Media

Talking about slow clothing and natural fibres is part of what we do.

Jane Milburn chatted with Wandering Journo Nance Haxton for her  Streets of Your Town podcast about Jane’s recent Churchill Fellowship investigating the way we dress and how to make better choices to become independent of fast fashion.

Jane Milburn featured on the Remarkable Women, Powerful Stories podcast with Zonta International in October 2023.

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Jane Milburn talked about Slow Clothing on the Textiles & Tea podcast as Edition 144. Listen here

Jane Milburn spoke with The Guardian’s Karishma Luthria about how developing agency and a personal relationship with clothes can improve wellbeing.

Jane Milburn chatted with Crispina ffrench on her Rags to Riches podcast

In Moree for Painted River Project, Jane spoke with Lauren Marer from The Guardian

Queensland Country Life reported Jane Milburn OAM for service to fashion sustainability

Jane chatted with Alexx Stuart from Low Tox Life about her forever strategy.

Sense-making in a changing world is Morag Gamblé’s new podcast and it was great to chat with her about slow clothing, which Morag described as a ‘beautiful everyday practical philosophy that is accessible to everyone everywhere, that brings us to wholeness through living more simply, creatively and fairly’. Tune in here

Jane wrote about Embracing the unusual in the Summer edition of Ruth magazine

ABC’s Lucy McDonald interviewed Jane Milburn for a story about sustainable fashion actions

Slow Clothing featured in ABC Organic Gardener Magazine Issue 113, early summer 2019

Slow clothing in ABC Organic Gardener magazine OG113_066-071

Robyn Cook hosted Jane Milburn in her Stories from the Red Couch series

ABC Radio Brisbane’s Rebecca Levingston chats to Jane Milburn about her slow clothing advocacy, Churchill Fellowship and the WornOUT?2019 refashion showcase, listen below (October 10, 2019)

Legendary rural reporter Robin McConchie interviewed Jane about her Churchill Fellowship, October 2019

Commenting on sustainable clothing and waste issues, with ABC RN Drive‘s Patricia Karvelas

Sewing outside the lines, a video about our upcycling masterclass session at The Edge, SLQ

Chatting clothing in a permaculture context with Robyn Rosenfeldt PIP Magazine May 2019

ABC News story about dumping on charities highlights our issue with stuff, January 2019

In December 2018, Slow Clothing was profiled by The Fashion Advocate

The Great Lakes Advocate featured Slow Clothing in September, and we did TV interviews with 7 and 9.

Worn OUT story in Your Time magazine by Styleboomer Kay McMahon about Mending our Ways

We were at the Sunshine Coast Council’s fabric festival in June and featured on Living Smart

Revive story in August by Peta McEachern in The Source News

Slow Clothing was featured in The Land’s 2018 Merino Annual in August.

In Perth for the Common Threads project, we were interviewed by the Hills Gazette

Sydney Observer magazine featured Jane Milburn and Slow Clothing Sydney Observer story

Wagga Weekly wrote Everything old is new again wagga weekly

Ahead of a visit to Wagga Wagga, The Daily Advertiser wrote featured Slow Clothing

Jane Milburn was interviewed for The Conversation about visible mending.

Jane Milburn chatted Slow Clothing with Angie Ayers of Spirit Radio Breakfast, Western Australia

Kay McMahon wrote about Slow Clothing in Your Time magazine

Queensland Country Life story about slow clothing: Dressing is an agricultural act

Jane Milburn was interviewed by Nina Gbor for RiotACT about the slow clothing philosophy

Ahead of a talk at Artisan, Jane Milburn chatted slow clothing with ABC Weekend’s Loretta Ryan

Jane Milburn talked upcycling on ABC National Evenings with Tatjana Clancy

Slow clothing culture, journal article – Jane Milburn HEIA_Vol 24 No2 FINAL

Jane Milburn chatted sewing and slow clothing with Sam Stove on Talking Lifestyle  radio

Living lightly in everyday practice – State Library of Queensland Design Online article by Jane Milburn

Slow clothing in a material world – Jane Milburn at TEDxQUT 2017

Yours magazine featured Textile Beat and other craftivists in September 2017.

