Teazle
About
Teazle is an independent magazine about the curious side of fashion: garments, techniques, artists, paintings and the people behind them.
Why Teazle?
Lady Teazle is the fashion-mad young wife in Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s comedy The School for Scandal, first performed at Drury Lane in 1777, whose taste for expensive clothes alarms her husband. A teasel, spelled teazle in older English, is the thistle whose dried, hooked seed heads were used for centuries to raise the nap on woollen cloth. Fashion folly and textile craft: between them they cover what this magazine is about.
What we publish
Evergreen pieces, not news. Long reads about objects, garments, paintings, exhibitions and influence; short finds built around one artefact; explanations of how a technique works and where it came from; profiles of designers, artisans and patrons; a glossary of the words of dress and textile; and a Workbench of free browser tools for makers, each with the story behind it.
Every factual claim is sourced, and every piece ends with its sources. Images come from museum open-access programmes and other openly licensed collections, and each one is credited with its holder and licence.
Who writes it
Teazle is edited by a small independent team, credited as “The Teazle editors”. The editors choose every topic, review every draft against its sources and decide what is published.
How we use AI
We use Anthropic’s Claude as a research and drafting assistant: it gathers sources, checks dates against at least two references, drafts text in our house style and prepares open-access images with their licence data. A human editor reviews each piece before it is published. We do not publish AI-generated images as documentation of real garments, people or artworks; any AI-generated illustration is labelled as such in its caption. Read the full editorial policy.
Contact
Corrections, rights questions and everything else: hello@teazle.art.
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