This is one of those posts in which you have make sure you have ink and paper loaded in the printer, make a cuppa and browse the goodies There are facsimile copies of the Craftsman magazine edited by Gustav Stickley hosted at the Digital Library for the Decorative Arts and …
I have wasted far too much time playing with another online colour schemer. Regular readers will be aware that every now and then I turn up another of these designers toys online. Actually they are not toys as web designers find them very useful and so do quilters and textile …
The Latest issue of Fibre and Stitch is out. As usual its great treat and it was with pleasure I made a cuppa, printed out the 84 page PDF file and settled back for a good read and visual feast. This is the fourth issue so still relatively young but …
This is a little something to poder over the weekend as Eric Gibson’s piece The Lost Art of Writing about Art focuses on the writing in the reviews, particularly the Whitney Museum’s Biennial exhibition. How critics, curators and people in the business of the visual arts write about art is …
Virginia Spiegel dropped me a line to remind me that Collage Mania is Monday and Tuesday, in other words May 5 and 6. I think it is going to be 2 days of total crazyness for Virginia as all you have to do is choose an artwork, e-mail Virginia and …
Textile artist Jennifer Marsh has recently completed an unusual and big installation. Jennifer called it the World Reclamation Art Project (W.R.A.P.) and covered an abandoned petrol station in textile panels. “Participants have crocheted, knitted, stitched, patched, or collaged 3 foot square fiber panels that expresses each participants concern about this …
I am still poking about the V&A and discovered a fascinating series of articles on of all things …the history of wallpaper. The section on Design Reform speaks about the influence of the Great Exhibition of 1851. Some have suggested that at this exhibition women where exposed to the asymmetrical …
