Tag: textiles
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Studio update
The new studio is being prepared to begin opening up in mid-January. With newly-painted floors and rugs down, the space is looking bright and cheery. There is an exhibition of two garments at the moment in the window – a Japanese haori and a black boxy jacket, both of which are attracting passersby. There is…
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Waving at fairies
At this time of year when magical things happen for many people across the globe, what could be more apt than this…? https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1037478179768402 or this…?
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What’s on Spotify this week
This playlist features: Songlines by Nyoongi and Rüdiger Oppermann Australia meets Europe in Songlines, a piece that combines plucked strings with didgeridoo. Songlines are the walking music that Aboriginal people memorise to travel safely and to pass on ancestral routes. In a Landscape by John Cage, performed by Alexei Lubimov American composer, John Cage, is…
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Baboon
Baboons, those Bad Boys of the Old World, have a reputation… Wily, cunning, vicious… these are all words that are used to describe our primate cousins. Baboons are seen as pests because they plunder houses, and farms, and take food right out of tourists’ hands. They roam freely, seemingly wherever they want. After all who…
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The Spotify playlist
Each week a playlist of audio is created to go along with the blog. The playlist, on the Spotify platform, is made up of songs and sounds that have some relevance to the blog. For those with a paid subscription to Spotify the music will play uninterrupted, either on the player above or in the…
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Iconic Australian design
In the 1980s and ’90s, jumpers in Australia became startling. Beginning with Coogi, a fashion label first established in Melbourne under the name Cuggi, the bright colours and bold patterning of these sweaters took the entertainment world by storm with The Notorious B.I.G. (Biggie Smalls) name-checking them in his lyrics and sporting the look. Coogi style…
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Cataloguing the collection
The textile collection is in the process of being catalogued… at a distance. The collection, currently housed upstairs in the Regent Theatre in Māwhera Greymouth, is making its way gradually into the new studios. It is an ideal time to catalogue the pieces. Each one is photographed back and front, and then details are also…
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Weaving and technology
This article has been supported with research using AI and has been fact-checked and corrected by hand. To read the original AI results go to the bottom of the page where it is copied and pasted verbatim. The craft of weaving is one of the oldest in the world and has a long history of…
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AI and image generation
In researching this week’s blog entries Artificial Intelligence (AI) was a tool. Harnessing the power of data to create new images is powerful but it currently has limitations. The images on this page were created using AI. By typing prompts into the AI platform new images were created to illustrate the articles on the blog.…
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Technology
This week’s blog entries are all to do with technology. From the rise of the computer to AI, we are surrounded by technology. Some of it is useful, some is harmful. Some helps us to be more, and some has the potential to disrupt our lives and lessen them. So this week I have decided…