Hannah Ryggen and the Ja Vi Elsker Tapestry
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
Illustration: Terry Jarrard-Dimond Crush The work of textile artist Terry Jarrard-Dimond is one of precision both in colour and in line. It is not surprising to learn that the artist worked 3-dimensionally as a sculptor for many years before coming to textiles, as these five pieces by the artist shows.
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Terry Jarrard-Dimond and the Art of Spatial Awareness
Illustration: Charles Rennie Mackintosh Wave Pattern Charles Rennie Mackintosh produced a number of differing textile design pieces with the title of wave . A number of them were produced during the early years of the First World War and reflect the growing changes that had started to appear within the British decorative arts in the few years before the war, particularly with new concepts and ideas being put forward by such people as Roger Fry and his Omega Workshops
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Charles Rennie Mackintosh and the Wave Pattern
Illustration: Mexican Ornament from Owen Jones The Grammar of Ornament 1856 Perhaps one of the seemingly oddest incorporations in Owen Jones The Grammar of Ornament published in 1856 was that of Mexican ornament. Interestingly, but perhaps puzzlingly, Jones placed his illustrations towards what he called Mexican ornament within the chapter dealing with Greek ornament.
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Owen Jones and Mexican Ornament
Illustration: Sandra Woock Backspin The textile artwork produced by Sandra Woock is very much open-ended as far as experience and interpretation are concerned. The artist seems intent on both personal observation and understanding originating within the individual, rather than that of the artist. Although much of the creative interpretation and analysis of artwork is subjective, many artists do try to limit, or at least set some forms of parameter around the interpretation and explanation of their work
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Sandra Woock and the Function of Movement
Illustration: Russian lace makers 1911 Little was known in the rest of Europe and the world at large, about Russian lace making until the publication in 1870 of a book dealing with lace, but more specifically that of Russian lace makers. The book was written by Sophie Davydorf and was a rich and detailed history dealing with many different forms of lace making across the Russian Empire. However, probably the most important benefit of Davydorf’s book was her highlighting of the plight of thousands of peasant women who were working slave hours and wages in the production of fine lace for wealthy Russians
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The Plight of Russian Lace Makers
Illustration: Russian cross stitch design Most human cultures across the planet, including that of the Slavic, tend to use red for the same basic and original intention. Red is the same colour of blood and therefore since the beginning of human culture it has come to be associated literally with the lifeblood and through association, with that of the lifeforce. In the broad geographical and cultural area that made up the homeland of the Slavs, red was very much used in the tradition of protection, particularly against various human diseases and ailments.
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The Slavic use of Red Thread in Embroidery
Illustration: Albert Herter The Ship 1913 Albert Herter was an American artist, best known for his fine art paintings, but closely followed by a range of large scale murals that he produced from about 1913 onwards through to the end of the 1920s. Herter also produced a number of tapestries and The Ship is one of the better known and dates from 1913. The tapestry itself is interesting in its style and composition as, although seemingly conventional and representational in both composition and style, it does seem to echo certain elements of the abstract pattern work, particularly within the top third of the tapestry, that was to be so prevalent within the decorative arts, and that of textile design specifically, during the following 1920s and 1930s.
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Albert Herter and the Tapestry Ship
Illustration: Wen Redmond Trees Seen, Forest Remembered 2008 Of all the images and work produced by textile artist Wen Redmond, I have chosen a sequence of work produced by her over a couple of years.
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Wen Redmond and the Complex Nature of Observation
Illustration: William Morris Peacock and Dragon 1878 The Peacock and Dragon is one of William Morris’s woven, rather than printed textile designs.
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William Morris and the Peacock and Dragon
Online Education: With the national unemployment rate still hovering in double digits, many laid off workers are turning to online education as a tool to acquire new skills and become more appealing to prospective employers. At online universities across the nation, enrollment figures are increasing drastically in the New Year. As …
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Online education offers new skills, careers
(Careers.org translation in italics) Muhammad Ali: “The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.” (Our take: Seize the power of experience) Jennifer Aniston: “I was told to avoid the business all together because of the rejection. People would ..
