ittersum Haveman. Her article starts on page 20.
@vezelmagazine”
December 2024 issue 04
“2024-04 • fourth and last edition of this year.
In the last edition of 2024, there is extra attention for idiosyncratic fashion and accessories. With special combinations of material and technique and reuse of materials. Such as crocheted jewelry made of silver wire, activist skirts, a nuno felt vest, colorful crocheted hats and clothing, a shibori blouse, no waste wrap skirts, a handbag with relief and costume art. In addition, you can also read about working with a large loom, an installation of intruders, a textile tree and part two of ‘knitting with newspaper’.
> For the cover of this edition I chose to focus on a detail of a skirt from the article of Floor de Bruijn. The details in that piece are super cool and the color speaks to me, which I think was a really good suggestion to be on a cover. And it’s purple, I mean come on.
@vezelmagazine”
September 2024 issue 03
“2024-03 • third edition of this year.
Textiles are all around us. They are the warm sweater in the fall, a comforting rag doll of a child. Textiles are soft, flexible, warm and an inspiration to work with. And to work with again and again, because textiles lend themselves perfectly to reuse. That is why the new Vezel magazine is dedicated to recycling and upcycling this time.
45 pages full of personal textile stories with lots of practical information about different pieces of work and the techniques and materials used. Inspiring to read and to get started with yourself!
> This weekend we will be at the Ambacht in Beeld Festival with Vezel. So hopefully see you there! It’s in the NDSM/loods in Amsterdam.
@vezelmagazine“
June 2024 issue 02
“The second issue of the year is out now! The theme is ‘traveling’ and if you like to travel… you can indulge yourself. We travel to learn knitting on the Fair Isle, or buy wool on Ameland to make a piece of jewelry. We stay at home and make inner journeys to retrieve and shape acquired experiences or memories. We meet the Karenni women from Myanmar. They demonstrate their strength using traditional techniques. I worked on this edition partly with sadness, just like the rest of the Vezel team. Our editor Erna van Mil passed away suddenly. My thoughts and presence are with her.❤️
If you would like to contribute to our next edition, you can submit something before July 10. We would like to invite everyone to share knowledge, skills and experience. Take a look at our website for more information, or order a publication there. www.vezel.org @vezelmagazine“
March 2024 issue 01
“I am exited to announce that I am the new designer of the magazine ‘Vezel’. I started working on the first magazine at the beginning of January, and it is full of spring vibes as you can see on the cover. The theme of number 1 is ‘Flora & Fauna’ and it came out last week.
There is plenty of experimenting with thread, paint, cloth and wool. You can enjoy and start your own project(s) with all those creative techniques with textiles.
For more info take a look on the website www.vezel.org
On the website you can find the links to the people in the magazine as well.
Thanks a lot team of ‘Vezel’ for welcoming me into the team, all sweet people. And thanks Marie-José for handing over the designer role and teaching me so much already, and making me ready to take over.”