Ruth Magazine slow clothing column (Spring 2017 edition) featured Emma Williamson

Ruth Magazine (Winter 2017 edition) gets slow clothing and plans for a regular column

West End Magazine featured slow clothing in the Winter 2017 issue

Creative over Capital – ABC online interviewed Jane Milburn about valuing our creativity

Jane Milburn talked with ABC Capricornia’s Jacquie Mackay ahead of a Women as Leaders talk and Slow Clothing workshop series in Isaac Regional Council in March 2017

Changing the fabric of life – Honestly Woman magazine featured Jane Milburn’s story in the March 2017 issue –  Jane Milburn (4)

Seven Sunrise interviewed Jane Milburn about the environmental footprint of clothing

The environmental impact of clothing  – Jane Milburn  was interviewed by ABCNews24

Our clothing habits are hurting the environment – Jane Milburn spoke with ABC Online News

Journal of the Home Economics Institute of Australia published paper by Jane Milburn     Valuing old skills in a new world milburn-j-heia_vol23no2

Jane Milburn talked slow clothing with Alex Sloan on ABC 666 Canberra 13 September 2016

Jane Milburn interviewed on recycled fashion in the Newcastle Herald, 9 September 2016

Textile Beat talked about natural fibres in the September 2016 issue of National Geographic Kids Wild Cities article National Geographic Kids

Jane Milburn was invited to write a comment piece for SBS The Feed’s report on Slow Fashion.

Textile Beat was included in ReNew magazine feature Mottainai vs Methane: The case for textile recycling. ReNew magazine textile recycling article 2016

Jane Milburn chatted with Mel Kettle on A Great Recipe for Life podcast

Jane Milburn spoke with ABC 702 Sydney’s Wendy Harmer about slow clothing

Jane Milburn chatted to Emma Griffiths ABC612 about slow clothing and Fashion Fix-Up

Central Coast Gosford Express Advocate featured slow clothing on April 15 2016

Fibreline published Jane Milburn’s story dress with creativity in March 2016 issue

The Parkes Champion-Post wrote about upcycling workshops in Parkes NSW on March 22 2016

Peppermint Magazine linked into The Slow Clothing Project  on March 1 2016

Jane Milburn spoke with Kerry Harris from ABC Online about The Slow Clothing Project.

ABC Sunshine Coast’s Jasmin Midgley talked with Jane Milburn about slow clothing.

In this 2UE interview, Jane Milburn talked about a more mindful approach to clothing.

Jane Milburn’s story featured in Down Under Textiles Issue 22 downunder textiles article

Jane shared her wardrobe story with The Sunday Mail’s U on Sunday magazine Jane Milburn U on Sunday Q&A 3 January 2016

We loved working with students at Fairholme Fashion Week, as reported in Toowoomba’s The Chronicle newspaper.

This ABC onine story 9 September 2015 reported on the global movement to slow clothing.

Turning trash into flash was a recent story on 7 Local News

Mackay Mercury reported how Clothing with conscience takes little more than creativity

Grass Roots Magazine features Sew it Again: read Grass Roots June July FINAL with cover

• Listen to Jane with ABC Rockhampton‘s Breakfast announcer Jacquie Mackay
• Read ABC Online and the Morning Bulletin‘s stories from Yeppoon workshops
• Ahead of Fashion Revolution Day on April 24, Jane spoke with ABC Drive’s Rebecca Levingston

Clothes have stories and hold memories

The genesis of Textile Beat is a History Skirt with a story to tell.The skirt was created as a way to use a collection of lace remnants (including white cotton bobbles) leftover from childhood clothing made by Elizabeth Capon for her daughter Jane Milburn.

After holding on to these off-cuts for decades after her mother passed away, Jane conceived an idea to put them to good use – by sewing them as frills on two panels of a gored skirt, with the other panels created from a number of unworn garments (linen jacket and shorts, silk dress etc).

This History Skirt, right, demonstrated the potential for using existing unworn clothing to refashion and repurpose ‘new’ clothing for pleasure, reward and sustainability – and so Textile Beat and the 365-day Sew it Again campaign arrived.

Among other slow fashion projects, Jane Milburn writes a column for Fairfax Agricultural Media.

Stitch in Time column by Jane Milburn in Smart Farmer magazine, December 2014

Stitch in Time column by Jane Milburn in Smart Farmer magazine, October 2014

Stitch in Time column by Jane Milburn in Smart Farmer, August 2014

Stitch in Time column by Jane Milburn in Smart Farmer June 2014

Stitch in Time column by Jane Milburn – Smart Farmer magazine – February 2014