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You can learn a lot about business from a celebrity
Students from the United Arab Emirates, China, and South Korea are enrolling at Canadian schools offering continuing education in large numbers. According to Canada’s Embassy newspaper 1.78 million international students in Canada spent C$6.5 billion in 2008 alone. The stimulus prompted by the influx of international students has surpassed the revenue …
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Middle East students turning to Canada continuing education
Jump to the full entry & travel map Memphis, Tennessee, United States Hi All!! Spent 3 days in Memphis. Visited Graceland (Elvis Mansion). Did an audio tour through his Mansion, his museums, his two private jets and his car museum
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Memphis & the King! — Memphis, Tennessee, United States
Filed under: Beauty , News , Makeup Celebrity makeup artist Roxanna Floyd. Courtesy Photo Celebrity makeup artist to mega stars like Whitney Houston, Halle Berry, Mary J.
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Roxanna Floyd, Celebrity Makeup Artist and Fashion Fair Creative Director, Dead at 49
What’s variously called the “ cognitive capitalism ” model, or Paul Romer’s New Growth Theory, assumes that technological progress and increased efficiency will lead to “economic growth” in the sense of the total volume of monetized economic activity.
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Abundance Creates Utility But Destroys Exchange Value
Filed under: Celebrity , Red Carpet In honor of the Oscar Nominations for 2010, we figured we’d do a little fashion flashback to see what the red carpet was like ten years ago. After all, many of today’s big stars were still rising stars in 2000. Penelope Cruz , nominated this year for ” Nine ,” was still building her acting career in 2000, having just wrapped one of her first major films, “All the Pretty Horses,” with Matt Damon
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Oscar Nominations 2010 Fashion Flashback
Illustration: Pat Pauly Water, Earth II 2008 I have chosen three pieces to represent the textile artwork of Pat Pauly. They are all part of a series she has entitled Water, Earth and are a good indication as to the techniques that Pauly has imbued her work with. Pauly’s use of a bold, but confident colour palette is strikingly made apparent in these pieces.
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The Tensions of Nature as Seen by Textile Artist Pat Pauly
I had my overnight with the “famous” guy last night. In his case, famous means: well known in his circles, and maybe you’ve seen him once or twice in a magazine or on TV. In the interests of keeping his identity anonymous, there are some things I would like to say in this entry that I’m going to have to leave out. He’s an esteemed (according to one description of him that google brought up) antique collector/dealer, or at least enough so that if I mentioned certain pieces/collections he had, someone in the antique world might figure out who he is. I realize my blog isn’t really at the level yet that he would have to worry, but who knows, maybe it will take off overnight and I’ll suddenly be outing my johns. I’ll save that for my multi-million dollar, Heidi Fleiss book deal. Until then, he’ll just be known as “antique man.” We talked a lot on the phone beforehand. He was very talkative (on the phone and in person), which I liked. After setting up our meeting and then confirming a couple times via text and phone, I arrived around 8pm. He met me at the door with a beautiful bulldog, who seemed very friendly. He was probably in his 50s (the man, not the dog), but wasn’t terribly out of shape or bad looking. Just looked his age. He led me into his apartment, which was beautiful, although a little cluttered, which seems to be the antique collector’s way. His fireplace was going, which was very nice. I later learned that the building used to be owned by a famous couple… who I shouldn’t mention. I truly wish I could be more specific, but just know, the apartment and the things he had in it were simply beautiful. We made small talk as he grabbed a bottle of Prosecco and poured us both a glass. He told me that I looked different from my pictures, which I’ve been told before. I need to go through all my picture options with my roommate sometime. Although nobody has been disappointed (they say I’m better in person) I don’t want to misrepresent myself. He said I looked a little more… mature? I also am a little scruffier than my pics make me out to be. As he came back from the kitchen he grabbed me and went for the mouth. We made out for a minute, then headed over to the sofa where we lounged, chatted, listened to some music, and fended off his dog, who was pretty nippy. I think he was jealous of the attention that I was getting that was usually his. We listened to a lot of music… jazz mostly. We had talked on the phone about some hard to find CDs he had gotten that he was excited to play for me
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heaven knows, anything goes.