Original Artwork of William Morris
Illustration: William Morris Jasmine 1872 The original artwork of William Morris can only begin to give us an idea as to the creative workings and indeed journey of both the man as an individual and as the designer of prodigious amounts of fabrics, tapestries, carpets, embroideries, and wallpapers. That nature and the portrayal of the natural world were central to the artistic core of the man is undoubted, as the few examples shown here of his original design and decorative work are made clearly abundant.
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Original Artwork of William Morris
Illustration: Satellite map of Croatia Today’s article was to concentrate on Dalmatian lace within the larger picture of Croatia. However, I have just discovered a ten minute video on YouTube that is devoted to the subject of Croatian lace which incorporates the Dalmatian area as well. There seems little point in writing an article when this fascinating video is freely available
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Traditional Croatian Lace
Mark Webster Barbara Haviland Karla Nolan AJ LaGasse David Edwards Andrew Orr Janice Warriner Coral Barclay Becky Joy Justin Clayton Cheryl Pass Cheryl Ratcliff To purchase any painting, simply visit the artist’s blog for details!
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Daily Paintings for Sale – June 8, 2010
Illustration: Dora Wheeler Penelope Unravelling her Work at Night needle woven tapestry 1886 The subject of what constitutes a tapestry can form a number of different parameters for different people. To some a tapestry can only ever be of the woven variety constructed on an upright loom, while others are happy to extend the parameters to include cross-stitch and other forms of needlework.
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Embroidered Tapestries of Dora Wheeler
Barbara Haviland Cheryl Ratcliff Mark Webster David Edwards Cheryl Pass AJ LaGasse Justin Clayton Becky Joy Coral Barclay Andrew Orr Karla Nolan Janice Warriner To purchase any painting, simply visit the artist’s blog for details!
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Daily Paintings for Sale – June 7, 2010
These aren’t my pieces… but they do ‘give away’ the new series I’m about to start painting. My creepers have ‘joined the carnival’ and they are part of the side show attractions
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I’m Excited about My New Series
Jon McNaught ’s new graphic novella from Nobrow Press, Birchfield Close , is a most perfect little treasure of a comic. Printed with a restrained three colours, the short book is a gentle, unassuming reflection on time, place, and sound.
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Jon McNaught – Birchfield Close
Illustration: Lisa Chipetine Waves of Emotion: Relief 2008 Illustration: Lisa Chipetine Waves of Emotion: Relief (detail) 2008 The textile artist Lisa Chipetine is a woman who sees no merit in creative boundaries, frameworks and conventions. Her work is expressed by her belief in the limitless horizons of both self-expression and self-exploration.
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The Creative Free Form Textile Art of Lisa Chipetine
“Why buy it when we can make it?” -Alton Brown Right, so maybe AB was talking about putting Kosher salt into the food processor to make finer granules of salt to season his home-made popcorn, but the statement rang home to me… All over the internet are some amazing blogs involving sustainable living and less spending – sewing your own clothes , growing your own food , and making your own furniture – and gosh darnnit they’re onto something! However at this time I have no farm to grow things and no garage for tools but I’ve got my Singer! And I’m ready to commit. Now I’ve been super busy with working at K1 Yarns , designing knitting patterns , and making baby blankets but today I am committing myself to a more handmade wardrobe. And you can hold me accountable
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Make It, Wear It June & Self-Stitched September
Jump to the full entry & travel map Than Uyen, Vietnam The morning is beautiful, and the weather keeps that way all day long – what else can we ask for?! I’m kind of a dick today, first I dispute with Becky about something I don’t really have an idea (what was the reason for changing the phones numbering scheme in Australia), and it’s really stupid. Then I feel a little bit in “overpower” when I ask to make a detour to Tram Tau. The place is marked as a “scenic view” on the map, and it’s the only one which is close to our way (30 km one-way detour)
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Jeep to Sapa and back, Day 3 — Than Uyen, Vietnam
Jump to the full entry & travel map Vang Vieng, Viangchan, Lao Peoples Dem Rep Basically Vang Vieng is set up for the sole purpose of getting incredibly drunk on “buckets” – which are exactly what they say on the tin namely buckets of cocktail (usually whisky and mixer) – and tubing which entails floating down the river on a large inner tube whilst stopping off at all the bars for beer and free shots along the way. The bars all have some sort of rope swing or waterslide which was entertaining and rather dangerous.
