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SMOCK VALUE
Image: Photography by Claudia Brookes. Smocks are hardwearing ‘overalls’ that became common on English farms during the 18th and 19th centuries. As revealed by those that survive in museums of costume and...
SMOCK VALUE
Image: Photography by Claudia Brookes. Smocks are hardwearing ‘overalls’ that became common on English farms during the 18th and 19th centuries. As revealed by those that survive in museums of costume and...
THE OTHER DEMOISELLES D'AVIGNON
Image: Jacqueline Dürrbach, after Pablo Picasso Les Demoiselles d’Avignon. Cavalaire-sur-Mer 1958, after original 1907 painting. Wool tapestry 272 x 255 cm. Fundación Almine y Bernard Ruiz-Picasso para el Arte, Madrid. On...
THE OTHER DEMOISELLES D'AVIGNON
Image: Jacqueline Dürrbach, after Pablo Picasso Les Demoiselles d’Avignon. Cavalaire-sur-Mer 1958, after original 1907 painting. Wool tapestry 272 x 255 cm. Fundación Almine y Bernard Ruiz-Picasso para el Arte, Madrid. On...
PLAIN & SIMPLE
Image: Bars, maker unknown, Pennsylvania, c1920. Photograph © The International Quilt Museum, University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Next to the traditional American block-style quilts, the quilts of the Amish people of North America...
PLAIN & SIMPLE
Image: Bars, maker unknown, Pennsylvania, c1920. Photograph © The International Quilt Museum, University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Next to the traditional American block-style quilts, the quilts of the Amish people of North America...
OFF-LOOM WEAVING
Did you know you can weave without using a loom? Sarah Ward of Lark & Bower makes small hand-woven artworks, created off-loom using a needle and thread. The concept was...
OFF-LOOM WEAVING
Did you know you can weave without using a loom? Sarah Ward of Lark & Bower makes small hand-woven artworks, created off-loom using a needle and thread. The concept was...
REINVENTION AND RESTLESSNESS
Organising an exhibition on 1990s fashion could be considered an arbitrary pursuit. Styles do not begin and end in a neat, ten-year cycle. Nevertheless, those working in fashion—designers, historians, journalists,...
REINVENTION AND RESTLESSNESS
Organising an exhibition on 1990s fashion could be considered an arbitrary pursuit. Styles do not begin and end in a neat, ten-year cycle. Nevertheless, those working in fashion—designers, historians, journalists,...
HOW AND WOW LINEN
Photography: Sjoerd Knibbeler, www.craftscouncil.nl There's a lot to know and be wowed about with linen... For Dutch Design Week 2020, Crafts Council Nederland created an online exhibition: HOW&WOW Linen. The two-part...
HOW AND WOW LINEN
Photography: Sjoerd Knibbeler, www.craftscouncil.nl There's a lot to know and be wowed about with linen... For Dutch Design Week 2020, Crafts Council Nederland created an online exhibition: HOW&WOW Linen. The two-part...
