Selvedge Stories
HAIR STORIES: ANYA PAINTSIL
Whatever you say squidward by Anya Paintsil acrylic, wool, human hair, kanekalon hair on hessian (2021). One of the consequences of the lockdowns in 2020 and 2021 was a renewed focus...
HAIR STORIES: ANYA PAINTSIL
Whatever you say squidward by Anya Paintsil acrylic, wool, human hair, kanekalon hair on hessian (2021). One of the consequences of the lockdowns in 2020 and 2021 was a renewed focus...
TAPESTRY TALES: LOUISE BOURGEOIS
Louise Bourgeois: The Fabric Works, Untitled 2005, Fabric.When Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010) moved from her native France to New York in 1938 she took many things with her: materials, memories, themes,...
TAPESTRY TALES: LOUISE BOURGEOIS
Louise Bourgeois: The Fabric Works, Untitled 2005, Fabric.When Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010) moved from her native France to New York in 1938 she took many things with her: materials, memories, themes,...
TAPESTRY TALES: THE APOCALYPSE TAPESTRY, ANGERS
Image: The Apocalypse Tapestry on display in the Château d’Angers.An extraordinary tapestry, commissioned c.1375 by Louis I, Duke of Anjou, that once measured 140 metres in length of which 100...
TAPESTRY TALES: THE APOCALYPSE TAPESTRY, ANGERS
Image: The Apocalypse Tapestry on display in the Château d’Angers.An extraordinary tapestry, commissioned c.1375 by Louis I, Duke of Anjou, that once measured 140 metres in length of which 100...
TAPESTRY TALES: TOLKIEN AT AUBUSSON
Image: Bilbo comes to the Huts of the Raft-Elves, detail, 2018, © Cité Internationale de la Tapisserie.“He was always doodling,” Baillie Tolkien said of her father-in-law, J. R. R, creator...
TAPESTRY TALES: TOLKIEN AT AUBUSSON
Image: Bilbo comes to the Huts of the Raft-Elves, detail, 2018, © Cité Internationale de la Tapisserie.“He was always doodling,” Baillie Tolkien said of her father-in-law, J. R. R, creator...
TAPESTRY TALES: AUBUSSON
Image: Armide enlève Renaud endormi sur son chariot, Aubusson region, 17th century © Cité Internationale de la Tapisserie.This week, Deborah Nash, will be filling our blog with tapestry tales and...
TAPESTRY TALES: AUBUSSON
Image: Armide enlève Renaud endormi sur son chariot, Aubusson region, 17th century © Cité Internationale de la Tapisserie.This week, Deborah Nash, will be filling our blog with tapestry tales and...
BOATS, THE SEA AND THE TRADITIONAL ARTS OF DEAN...
For my final post I'd like to return full circle to Alastair McLeod's The Boat (see BETWEEN ROCK AND SEA), and to the boat itself, as both a symbol of...
BOATS, THE SEA AND THE TRADITIONAL ARTS OF DEAN...
For my final post I'd like to return full circle to Alastair McLeod's The Boat (see BETWEEN ROCK AND SEA), and to the boat itself, as both a symbol of...
