Handicrafts – A favorable effort to Encourage and Preserve Religious & Traditional Artifacts
Handicrafts showcase the country’s cultural and aesthetic production history of that country. The resonance of ethnic Indians could be well recognized that living in the alien craft masterpieces
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Handicrafts – A favorable effort to Encourage and Preserve Religious & Traditional Artifacts
Today is The Textile Blog’s second birthday. I would like to thank all of those, whether followers or casual readers, who by visiting the blog have encouraged me to continue and regularly maintain this site.
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The Textile Blog’s Second Anniversary
As I sit here in a comfy chair at Starbucks, typing away on my laptop, I think it odd that my thoughts drift to visions of destruction and desolation. Odd because my imaginings entail the loss of pretty much everything I enjoy as I sit here: my iced mocha, the wireless internet I am using, my car outside, even the sense of safety and security that I feel. Odd also because, while I entertain notions of what it would be like, a part of me is sure that I really have no concept of what I contemplate. No frame of reference. I could assume that since I have played numerous games, seen numerous movies, and read numerous books centered on the theme of the post apocalypse that I do indeed have plenty of vicarious experience to draw upon. But how much do I really know about something if what I know is solely based on things fed to me through popular culture . Just because I have watched as many war movies as I possibly could, and read as much as I could about military engagements and what not, does not mean that I have any idea of what it truly means to be in a war. An idea, maybe, but nothing more. Something tells me that if I were really and truly there, I would not be quite so into it. And yet, this idea of the end times fascinates me. Why? What is it about the end of everything that is so alluring? Is it some kind of species awareness that makes us afraid that something may happen to wipe us from history completely? Or, is it because Hollywood just wanted to make another bad disaster movie? There are so many ways we have envisioned the demise of our species. The pole shift that will occur in 2012, that was supposedly foretold by the Mayans is a good example. It sounds really exciting. But when you really research the whole 2012 thing, you get all bogged down in Mesoamerican Long Counts, and previous worlds that have been destroyed, or were they destroyed, some say no, and after a while, you don’t even care anymore. Did you know that the Aztecs believed that there were four “Suns,” or worlds previous to this one, all of which were ultimately destroyed? Then again, the Aztecs themselves were, for the most part, destroyed by European invaders, so maybe they were on to something after all. Let’s not forget the vikings. According to Norse mythology there were a series of events, called Ragnarok , that signaled the end of the world. A great battle between the gods, followed by a bunch of natural disasters , and eventually the submersion of the world under water. Then again, of course a sea-faring people would predict that eventually the oceans would cover there lands. It just makes sense. Even Christianity has its own doomsday predictions. The rise of the Anti-Christ, followed by the return of Jesus Christ , and ultimately, Judgment Day. Or something along those lines. I’m not quite sure about the particulars, but if you are really interested you could read the Left Behind series by Tim LaHaye . I think there was even a movie starring Kirk Cameron
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Reflections On The End Times
Illustration: Traditional Bucovina rug design Traditional rug and carpet design comes in a number of different styles within the confines of the borders of modern day Romania. Regional variations used to be much more acute than perhaps they are today, due to better transport, communication and general interaction. The individual styles of various craft forms that were built up over centuries across Europe, had much more to do with geographical isolation than it did with any significant cultural purity, though this of course cannot be ruled out
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Traditional Bucovina Rug Work
One of the good things about living in Oslo are the coffee bars. Norwegians drink a lot of coffe (a healthy dose of 9.9 kg anually per capita , only second to the Finnish) and perhaps that is one reason why there are so many coffee bars around
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Testing salt in coffee with Tim Wendelboe
Cute frocks have been every woman’s favorite sun dress since the retro 60′s! Frocks are one of the most comfortable and perfectly cute summer dresses. In fact, summer frocks do complete justice with the word “Cute” in the cute summer dresses. Opt for cotton, linen and silk frocks, as these fabrics are natural.
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Summer Frocks for Girls
Nowadays, to highlight style and glamour women have come up with the perfect solution for a more convenient but still fashionable look. For this matter, they have invented imitations, the perfect alternative for original accessories.
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Interchange expensive originals for convenient replica bags
Although considered by many as simply a whim of exercise, yoga practice, in fact, helped thousands of people improve their physical and mental fitness. Remember the golden rule of not judging a book by its cover, if you think yoga’s all about bending and breathing and nothing else, think again.
