Still cold but heartwarming beautiful.
Still cold, indeed but much to beautiful to stay indoors. Tucked up real thick especially your feet and not going too far from a pub or other possible hot chocolate it’s a real treat to practice all those blueish grey tonals, especially when the sun is interfering than all becomes soooooo awesome, … “Heuvel af.” Arnhem, Holland.
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Still cold but heartwarming beautiful.
Illustration: Honiton lace design 1910 The town of Honiton in Devon produced some of the most sought after lace in England. It was said that the town had been producing lace since the Elizabethan era, though it is now thought that serious production of lace did not begin for another century after that.
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The Revival of Honiton Lace
Andrew Orr Cheryl Pass Anna Tikhomirova David Edwards Barbara Haviland Justin Clayton Cheryl Ratcliff Mark Webster AJ LaGasse Janice Warriner Becky Joy Karla Nolan To purchase any painting, simply visit the artist’s blog for details!
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Painting a Day Artists – Daily Art Painters – Jan 5, 2010
Illustration: Woman’s embroidered shirt, Western Siberia Siberia is a huge sprawling and diverse area of the planet and contains a complex patchwork of people and cultures, from the original indigenous people, to those brought in through various waves of immigration from the Russian Empire through to the Soviet Union and now the Russian Federation. Although most areas of Russia have their own distinct embroidery traditions and skills and many may well have brought those traditions with them to Siberia, it is the indigenous cultures that make up the bulk of embroidery techniques and pattern work of the area
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An Introduction to Siberian Embroidery
Illustration: Pat Dolan Earth Cells The organically inspired textile artwork of Pat Dolan can be viewed as both a reflection of the macro or micro cosmos that we live both with and inside. Dolan in fact shows us a world that we cannot see with our own eyes and very often find hard to perceive. It is a world of building blocks, an organically derived series of balances and relationships between near likenesses and complete opposites
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Pat Dolan and the Juxtapositions of Life
AJ LaGasse Anna Tikhomirova Andrew Orr Janice Warriner David Edwards Becky Joy Mark Webster Barbara Haviland Karla Nolan Justin Clayton Cheryl Pass Cheryl Ratcliff To purchase any painting, simply visit the artist’s blog for details!
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Art for Sale Online – Daily Painters! Jan 3, 2010
First off all everybody who’s following this blog I wish a great painterly 2010, but in general I wish everybody A huge healthy peaceful and awesome year! For me it couldn’t started better we had snow on our vacation place and it was such a beautiful area you just walked from one Christmas card into the other. I’ll post three of the work I made over there but there are a few more, I have to tweak them first a little I think. “Driepaal” De lutte, Holland
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Illustration: Harriet Powers Bible quilt 1886 The quilting work of Harriet Powers is a symbolists dream. The two quilts shown here, detail some of the important stories and legends of the Bible set within a panelled quilt. However, these are by no means pieces that can be tagged as ‘naive’ or even ‘folk’ art; they were produced by a woman with an instinctive understanding of some of the complex messages underlying the stories
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Harriet Powers Bible Quilt
Illustration: Ernest Percyval Tudor-Hart First Sin tapestry 1961 Ernest Percyval Tudor-Hart was a Canadian fine artist who spent a large section of his career in Paris and London where he opened and taught in his own schools, within the first two decades of the twentieth century. Tudor-Hart moved in some of the best artistic circles in Europe and knew a number of artists including the Hungarians Alador Korosfoi-Kriesch and Sondor Nagy, and so therefore also knew the Godollo Arts & Crafts colony in Hungary.
