Tag: collection

  • Articles from elsewhere

    Most weeks, the blog receives contributions from readers to share. A new section has been introduced as part of the revamp of the week’s newsletter: Reader contributions. This section will be short summaries of those links that readers have sent in so others can explore ideas and events from elsewhere. Anyone can send in suggestions…

  • Can you help the blog change?

    In this important year for the blog, its twentieth, it is time to rethink what it is and how it works. You, dear readers, might be able to help. The original idea for the blog was to write about music and textiles from the point of view of Shetland and the textile studio in Yell.…

  • Still Life with Hat, Glasses and Scarf

    Dick Frizzell’s Still Life with Hat, Glasses and Scarf has just been bought for the collection. This limited edition work, number 17 of 24, is a lithgraph. It was created in 1988 and the original, a gouache, is in the Arts House Trust collection. One of Aotearoa New Zealand’s best-known artists for his work referencing…

  • New books for the library

    There are three new books in the library: Design from Peasant Art, Make Your Own Rugs and Central Otago Couture: The Eden Hore Collection. Kathleen Mann’s book about design from colloquial art was published in London by Adam and Charles Black in 1939 and this edition is the reprinted edition from 1952. It is a…

  • Welcome back to the blog

    Hello dear readers, I hope you have all had a good few weeks while the blog has been inactive. It seemed strange not to be writing the weekly words to you all, but the rest has been good and there is plenty to tell! A quick update on the studio. The equipment, as you know,…

  • CTANZ symposium

    Costume and Textiles Aotearoa New Zealand is holding its annual symposium in a couple of weeks in Dunedin. CTANZ is a membership association of enthusiasts, curators, artists, makers, educators, researchers… anyone with an interest in textiles and costumes is able to join and attend symposium at a discounted fee. This year the theme of is…

  • The Web and its Chief Spider

    Recently two sets of booklets, all neatly filed in their own green leatherette-covered folder, have been donated to the studio library. The Web was a “Magazine registered art Post Office Headquarters, Wellington, in the 1980s and was issued once a quarter by the New Zealand Spinning, Weaving and Wool-crafts Society Inc. Founded by Eric Powdrell,…

  • This week’s Spotify playlist

    As usual, this week there is a soundtrack to go with the blog and readers can listen to it by clicking the player above or by searching for the playlist on Spotify. The tracks are related in some way to the entries on the blog, although it might not be obvious what the relationship is.…

  • Visitors to the studio

    As the season turns the flow of visitors to the studio seems to increase. Māwhera Greymouth is at the end of the rail trip from Christchurch Ōtautahi over Arthur’s Pass in the mountains to the West Coast. The train follows the same route as cars and trucks but, instead of going over the mountain it…

  • Maoriland

    In the early years of the twentieth century New Zealand was marketed as a tourist destination as “Maoriland”. Maoriland… the term suggested travel and the romance of distance. It was used on postcards, and posters, and books. All proffered a view of the country as a place where the people and their traditions and culture…