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This week’s Spotify playlist
Each week a Spotify list is curated to go along with the blog. Each piece on the list is relevant to the blog entries, with a mix of old and…
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The Sony World Photography Awards
The winners of the prestigious Sony World Photography Awards have just been announced. To see the images head on over to the BBC website here. The Photographer of the Year…
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An ancient Chinese scroll animated
This week the next in the series of Conversation and Cloth talks took place in the Regent Theatre in Māwhera Greymouth. This time the theme was Art and Artists and…
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Abdoulaye Konaté
Abdoulaye Konaté is an artist from Mali who uses textiles to comment on politics and environment. In his large-scale works the artist stitches cloths together to create colourful and powerful…
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Conversation and Cloth
This coming Friday is the next instalment of our monthly series of textile talks. Conversation and Cloth is a series that explores the textile collection that is housed upstairs at…
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Murals at Pompeii
Nearly 2000 years ago, the Italian city of Pompeii was obliterated by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. The blast covered the settlement with ash and pumice that preserved, sometimes in…
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This week’s Spotify playlist
Each blog is accompanied by a Spotify playlist, a curated selection of audio that relates in some way to the blog and, occasionally, to current events, such as this week’s…
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Textiles from the Indian Subcontinent
If you have ever fancied learning something about the fascinating textiles from India check out a free online course. Run by the MAP Academy the course is just one of…
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The wild weather
This week the South Island Te Waipounamu of Aotearoa New Zealand is experiencing some dramatic weather. One of the things I loved about living in Shetland was the drama of…
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Yarn at Reefton
On Tuesday the 21st May Reefton is holding its annual fibre day. This year the theme is “Journeys in Yarn” and the speakers will be talking about their experiences as…
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