Tag: craft
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Crochet a Triops…
Triops are small crustaceans that are sometimes sold as pets (somewhat like Sea Monkeys) and descend unchanged from a line hundreds of millions of years old. Now the crocheters amongst you can create your very own Triops, thanks to the United States National Park Service. If minuscule is not your cup of crustacea, how about…
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Poor Things
The wildly entertaining, thought-provoking, rollicking, surreal, dark and funny film, Poor Things, has the most wonderful costumes created by Holly Waddington and comes with an amazing soundtrack by Jerskin Fendrix. In this film, the majority of which is not shot on location, the exploration of growing up and experiencing life through the eyes of its…
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Shelburne Museum
Having grown up in New York with her parents, Henry and Louisine Havemeyer, and their collection of important Asian and European art, at the age of 19 Electra Havemeyer Webb decided to follow their example and begin her own collection of American art. Much of the Henry and Louisine Havemeyer collection is now in the…
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This week’s Spotify playlist
Each week a playlist on the streaming app, Spotify, is curated to go alongside the blog articles. You can listen to the playlist on the player above. If you do not have a subscription you will only be able to hear a few seconds of each track. A free subscription will be interrupted with advertisements…
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Sutton Hoo meets Aotearoa New Zealand
The Sutton Hoo mound is a medieval burial site, the most impressive in Europe, and includes funerary riches held within a 27 metre-long ship. The history of the ship and its contents is fascinating and it continues to be a focus for understanding Anglo-Saxon life. One of the projects that has come from the discovery…
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A piupiu for Sydney
Piupiu are woven Māori garments that are worn either around the waist or over the shoulder. The Biennale of Sydney, an event that gathers together artists from across the world, commissioned the art piece from kairaranga (weavers) Hone Bailey, Paehoro Konui, Merānia Heke-Chase and Manu Fox who created it over three months, working on it…
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The artistry of Africa’s forest dwellers
The people who live in the equatorial forests of Central Africa have a unique sense of artistry in their textiles and music. These people, although once all defined as “Pygmy”, a pejorative term that is no longer used, have a strong connection to their forest home and make use of its resources to create, amongst…
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How AI is helping the Indian carpet industry
These days the rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI), machines that can compile and analyse enormous amounts of data to create just about anything, is concerning for some and a boon to others. AI has been the predicted next stage in the evolution of computers and technology and nowadays it is seemingly everywhere. The technology can…
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A skull of lace
The Swedish textile artist, Esther Magnusson, has created a life-size skull out of lace. The skull was created from old bobbin lace made from cotton or linen and was stitched and glued together with cotton thread and wood glue. Wood glue was also used to starch the piece. The artist added teeth, crocheting them as…
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Travels in the South
Over the festive season we travelled through the central part of Te Waipounamu/ the South Island of Aotearoa New Zealand. The journey of more than 1,500 kms, once all the side trips were taken into account, took ten days and covered some of the most spectacular scenery and sights of the island. One of the…