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Yoga – Your Guide To Physical Fitness
Filed under: Beauty , News , Makeup , Skin & Body Michelle Bombshell McGee with her current face tattoos (left), as the tattoos will look in 40 years (center) and how she’d look without face tattoos (right). Photo: SoCal Glamour Girls/Splash News By now, we’ve all seen (a little too much of) Michelle Bombshell McGee , the tattoo model who became Jesse James ‘ mistress, breaking up his marriage to Oscar-winner Sandra Bullock . Beyond the obvious “what was he thinking,” what surprises us is purely cosmetic: The woman has a tattoo…on her face
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Michelle Bombshell McGee Pictures: What Her Face Tattoos Will Look Like in 40 Years
Few investments provide an immediate return but antiques can add character to your home, they are environmentally friendly (the ultimate recyclables) and current low prices offer an opportunity for excellent medium and long term gains. The under-stated elegance of Georgian furniture mixes well with contemporary designs and the mechanical ingenuity of eighteenth century cabinetmakers may surprise you. Here are ten things to remember when you investing in antiques: 1.
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Investing in Antiques
“Who would want to be 100 years old?” “Anyone who is 99,” goes the joke. I can’t tell you how happy I’ll be in a few weeks. My family and I will gather in Chicago to celebrate my second cousin’s 100th birthday
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Life 100 Years Ago: My Centenarian Cousin
When I entered the solo show of Melanie Boreham at Hardware Gallery , I entered a forest. Suspended from different heights from the ceiling were forty bonsai-sized trees. These floating trees captivated me immediately because of their defiance of gravity, floating in a dream-like constellation.
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Melanie Boreham in Sydney
Illustration: English crewelwork Crewelwork, or perhaps a more technically accurate phrase would be crewel embroidery, is a distinct technique of embroidery that has a long history in Europe, and in England can trace its history back to the construction of the Bayeux tapestry and beyond. Although crewelwork often used outlined compositional aids in order to guide the stitching, it could equally be constructed without any guides, or only basic and roughly drawn guides, allowing the crewel worker an element of creative freedom, adding details as they progressed.
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English Embroidered Crewelwork
Lots of talking and not so much looking on the slate tonight, starting with a couple of events at the U of T campus. The first, at the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, carries the unwieldy title “Two conversations on the intersections of love and politics in contemporary art practices;” it's the first of a two part series, bearing the subtitle “Love is the motive force of every emancipatory politics.” I'm not entirely sure what that means, but the series is organized by Toronto force Adrian Blackwell and Christine Shaw, and brings a lot of great people for the conversation; tonight's roster included Power Plant curator Helena Reckitt and Kika Thorne , among others; part two, next week, will put AGO curator Michelle Jacques with artists Luis Jacob and Mike Hoolboom (and others) to discuss the equally mysterious, not terribly emotionally resonant (given the subject) title “Love is an event ignited by the distance between two polarities.” I can only guess it'll be better in execution.
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Talking about love and other things tonight
The Japan Society in NYC is currently showing Graphic Heroes, Magic Monsters: Japanese Prints by Utagawa Kuniyoshi from the Arthur R. Miller Collection Utagawa Kuniyoshi’s vivid scenes from history and legend, wildly popular 150 years ago, are a major influence on the work of today’s manga and anime artists.
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Graphic Heroes, Magic Monsters
In the nineties, Spike Lee switched his game up, going from being “the black Woody Allen”, to really exploring his own personal style. Between Clockers and He Got Game, he began exploring some of the same territory as Martin Scorsese, creating these gritty, urban films with a real sense of danger and focused on issues of family
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A Downloadable Movie To See: Spike Lee’s He Got Game
Illustration: Brenda H Smith Strata 3 2006 The textile artwork of Brenda H Smith deals largely with the landscape settings and environment of her native northern Arizona. Through a system of colour tones, textures and pattern, she is able to breathe life into the textile medium that she uses, infusing it with the in-depth characterizations of the environment that she experiences around her. Illustration: Brenda H Smith Betatakin 2007 One of the themes of Smith’s work and the one I have chosen to highlight in this article, is that of geology
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Brenda H Smith and the Strata of Landscape
Monday night I watched American Pickers, a reality show that is on The History Channel. The show is about a couple of antique dealers who live near my home, who go rummaging around in people’s attics, basements, barns, and stores, to find antique “gold”.
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American Pickers and the Gospel
wooden jewelry boxes India is indeed one of the major exporters of handicrafts and gift items. Owing to a heritage of rich art and craft culture in ancient times, Indian Handicraft sector is recognizable for their most popular craft items like earthenware, pottery, woodwork, sculpting , scarves, shawls, textiles, embroidered and knitted goods, zari items, jewelry, etc.
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India handicrafts, Crafts of India
Just when you thought that you were finally making headway through the riches of the Philagrafika shows, 90 clay shows and events are starting to open all around town. The multiple shows are in conjunction with the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA) conference in Philadelphia from March 21 to April 3. I went to two that were early off the blocks, and they are as different as can be.
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Clay shows begin–Ai Weiwei at Arcadia; bodies at the Mutter