Tag: craft

  • Jeremy Frey

    “Jeremy Frey (b. 1978, Passamaquoddy Indian Township Reservation, Maine) is one of the foremost Passamaquoddy craftspeople of his generation. “

  • From a Garden in the Antipodes

    Evelyn Hayes, the pseudonym of Mary Ursula Bethell, published a book of poems about her love of plants and gardens in 1929. These poems cemented the reputation of this New Zealand poet, who had an unusual and somewhat unorthodox life. In the verses she describes the life of gardens, those who inhabit them (including a…

  • Reminiscence and memory

    This week I am in Pōneke Wellington where Festival for the Future, an event to bring young people together, is taking place. While the group I am with is at the Festival I am researching in the National Library for a project to do with oral histories on the Coast. The Library is home to…

  • CTANZ symposium

    The Costume and Textile Association of New Zealand is fast approaching. Here is the latest newsletter from the organisation about it. I am doing a talk about Shetland Tweed and there are plenty of other informative and useful talks and events to be inspired by. https://mailchi.mp/58d3e2113851/ctanz-social-fabric-symposium-2024-i-speaker-line-up?e=cdce4db450

  • Nastassja Swift

    Virginia-based African-American artist, Nastassja Swift, uses fibres to create sculptures and performances that tell stories about “geographical histories, ancestry, ritual practices and community”. In her work, Nastassja Swift uses details to impart knowledge to her audience that this is about and for them. Whether it be hairstyles or gesture, language or iconography, the needle-felted work…

  • Margery Blackman

    Ōtepoti Dunedin Art Gallery is currently hosting an exhibition of tapestries by Margery Blackman. Margery Blackman, Hon Curator and Dave Rapp, Exhibition Designer with Kahu huruhuru with tāniko border, from Te Ika-a-Māui, given to the museum ca 1930. D32.295, Tūhura Otago Museum Collection. Pictured during the installation of Nga Taonga no nga Wahine – Treasures from Maori Women,…

  • Kimathi Mafafo

    Kimathi Mafafo is an artist from the Northern Cape of South Africa. With National Diplomas in Fine Arts and in Film and Video, the artist uses her work to empower women and to question gender stereotypes and inequality in Africa. This page from the Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery shows some of the embroideries that were on…

  • Edonomy

    During the Edo period in Japan (1603 to 1868) what is probably the world’s first ecological civilisation flourished. Although feudal and run by a military dictatorship, Japan at this time was governed by regulations that allowed little or no waste. When the Tokugawa shoguns took over there was a significant scarcity of wood caused by…

  • An Egyptian addition

    The blog this week starts with a new addition to the collection. Thanks to a reader who thought of the collection when chatting to a friend about an inheritance, there are now two pieces from Egypt in store to research and share. In the 18th and 19th Centuries Egyptian Revival swept the world but it…

  • This week’s blog

    Without our readers the blog would not exist. This week all the entries are from links that people have sent in to share as well as to a new addition for the collection that came about because of a reader. It is a joy to get messages from across the globe and a delight to…