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  • Peg Moorhouse’s loom

    Readers of the blog will know about Peg Moorhouse, the damask weaver from Aotearoa New Zealand. Peg’s loom is with her family at the moment and they are looking for…

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  • Cataloguing and photographing the textile collection

    The studio in Greymouth Māwhera is continuing to evolve as more pieces are added to the collection and as we prepare the space for the equipment to come over from…

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  • CuzyT

    The recent trip to the Costume and Textile Association of Aotearoa New Zealand symposium in Whangārei included a surprising discovery. The North of the North Island/ Te Ika-a-Māui is home…

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  • A new use for newspaper

    Newspaper has a new lease of life in the work of South African Tamlin Blake. Tamlin Blake’s art is concerned with the ways in which materials can be used and…

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  • The Price of Memory

    In 2015, the National Gallery of Jamaica hosted an exhibition of 7 women artists. One of those artists was Miriam Hinds Smith. Miriam Hinds Smith is a Jamaican-born artist with…

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  • The Spotify playlist

    Each week a playlist is compiled to complement the blog articles. The audio is on the Spotify platform and each piece has some relevance to the blog articles. Sometimes the…

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  • A visit to the white herons

    South of Māwhera Greymouth is the settlement of Ōkārito. A couple of weekends ago I spent three days in the area, camping out in a thunderstorm and enjoying the beautiful…

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  • The Loving Stitch

    A new book has been donated to the studio library: The Loving Stitch. A history of knitting and spinning in New Zealand, the book was published in 1998 by Auckland…

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  • Outlaws: Fashion Renegades of 80s London

    A new exhibition is about to open in London’s Fashion and Textiles Museum, celebrating the fashion of the 1980s alternative scene. In 1985, Leigh Bowery, designer and performance artist, opened…

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  • This week’s Spotify playlist

    Each week the blog is accompanied by a curation of songs and audio. Each of the pieces in the Spotify playlist has been chosen to reflect the articles on the…

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