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How The Craft Industry is Helping Block Print Artisans Survive

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Uncovering the intentions and process behind the textile crafts we work with.

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How The Craft Industry is Helping Block Print Artisans Survive

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Traditional Ikat Fabric and Their Stories

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The Resort Jumpsuit: An Inside Look

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The Making Of: Jacquard in Coimbatore, India

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The Making Of: Batik in Indonesia

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The Making Of: Batik Screen Printing in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

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The History of Storytelling Through Textiles

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The Square Top: An Inside Look

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The Split-Back Mandar Shirt: An Inside Look

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The Making Of: Kantha Embroidery in Odisha, India

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The Mandar Shirt: An Inside Look

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5 Common Misconceptions About Artisan-Made Products

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MATTER Turns 5

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The Zero Waste Coat: An Inside Look

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Ethnic Print & Tribal Print: Why We Should Stop Using These Terms

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How To Remove Stains From Artisan-Made Clothing

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Meherab and Koya: Coming Full Circle

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Why Craft Takes Time

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A Dialogue: How Language Affects Our Perception Of Craft

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Rangoli: You Are Welcomed Here

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Get To Know: Our Signature Prints

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Ikat: 4 Homes 1 Craft

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The Reversible Haori: An Inside Look

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The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

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3 Things You Didn’t Know About Indigo

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Get To Know: Mega Vick Wear, Our Fair Factory

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Artisan Made: What Does That Really Mean?

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Natural Dye Tops: An Inside Look

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The Beauty Of Offcuts

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Heritage In Design: A Continuing Narrative

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The Importance Of Good Design

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Slow Craft and Fast Cars

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The Chenelle Jacket: An Inside Look

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How To: Offcut Sewing Tutorial

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How Good Design Can Minimize Waste

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The Colours Would Tell

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The Intention Behind Organic

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A Generational Story

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Amado Gudek: A Collaboration

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The Label You Should Really Care About

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What Is A Social Enterprise?

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Why The World Needs Craft

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6 Best Ethical Fashion Brands

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Red Threads. A Story That We Have Not Yet Told

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Who Made Your Clothes?

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Behind The Calligraphy Motifs

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The Future of Fashion Fabrics – Reducing Environmental Impacts

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Product Launch: The Reversible Pouch

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Pants To See The World In: Ren Ho, Founder of Matter Prints

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Edition Launch: Threads&Hands; Introducing the Jamdani Edition

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Traditional Ikat Fabric and Their Stories

Originating in several countries such as India, Japan, and Indonesia, ikat fabric has been made for centuries by skilled artisans to signify and celebrate their respective communities. Ikat is a technique using resistance dyeing to create one-of-a-kind, handmade textiles. Instead of constructing patterns onto fabric, ikat weavers dye threads with a design in mind prior to the […]

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The Resort Jumpsuit: An Inside Look

5 years on and we’ve made a jumpsuit for almost every need and occasion. The Classic Jumpsuit made skeptics a believer with its bathroom-friendly design. The All Day Jumpsuit takes you from day to night (hence the name) and is easily the most airplane-friendly style we’ve got. In fact, our #mattertribe community loved it so […]

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The Making Of: Jacquard in Coimbatore, India

What is Jacquard? The Jacquard craft was invented in 1804 as a mechanical weaving technique used for more complicated patterns such as textiles with intricate designs and patterned knitwear. One of the very first looms with an automatic production function, the Jacquard loom, named after its creator, Joseph Marie Jacquard, is considered to be one […]

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The Making Of: Batik in Indonesia

What is Batik? Batik is a wax-resist dyeing method that originated in Indonesia. The word itself originated either from Javanese word Tik, meaning to dot, or Amba, meaning to write. However, because the craft predates written records, there is still a historical and cultural debate of whether the roots of this art form was imported […]

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The Making Of: Batik Screen Printing in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Batik screen printing is an innovative derivative of its traditional counterpart; batik is a wax-resist dyeing craft with its roots in Indonesia, and in October of 2009 it was lauded as a Masterpiece of Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO. Batik, as seen from a traditional lens, is a familiar art form to […]

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The History of Storytelling Through Textiles

Ever since the first textile was created, there have been stories woven into fabric. Whether it be literally or figuratively, textile design does not exist without a narrative. The NY Fashion Center believes, “The use of textiles links the myriad cultures of the world and defines the way they clothed themselves, adorn their surroundings and […]

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The Square Top: An Inside Look

Designed by our Product Creative, the Square Top began as a solo personal project. She wore it to work the next day and everyone on the team (and we literally mean everyone) wanted one of our own. We loved the angled sleeve, open slit neckline, boxy fit, and stitched details. Most of all – we […]

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The Split-Back Mandar Shirt: An Inside Look

5 years in and you’ve been our sounding board since day 1. Through continual feedback (by way of IG messages, email replies, and face time), we’ve made edits here and there based on what you shared. When we asked what styles you wanted to see more of, you told us tops. Specifically, more tops with […]

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The Making Of: Kantha Embroidery in Odisha, India

Embroidery is a detailed craft of adding decorative accents by putting needle to thread. Kantha is a traditional embroidery craft that began 500 centuries ago in West Bengal and Odisha by means of reusing and recycling dhotis, sarees and other pieces of clothing Bengalis were reluctant to throw away. Essentially, upcycling – the old school […]

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The Mandar Shirt: An Inside Look

Something that must be noted is that the term “Mandarin collar” is already a uniquely Western notion – the word “Mandarin”, derived from the Portuguese term Mandarim, is a Western term used to describe the 官 bureaucrat scholar from the government of Imperial China. More specifically, this Western notion of the “Mandarin collar” is most […]

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5 Common Misconceptions About Artisan-Made Products

With the growing popularity of sustainable and artisan-made fashion, fashion brands dedicated to the two are permeating the fashion market. For five years now, we’ve worked with a curative philosophy inspired by tradition, sourcing heritage motifs to continue the narrative of generational craft within artisan communities. Most of the time these are small family businesses […]

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MATTER Turns 5

A couple months ago, the team got together to talk about how we should celebrate our 5th birthday. We’ve always been big on birthdays, from pants parties to a big farewell to our shophouse home in the tailor’s district of Chinatown. But this one feels more significant, and we wanted to go beyond our usual […]

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