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HARRIS TWEED
Nigel Cabourn Exclusive Interview on the Inspiration behind the Autumn Winter 2011 collection (by CornicheClothing)
Newcastle based designer who has been a faithful supporter of Harris tweed and uses it in new exciting ways....
Screenshot from Nick Hand's Slowcoast website - you can access his blog from there too....
Slowcoast - sound slides
To be honest, I had forgotten to check back on Nick Hand's bike ride progress for a while - but I just have..... and his journey has extended and his website offers a treasure trove of images and interviews about trades, skills, people he has encountered on his travels around the British Isles. It's a fantastic resource and offers a very personal view which is a real delight to watch and listen to.
www.slowcoast.co.uk
Kerry Larkin's Comma quilts.....
Kerry Larkin’s Comma Workshop
Kerry Larkin brings a fresh perspective to the time honored tradition of quilting, exploring the intersection of art, design, and craft. In 2010, Kerry founded Comma Workshop, with the intention to “elevate the everyday by creating thoughtful, modern inspired textiles.” Her approach is unique in the way that she combines the art of quilt-making and storytelling, stitching narratives directly onto quilts, blending elements of fantasy and wit. Kerry comes from a family of quilters and has memories of growing up sitting around a quilt frame, participating in quilting bees, which traditionally was an opportunity to connect and socialize. When she founded Comma Workshop, her goal was to put a new spin on this concept, creating a collaborative effort, “where the sharing of fabrics, transforms functional quilts into cultural artifacts.” Kerry’s design process is non-linear, in the sense that she sketches, sews, and jumps back and forth between the two. She has numerous notebooks filled will ‘haikus’ that capture past experiences, acting as a starting point for the quilts. Once she gets the general idea about where the narrative is headed, she jumps right on the machine and starts quilting, allowing her to feel and see how the words work with one another. She uses the machine as if she were writing with a pencil. She loves clean, crisp lines, paired with a “little realness.” She moves away from anything that looks "too sterile and gravitates toward the modern-inspired design fused with the everyday." She likes to use the word, “dirty realness.” She says, “For me, it’s taking the sterile white box and throwing some life into it.”
For more information about Kerry and her quilts, please visit: www.commaworkshop.com
VANISHING TRADES
All over the world traditional skills and trades are disappearing, and with them whole ways of life. Film makers Richard Goodwin and Annie Blaber started to collect stories of the skills, the lifestyles and the makers involved in a wide variety of craft-based trades - from icing cakes, to making fiddles. I've uploaded a couple of clips from their website - www.vanishingtrades.eu - it's a fascinating resource and free to access. Give yourself some time - make yourself a good coffee or pour a glass of wine and go explore....
From cotton waste to paper....
My visit to a paper-making factory near Ahmedabad in India last November - waste shredded cotton fabric comes in at one end - is soaked and pulped (I'll add some photo's) - is processed by hand, as you can see in the video - then hung to dry, producing the most gorgeous quality of handmade paper.
Very pleasing pieces from Finnish designers:
www.latimeria.fi
all made from recycled materials - etched and sandblasted decoration
Museo Subacuatica de Arte - spread over 420 square metres of seabed of the Cancun Marine Park off the coast of Mexico is one of the largest and most ambitious underwater art attractions in the world. Gallery-goers don fins and oxygen tanks to explore the museum. Work of the founder, Jason de Caires Taylor, consists of over 400 permanent life-size sculptures - each made from specialised materials to promote coral life. New commissioned works from other artists will be added this year.
www.musacancun.com
What a fabulous concept, which will only get better as marine life gradually absorbs this work.....
HARRIS TWEED
I'm curating an exhibition of Harris Tweed which will go on the road later this year. In the course of research I've come across a talented young photographer, Carol Ann Peacock, who has been recording some of the processes of tweed weaving, people and products. Do visit her website to take a look at her portfolio - great portraits and images of places in Scotland and Scottish icons. www.carolannpeacock.com
The private screening room is at Blythswood Square Hotel in Glasgow - a 5-star establishment, not long opened, that has used luxurious Harris Tweed fabric in much of its interior furnishing. What a wee cinema - imagine the fun choosing which seat according to your favourite colour, mood and tweed!
www.townhousecompany.com/blythswoodsquare
Next time you are in Edinburgh - do pop round to Broughton Street and visit Fiona and James's great shop - Concrete Wardrobe. An ever changing source of new, affordable Scottish designer goods - sold to you by informed people who care about and understand contemporary craft.
Also check out Fiona's own site and view her printed textiles:
www.tessutiscotland.co.uk
Also James' site of wonderful weaves:
www.pickone.co.uk
Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty
Metropolitan Museum - New York
4 May - 31 July 2011
The exhibition, organized by The Costume Institute, celebrates the late Alexander McQueen’s extraordinary contributions to fashion. From his postgraduate collection of 1992 to his final runway presentation which took place after his death in February 2010, McQueen challenged and expanded the understanding of fashion beyond utility to a conceptual expression of culture, politics, and identity. His iconic designs constitute the work of an artist whose medium of expression was fashion. Around one hundred examples are on view, including signature designs such as the bumster trouser, the kimono jacket, and the Origami frock coat, as well as pieces reflecting the exaggerated silhouettes of the 1860s, 1880s, 1890s, and 1950s that he crafted into amazing contemporary shapes.
A lost genius.
UNLIMITED EDITIONS
www.unlimitededitions.co.uk
Typographic design, art and collectables. A great site! they are having a pop-up shop/open house in Brighton on May weekends - wish I lived closer!
BARGA
All this early year sunshine and warmth in Scotland has accelerated my thoughts of holidays and travel. I have to tell you, although it's impossible to guarantee warmth at any predictable time of year, Scotland is always a great place to explore and spend free time - and I love living here. However, I was looking through my photographs and remembering a week I spent in Barga in northern Italy last June. Bagpipe maker / musician Hamish Moore and his son Fin were hosting a teaching week at the 'conservatorio' perched atop this typical Tuscan hillside village - reached on foot through steeply ascending and winding narrow streets. I stayed in a dormitory in the old convent and by day attended fiddle and song classes - some indoors with windows wide open and some in the sheltered courtyard below. Don't be fooled that I am a musician - I can scrape a few tunes from a fiddle and hold a note, but that's all - the rest is for fun. I managed to fake my way through a concert at Barga's delightful little theatre one evening and it was a great thrill to look out onto attentive faces filling the small auditorium which quaintly resembled scenery for a puppet show. There was good company and chat, fabulous scenery - and, of course, amazing food and drink. Rich strong dense coffee, sweet and sticky pastries, gelati to add pounds for, pink bitter Campari with icy soda and the sweetest twists of fresh oranges - and the most tender and delicious zucchini flowers, stuffed with ricotta and lightly fried in a delicate crisp batter. In truth, it is probably conjuring up those flavours and the thought of 'proper' food that transports me back to that week in Italy more than the music...