Indigenous Arctic Fish Skin Heritage: Sustainability, Craft and Material Innovation

Elisa Palomino's (UAL) PhD thesis was successfully submitted February 2022.

The work covers a wide range of subjects related to the use of fish skin, with an appendix dedicated to the work Elisa did while being a researcher in FISHSkin EU Horizon 2020-MSCA-RISE project; see page 473 for the detailed work done as part of the project.

Link to Elisa Palomino's PhD

"Wood, mushrooms and fish as the new stars of fashion catwalks" by Cecilie Jensen

The fashion industry is looking for alternatives!

A focused article by Cecilie Jensen, published in Horizon - The EU Research & Innovation Magazine, October 2021, including a short interview with our researcher and leading coordinator Ayelet Karmon.

Link to the article

Open access peer reviewed articles, by and with FISHSkin researchers

Elisa Palomin (UAL), Katrin Káradóttir (IUA), Lotta Rhame, Joseph Boon

Indigenous Arctic Fish skin clothing traditions: Cultural and ecological impacts on Fashion Higher Education

Published in: Around the Campfire – Resilience and Intelligence, Cumulus Conference Rovaniemi.

Elisa Palomin (UAL), Joseph Boon

Preservation of the Hezhen people’s fish skin tradition through fashion education

Published in: Textiles, Identity and Innovation: In TouchProceedings of the 2nd International Textile Design Conference (D_TEX 2019), June 10, 2020.

Elisa Palomino (UAL), Gustavo Defeo (ArsT)

Material Design Innovation: Fish Leather, a new environmentally friendly material

Published in: 'Design Research for Change' (DR4C) symposium at the Design Museum, London, UK.

Elisa Palomin (UAL), Katrin Káradóttir (IUA), Edwin Phiri (UAL)

Indigenous Fish Skin Craft Revived Through Contemporary Fashion

Published in: International Foundation of Fashion Technologies Institutes. IFFTI conference. Kent, Ohio USA.

Elisa Palomin (UAL), Katrin Káradóttir (IUA)

The case of Fish skin, a historical material assimilated as an innovative sustainable material for fashion

Published in: In Fashion: Culture, Commerce, Craft, and Identity.