Issue 101 Grow Trailer
The trailer for Issue 101 Grow is here! Take a journey through our latest issue and watch the stories come to life.
In this issue we discover that straw, the most mundane and abundant waste material is, in fact, extraordinary in the diversity of its practical applications in everything from architecture, clothing, intricate Swedish crowns, delicate embroidery and folklore icons. However, this material is not always benign, playing a part in riots and rituals worldwide. Research for this issue was undertaken with the assistance of Ollie Douglas, the curator of the Museum of English Rural Life, (well worth a pilgrimage if you are ever in Berkshire) to whom we are extremely grateful for the knowledge he generously shared. This insight has revealed a new attitude towards materials and reverence for ancient crafts of thatching, basket making and millinary.
Available in print or digital, find out more about Issue 101 Grow.
Image: The Suspension of Disbelief: Shetland folk tradition of Skelling, Skeklers and Guising, from Issue 101 Grow. Photography by Laurence Winram @winram.
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this is such a beautiful and bountiful magazine! sometimes I think that I do not have time to sit and look at my emails – the ones that I would love to see – and today I DID LOOK – and what enormous joy to see the abundance of straw – to think of the baskets and bowls that I do have – and fabrics and weaving and objets – that I would love to see being made – as I can on your video – I am SO HAPPY and have even wondered now if I can repair my lovely carved bench which has a woven seat – not the same way as it is now done – but in some other way – using some amazing Australian plant – blessings and thanks – Lelle (Western Australia)