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Percyval Tudor-Hart and the First Sin
The Aran Islands are a group of small windswept islands situated off the west coast of Ireland which has given us a unique and often copied knit genre. It is important not to confuse Aran with the Scottish island of Arran which has nothing to do with Aran knit and is in no way related or linked in anyway with the Irish Aran
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Irish Aran Knit
Whether you’re planning on hitting the town, throwing a party, or just enjoying a quiet evening with family and friends, we have put together a few blogs that will help you prepare for your 2009 New Year’s Eve festivities. Hey Ladies New Year’s Eve parties give all of us an excuse to get dressed up and get a little wild
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Ring In The New Year, Bloggy Style
In some recent discussions I have had, I have noticed an opinion–mainly amongst non-bloggers and non-Facebookers–that these digital realms are dominated by young people. While this is not a total misconception, it is also not entirely true
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Boomers Increase Presence on Facebook, In Blogosphere
Illustration: Byzantine Ornament from Owen Jones The Grammar of Ornament 1856 Owen Jones placed the chapter on Byzantine ornament between that of the Roman and Arabian in his 1856 book entitled The Grammar of Ornament . This chapter sequence was always important to Jones as it set out his theories of who influenced who and who followed who, both culturally and historically. He saw the decorative style of Byzantium as following on from the Roman phase and being an important element of the following Islamic decorative style
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Owen Jones and Byzantium
Illustration: Pazyryk saddlecloth depicting an elk It is now assumed by many archaeologists that the people, who were initially entitled as Pazyryk , are in fact either Scythian or at least a branch of that culture and people. The Scythians were a nomadic people who used the great plains of central Asia and southern Russia as their extensive homeland. Many different cultures have used the vast steppes of Europe and Asia for past millennia, but they have all shared a particularly common bond, seeing textiles as an important element of their lifestyles, even being seen as one of the main domestic ingredients of their mobile cultures
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Pazyryk Horsemen and Elks
Gerrie Congdon Sunset Composition 2009 The textile artist Gerrie Congdon produces work that deals with the elemental landscape. The natural world is such a large part of Congdon’s compositions that they set both the scene and the style of each piece. Her work forms a collage of experiences all of which are of the quiet, thoughtful and reflective variety, the best type when observing and representing the natural world.
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The Quiet Stillness of the Textile Work of Gerrie Congdon
Illustration: Icelandic Church embroidery Icelandic Christian based and themed embroidery started with the conversion of Iceland in 1000 to the start of the Protestant Reformation church in 1550. Icelandic religious embroideries were used throughout the numerous Catholic Church services and came in the form of altar cloths, chalice veils and a range of other church furnishings.
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Icelandic Christian Embroidery
When talking about Tule River basketry we should of course be really talking about Yokut basketry. The Yokut nation originally consisted of over sixty diverse and distinct communities, all speaking a common language and sharing the larger Yokut culture, all living within central inland California. Basketry, as with most Native American cultures, was an important element in the daily domestic life of people, and was often so intertwined with the day to day running of life that the maintenance of a fully functioning professional basketry craft base could often be a factor in the success or failure of a community.
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Tule River Basketry
Archibald Knox both used and understood the relevance of Celtic design work to the British decorative arts world at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century. Knox was born on the Isle of Man and was of Scottish descent. He had a keen interest in his ancestry and his heritage and was happy to play up that heritage when it came to aspects of his career.
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Archibald Knox and the Celtic Knot
Well, it's about that time, when everything non-retail discount related rolls up its front steps, bars the door, and waits for the inevitable necessity of a new year to re-engage with the world. Over the next couple of weeks, very little will be happening in the art scene, for this very reason; most galleries will shut down until at least the first week of January
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Silent nights: Fernand Leduc at Olga Korper
A couple weekend events of note, namely Art Metropole's annual Gifts by Artists extravaganza , which continues up 'til Xmas eve. You can buy a grab-bag (or box, actually) of multiples by Stephen Andrews, James Carl, Andy Fabo, Derek Sullivan and Seth Scriver, among others, for $100. Today at AM is one of the associated events where Cecilia Berkovic will be holding a special artists' gift-wrapping station alongside local dematerialization troupe the CN Tower Liquidation Crew.
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Attention Xmas shoppers: Gifts by Artists at Art Metropole; Bargain hunting at Hunter + Cook