Oblique is a twice-yearly magazine reading the world of art, craft, music and dress through the rooms, workbenches and record shelves of particular people…

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A chair against a bare studio wall — photograph by StockSnap, CC0 — Plate 01 — Studio wall, Lisbon

An embroidered garment in scarlet and green — Art Institute of Chicago via Rawpixel, CC0 — Plate 02 — Garment study, no. 9

Portrait plate — photograph by Korede Adenola on Pexels — Plate 03

Portrait plate — photograph by Foto Sushi on Pexels — Plate 04

Issue Seven — The Long Room Nine features, 148 pages

01

The Bindery at Rue Sorel Thirty-one years of hand-sewn signatures, and the four apprentices keeping the room warm.

Words by Ines Fournel
Photographs by Tomas Vaz Spring 26

02

Everything Yara Keeps in the Blue Cabinet A ceramicist unpacks 214 objects, none of them for sale, most of them chipped.

Words by Delphine Arndt
Photographs by Nour Hachem Spring 26

03

Notes on Wearing the Same Coat for Eleven Years On mending, on stubbornness, and on the argument against a second one.

Words by Marek Sobota Spring 26

04

A Record Shop That Refuses to Alphabetise Sixteen crates, no signage, and a filing logic only its owner can explain.

Words by Priya Ramnath
Photographs by Elsa Kirchner Spring 26

05

The Colourist Who Only Prints at Dusk Why the last two hours of daylight produce a green that a lamp never will.

Words by Ottoline Vance Spring 26

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