Category: Travel
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The Spotify playlist
Most weeks, a playlist on the streaming platform, Spotify, accompanies the entries on the blog. Each of the pieces reflects something in the blog although sometimes the link is obscure. To listen to the playlist click on the player above or head over to Spotify online or in the app and search for “Music to…
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Reader contributions
There are four textile-related exhibitions on in Chicago in the USA at the moment. Jacqueline Surdell is showing at Secrist | Beach, Kiah Celeste at Document, Hildur Ásgeirsdóttir Jónsson at Andrew Rafacz Gallery, and the Art Institute of Chicago has On Loss and Absence: Textiles of Mourning and Survival on show until March next year.
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Flowering Cape
Spring in the Cape of South Africa can be a riot of colour. The native flora of the Cape is 69% endemic, meaning that it grows nowhere else in the world naturally. That makes it an important hotspot for biodiversity. Every Spring the bulbs flower in what looks like unpromising areas, transforming the landscape with…
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Bulawayo
A trip to Bulawayo in September 2025
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The Philosophy of Clothes
A new book from Kate Moran in a Cambridge University Press series looks at clothing from both personal and philosophical angles. Clothes carry meaning as well as being practical. We choose what to wear for meetings, parties, conversations… they make us feel good, attractive, or defend our bodily space. In this book, the author, herself…
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The last blog for a few weeks
This week’s entries are the last before the blog goes on a holiday. For a few weeks we will be away, visiting friends and family in South Africa and Zimbabwe. It is an exciting prospect because I have not seen them since 2017 and we are looking forward to returning to Africa. We are also…
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Textile Curator
The world of contemporary textile art practice is the subject of the Textile Curator website. Helen Adams has set out to teach the world about textile art and artists in blog posts, an artist directory and resources through the site. It is a British-based website with an international outlook and it may be useful to…
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Textile Talk
Every Wednesday a presentation or panel discussion is held by SAQA, Studio Art Quilt Associates in the USA. If you have an hour to spare and want to get a fix, head on over to the website and browse more than 250 Textile Talks using the online index. Fascinating and intriguing, not to mention lots…
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Glass… as a textile?
Glass, that most contradictory of materials, has been used as a textile. Mid-century design in Europe and America took advantage of glass fibre and its unique qualities. The fabrics made from glass fibres are shiny and slippery, echoing the trend then for clean lines and crisp looks in fashion and interiors. A pair of fibreglass…
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A surprise from the collection
This week conserving and cataloguing the textile collection started in the studio. Over the past few months a friend has been working to research the collection items and that has been a Very Useful Thing. That research has been added to the website under the “Textile collection” link and it is filling up nicely. Now…