Owen Jones and Ornament of the Middle Ages
Illustration: Owen Jones Middle Ages Ornament from his The Grammar of Ornament 1856 Interestingly Owen Jones called the colour plates dedicated to the chapter dealing with medieval ornament in his 1856 book The Grammar of Ornament , as Middle Ages , while he entitled the chapter itself as Medieval Ornament . Some see both titles as meaning the same era while others are more particular.
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Owen Jones and Ornament of the Middle Ages
The International Trade Center (ITC) is pleased to announce the launch of a new web portal, artisanconnect.net, dedicated to supporting trade in crafts from developing countries. Artisanconnect provides organizations and individuals involved in supporting handicrafts and artisans around the world with information on markets, design and production development, materials and techniques, and projects
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artisanconnect – a new website
PEOPLink.org is a non-profit organization reducing poverty by linking artisans and small and medium enterprises (SMEs) worldwide to social networks of buyers via e-commerce.
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PEOPLink – E-commerce for Artisans and SMEs
RAPEX is the EU rapid alert system for all dangerous consumer products, with the exception of food, pharmaceutical and medical devices. It allows for the rapid exchange of information between Member States via central contact points (the National Contact Points ) and the Commission of measures taken to prevent or restrict the marketing or use of products posing a serious risk to the health and safety of consumers. Both measures ordered by national authorities and measures taken voluntarily by producers and distributors are covered by RAPEX
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RAPEX – EU consumer safety
Illustration: Walter Crane Alcestic Frieze 1876 Walter Crane was a prodigious and prestigious artist, designer and illustrator. He produced design work for textiles, carpet, ceramics, stained glass and wallpaper.
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Four Decades of Wallpaper Design by Walter Crane
Introducing Sean Coleman, fellow blogcatalog blogger known as Scole . Sean loves music! He writes about it on his blog called “pod”. Why did he call it pod?
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Finding My Tribe Online… Music Lovers!
What a gorgeous spring day today, … and then to remember that it was complete white yesterday, … Anyway I biked around a lot, and made three paintings, so here we go: The first one is quite early made, a little haze is still visible.
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A great day in Holland.
Illustration: Various forms of Philippine basketry 1913 The Philippines is a diverse and varied archipelago made up of hundreds of islands with dozens of mutually exclusive and overlapping cultural heritages. It is no surprise then that basketry within the islands is a craft skill that is both as varied and individual as the islands and the cultures that inhabit them.
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Basketry of the Philippines
Illustration: Traditional Cretan embroidery The embroidery work produced on the island of Crete has many influences as designated by its strategic trading and cultural position in the eastern Mediterranean, situated as it is between the Asian, African and European mainlands.
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The Embroidery of Crete
Not officially part of the Spring Collection, but still an integral part of the Cluny Grey Jewelry Collection are our Swarovski crystal pieces. Whether the crystals stand alone in a jewelry piece or are mixed with freshwater pearls, as we often do, or with gemstones, Swarovski crystals are classics and the jewelry pieces we make from them are classic also. Above, this Swarovski crystal handmade necklace i s very special with its two circles of golden crystals defining the ends of the necklace and the special Swarovski crystal rings hanging from them
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Swarovski, Swarovski, and Gemstones
This little cartoon is rather cute… now..I wasn’t nearly as ‘cute’ while on the phone with the Tech Guys at Time Warner Cable on Wednesday last. I had actually checked my email and my shop per my usual “have my coffee/wake up” routine..
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More..computer woes!
The illustrations shown in this article are from the 37 steps exhibition, which is on at The Changing Room in Stirling, Scotland until March 28 2010.
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Gillian Cooper and the 37 Steps Exhibition
After Monday’s post about implementing a policy for answering questions , Julie Thompson commented: I get the same questions over and over, but this happens much more often when I do a show, not so much in my inbox.
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Answering the same question over and over again (gracefully) in a face-to-face conversation
F rom the BlogCatalog Community Blog This week LotusB has shared some great information about Twitter and WordPress with us. Cheryl enlisted the help of Joel Williams from Blog Tech Guy to give us some information on what a splog is and if bloggers should be worried about them
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BlogCatalog Weekly
Fischli and Weiss, Der Lauf Der Dinge (The Way Things Go), video, 30′, 1987 Honda Ad, 2003 OK Go – This Too Shall Pass, 2009 I remember the choreographer João Fiadeiro once showing Fischli & Weiss’s work during some seminar or workshop and talking about what in his mind made it so impressive : necessity. Although it might seem like anything can happen, what happens is exactly what needs to happen
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The Way Things Go and Pass
A great day painting in Amsterdam, with sun and a bit of a chill wind. “Amsterdam centraal II.” Amsterdam, Holland
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"Amsterdam centraal." Amsterdam, Holland.
Mostly everyone in the Blog Catalog community is aware of the basic rules of blogging; hosts, tags, comment management, etc. Bloggers also know that the lifeline of their blog is the Really Simple Syndication (RSS) tool.
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WordPress Gives Blogs a “Push”…
Illustration: Hannah Ryggen Ja vi elsker tapestry This tapestry produced by Hannah Ryggen is very particular to both a time period and that of geographical context. It portrays a celebration of the 900th anniversary of the founding of Oslo in 1950. Indirectly, the Norwegian capital was also celebrating forty-five years of independence from centuries of domination by its neighbours Denmark and Sweden, but also five years from the forced occupation during the Second World War by Germany
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Hannah Ryggen and the Ja Vi Elsker Tapestry
Illustration: Ann Macbeth rug design 1905 Ann Macbeth is well known as an embroidery designer, teacher and author. She succeeded Jessie Newbery as head of the embroidery department at Glasgow School of art and was a pivotal member of the later Glasgow movement headed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Margaret Macdonald. She was also the author of a number of popular and influential books mostly concerned with the practical aspects of embroidery, needlework and dressmaking
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Ann Macbeth and Rug Design
A mantelpiece is grand over a fireplace, but it just so happens to also be the perfect fit behind a queen-sized bed. Let’s pull back the covers and I’ll show you how we turned this mantel into a headboard. We found the mantel on Craigslist.
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The Grand Mantelpiece Headboard