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Review: Nature’s Symphony
A current exhibition, Nature’s Symphony, by Marilyn Rea-Menzies at the Left Bank Art Gallery in Māwhera/ Greymouth features tapestries, drawings and paintings, each one an exploration of the colours and…
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Fighting gender imbalance… with knitting?
In Denmark knitting is making a political statement. Huzzah!
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Spotify
As an accompaniment to the blog entries a Spotify playlist is curated that reflects the blog entries. To listen either click on the player above or head over to the…
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New books in the library
A lovely donation from a reader of the blog has given the library four books. Traditional and Modern Batik is the 1982 English translation of a Dutch book from 1977…
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Philippine woven textiles
This week a Canadian visitor to the studio mentioned the intriguing banana fibre textiles from the Philippine Islands. The oldest known of these pieces in the world dates back to…
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Threads of Belonging
A new temporary public art show is about to be installed in South Sacramento’s Valley Hi-North Laguna Library. The textiles mural is an homage to the immigrant communities of the…
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Playlist for the week
Most weeks the blog is accompanied by a playlist of audio compiled to reflect the blog entries. A nod to the history of the studio – the original charity in…
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The Long White Cloud
In 1980 Douglas Chowns, a Northland artist, was commissioned to create a mural for the New Zealand Council for Educational Research for their 50th anniversary. A unique hand-printed mixed media…
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Cataloguing the textile collection
As regular readers of the blog will know the textile collection is in the process of being correctly stored and researched, thanks to volunteers. Some real treasures are being unearthed…
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New books in the library
Over the last few weeks some new publications have come into the library. The Web was a quarterly journal that was produced by the New Zealand Spinning, Weaving and Wool-crafts…
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