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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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Sound engineering – bower bird style
The great bower bird is known for its mating rituals that take place in tall arched structures made with gatherings from their native bush in New Guinea and Australia. The…
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The Australian autograph textile with a South African link
In 1894, as was a custom in those days, a quilt was created to raise funds for a new Anglican church in Sunbury, Australia. People were able to subscribe to…
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Kate Beck’s Impossible Evolutions
The natural world is almost impossible to imagine in its complexity and intertwined relationships and yet much of that world is under threat. Using Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) Kate Beck…
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Spotify this week
Each week a playlist is curated to reflect the blog articles. The whole playlist is available on the Spotify platform and can be heard by clicking on the player above…
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Slow Violence: Anna Madeleine Raupach
The Australian artist, Anna Madeleine Raupach, uses textiles and textile techniques to explore social, political and cultural aspects of today through science and technology. In the series, Slow Violence, the…
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Max – the 8 year old fashion designer
A fascination with fashion sometimes strikes at an early age. Meet Max Alexander, who, at age eight, has become an Instagram star. Having started to post on Instagram so that…
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Wool in the world
As the studio in Māwhera Greymouth gathers speed – pictures to follow soon – so the hunt for wool yarns continues. Wool in Aotearoa New Zealand used to be Big…
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Navigating the blog
This week a regular reader of the blog mentioned that it could be a little difficult to navigate. Each week, as you know, an email goes out with all the…
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This week’s Spotify playlist
Each week the blog is accompanied by a Spotify playlist of pieces that are somehow connected to the entries. To listen to the playlist you can click on the player…
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