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Spotify this week
Each week the blog features a curated playlist of audio on Spotify, the streaming platform. The playlist is related to the articles on the blog. To listen, click on the…
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Walking Two Worlds
In these days of climate emergency, fashion can be a platform to raise awareness. Quannah Chasinghorse, an American supermodel who is from Oglala Lakota and Hän Gwich’in tribes, has been…
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Peter Collingwood in New Zealand
In 1984, Peter Collingwood, the British weaver who was the first living craftsperson to have work exhibited in London’s Victoria and Albert Museum, visited Auckland. The New Zealand Spinners, Weavers…
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Textile song, work and memory
Weaving has been associated with music and rhythm for centuries, a strong connection that helps guide the weaving itself and also makes evident the links between personal practice and growth…
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Irene Sharraff
Costumes are always an important ingredient in making a successful play or musical. Meet Irene Sharraff. Irene trained in fashion illustration and excelled in colour and historical details, employing these…
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The Spotify playlist
In this, the first of the playlists for 2025, a selection of audio pieces has been collected to go along with the blog. To listen, click on the player above…
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Natural colours
To the first-time visitor New Zealand Aotearoa seems to offer little in the way of natural colour, especially in the heavily wooded South of Te Waipounamu/ The South Island. Green…
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Janet Frame House
56 Eden Street, Oamaru, was once the home of Janet Frame, the famous New Zealand author. The Janet Frame House has been restored and is opened in the summer months…
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The crocheted wharenui
A few months back the blog featured Lissy Robinson-Cole and Rudi Robinson-Cole’s crocheted sculpture: Wharenui Harikoa. A wharenui is a large building for people to gather in and is usually…
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Rata
New Zealand’s native pōhutakawa is probably the best known of its trees, particularly because of its flowers of red that appear at Christmas. It has a relative, rata, that also…
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