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Thomas Bayrle / Bernhard Schreiner: WARP WEFT, by Small World

3 track album

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The Luxury Of A Loose Fit

Mainstream fashion likes to squeeze curves into body-con dresses. New Zealand designer and model Georgia Pratt just wants room to move.

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An interview with Jen Bervin - Asymptote

When we write poems, the history of poetry is with us, pre-inscribed in the white of the page; when we read or write poems, we do it with or against this palimpsest.—Jen Bervin For poet and a

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The Luxury Of A Loose Fit

Mainstream fashion likes to squeeze curves into body-con dresses. New Zealand designer and model Georgia Pratt just wants room to move.

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Marie-Louise Nosch will be giving The Iris Foundation Awards Lecture on Tuesday, April 4 at 5:30 pm. Her talk is entitled "Texts and Textiles."

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How Medieval and Renaissance Tapestries Were Made | Essay | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art

“In European medieval and Renaissance practice, the design was invariably copied from a full-scale colored pattern, known as the cartoon, a practice that continues to this day.”

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how women are changing the world with textiles | read | i-D

Before women had a political voice, they used 'domestic arts' as a covert form of protest and activism. Hundreds of years later, they’re still doing it.

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instagram's embroiderers are blurring the gendered divide between craft and art | read | i-D

From tapestries to memes, needlework has been given women a voice for centuries.

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MOUSSE CONTEMPORARY ART MAGAZIN.

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In an interview with Jan Williams, Morton Feldman described his fascination with ancient Middle Eastern patterned rugs: “In older oriental rugs the dyes are made in small amounts and so what happens is that there is an imperfection throughout the rug of changing colors of these dyes. Most people feel that they are imperfections. Actually it is the refraction of the light on these small dye batches that makes the rugs wonderful. I interpreted this as going in and out of tune. There is a name for that in rugs - it's called abrash - a change of colors that leads us into pieces like Instruments III [1977] which was the beginning of my rug idea.”

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Ann Catherine Hoibo

http://www.standardoslo.no/en/artist/ann_cathrin_november_hibo

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http://www.dominiquehurth.com/index_dominique_hurth/dominique_hurth.html

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