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Tubing and Drinking (buckets) in Vang Vieng — Vang Vieng, Viangchan, Lao Peoples Dem Rep
Jump to the full entry & travel map Phu Yen, Vietnam I would never have guessed that but it proves that in Australia the “water situation” is way worse than what we have in Israel. They also don’t have rains lately and the water is being controlled. For example it’s a shame to say that you’ve spend more than 2 minutes in a bathtube.
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Jeep to Sapa and back, Day 2 — Phu Yen, Vietnam
Jump to the full entry & travel map Athens, Greece One of the pleasures of this trip was the chance to catch up with ok’d friends, Susan and Dmitri. We had a fantastic dinner late into the night at The Hotel Grande Bretagne. The view to the acropolis from the open air terrace was stunning (though nat as good as our room at the Astor).
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Night out — Athens, Greece
Jump to the full entry & travel map Luang Prabang, Louangphabang, Lao Peoples Dem Rep stayed here for a while – explored the city and went to really beautiful waterfalls (see pics on facebook). by the end of our stay our group had expanded to 10 people comprising the UK, Netherlands, Belgium, Australia, USA and Spain. lots of drinking…
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Luang Prabang — Luang Prabang, Louangphabang, Lao Peoples Dem Rep
Jump to the full entry & travel map South Luangwa National Park, Zambia 18/5/10 After some lovely days relaxing it was time to start the second part of our tour. With only 9 of us now instead of 16 it did feel a bit empty on the truck. I was also down my tent buddy Karen who had gone back to the UK and was now left with my own tent.
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Benji – The Driving Diaries. — South Luangwa National Park, Zambia
Jump to the full entry & travel map Stanthorpe, Queensland, Australia My first job in Australia was picking raspberries on a farm in Stanthorpe, which is a small town in South Queensland, where in winter (now) there is a possibility of snow!!! I arrived on Tuesday night and put in a room with 3 other girls, Grace, Jenna and Amy. Then i was introduced to the other 6 people on the farm, 2 were in their camper van (Simon and Katherine, who were sacked because the farmer’s wife didn’t like them) and the other 4 (Paul, Leigh-Anne, Una and AJ) were sleeping on an old clapped out bus which was also our kitchen! I was warned about how strict the farmer and his wife were about people picking fast enough, and as it was piece work at $1 a punnet you had to pick fast to earn any money. My first day was OK and we worked the full day, from then it went down hill.
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Berry Funny Farm — Stanthorpe, Queensland, Australia
Jump to the full entry & travel map Florence, Tuscany, Italy May 29th I arrived in Florence the in the evening and since I hadn’t done a real load of laundry since Paris, that was the first thing on my mind. I did that, hung out with some people, and went to sleep in my 18 person room.
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Risktaking in Tuscany — Florence, Tuscany, Italy
Jump to the full entry & travel map Dar es Salaam, Tanzania 26/5/10 – Tanzania Well it was time to leave Malawi and make our way to Tanzania. It was a very auspicious start with us going along the road works in pouring rain and we had a whole bunch of other vehicles to get pet past, but the locals were telling us to go ahead, when all of a sudden out truck got stuck in the mud right by another big truck. Things weren’t looking good and I wondered how we were going to get out of this one
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Benji: The Driving Diaries Part Deux. — Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Jump to the full entry & travel map Luang Prabang, Louangphabang, Lao Peoples Dem Rep left earlier, around 9.30 ish for day 2 of the boat ride. the atmosphere was a little more subdued due to hangovers. the journey itself was more entertaining that the previous day (scenery still the same and very spectacular) as we stopped numerous time to pick up people, animals (lizards, things that looked like beavers, fish…) and empty crates of beer
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Day 2 of boat ride — Luang Prabang, Louangphabang, Lao Peoples Dem Rep
Jump to the full entry & travel map Chiang Rai, Thailand This morning we travelled north again to a town called Chiang Rai where we went to the Hill tribe museum run by the PDA (Population and community Development Association). At the museum we were shown a video of what to expect from the next three days of trekking and also told us about the hill tribe people and their cultures and also what we should and shouldn’t do while there, for example, me and women (including married couples) do not sleep in the same rooms
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Hill tribe museum and 1st night home stay — Chiang Rai, Thailand