tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-48098176723081173512024-03-06T06:54:51.154+00:00felt? felt!AnnaBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09458188093832773505noreply@blogger.comBlogger73125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4809817672308117351.post-54996970719409016892016-03-03T11:27:00.002+00:002016-03-03T11:27:59.613+00:00Hands At Play<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">More fun at our 'Felt' workshops, or more like messy play for Grown-ups. Some educational psychologist once said that we learn most, whether adult or child, when we are playing... our brains are relaxed, and using our hands the 'what if' questions of experimentation and creativity start to flow.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">We are wrapping stones and bars of soap with wool, and then felting the wool to the shape. Felting around a bar of soap, is very bubbly...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Felting around a rock to make a paper weight.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"> Using Gotland fleece with a few colours makes the warm colours leap out, here a big stone is being felted to make a door-stop. An integral handel has been added, which only just shows in this picture.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Felt beads, each hand-rolled, arranged look like the planets.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">A treasured bead, a work in progress.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">This pebble became a felt wrapped 'rock pet'.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Next week we will start to design bags to be made of felt. So we will be looking at shrinkage, template resist design, and laying out on a larger scale. So far most of our felt pieces have been quite small. We will need to work over a couple of weeks as we only have the morning to work in. Some pieces will have to be transported soggy. More messy play.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Each week we learn something different. As a facilitator I learn that being playfull is the easiest way to learn, but also that everyone's creativity is completely unique. All have access to the same wool, the same water, but the hands are different, the 'what-if' questions are different.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I heard a story about Einstein. He was asked how come he was so clever. He answered that he kep asking questions. Thought provoking.</span><br />
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AnnaBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09458188093832773505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4809817672308117351.post-60254626324409661502016-01-27T12:21:00.001+00:002016-03-03T08:56:47.026+00:00Collage works in progress<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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AnnaBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09458188093832773505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4809817672308117351.post-89247207677980847782015-12-28T13:02:00.000+00:002015-12-28T13:02:41.362+00:00Eggs of wool<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">A basket of eggs - handspun balls of wool, created from special wool. A new passion, to spin is strangely restful, once distressed to some degree. Guaranteed to make you swear when the thread breaks and disappears. But once mistressed, it feels so good, the new yarn zipping from your fingers as the fibres snap into yarn. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Spinning has kept me sane over the last months. At odd moments to distract my mind I've sat down at the spinning wheel to calmly make yarn. And bingo my mind is calmed. The oddest thing but it works, and then also spinning becomes addictive, and the 'what if' question arises, then the I wonder if I can... Very satisfying</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">This lustrous yarn was created from a special wool, from Lunesdale in Lancashire. The sheep are mules bred from Swaledales and Blue Face Leicesters. This particular sheep lives at Tunstall in the Lunesdale valley - a special place where my family live.</span></div>
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Beautiful cosy and unique hand-made felt hats created by Jacqui and Sophie earlier this year in the felt hat making workshop. Visit the 'Courses and Workshops' page to find out this Autumn's classes.<br />
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At the Totnes and District Agricultural Show last Sunday I met lovely people, sold Peg Looms and handmade felt (lots - Thankyou Elaine).<br />
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While there we visited the <a href="http://www.guggenheim.org/bilbao" target="_blank">Guggenheim</a>. Perhaps the flower power puppy (<a href="http://www.jeffkoons.com/" target="_blank">Jeff Koons</a>) was the most joyful piece of sculpture ever made...</div>
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A much admired glamourous truck on show at the 2014 Contemporary Craft Fair!<br />
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I managed to flit out to look at all the lovely pieces on view, but really think the truck was my favourite. Well maybe apart from <a href="http://www.susiegillespie.com/" target="_blank">Susie Gillespie's</a> hand woven cushions and perhaps <a href="http://www.marcovitchshakerbox.co.uk/" target="_blank">marcovitch shaker boxes</a>.</div>
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On Friday afternoon we were making needle felted pictures using wool fibres, both carded and wooly locks, as well as silk and flax fibres, yarn and fabric.</div>
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Which we wrapped in lovely natural wool - gotland (because it is tough, easy felting and lustrous), chocolate Shetland (for the lovely rich colour), Manx Lochtan (gingery brown colour), natural flax and tussah silk fibres as well as organic cotton scrim.</div>
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So impressed with what folks made in such a short space of time. - they only had 2 hours per workshop, so they really were just a taster. What always amazes me is that each workshopped has exactly the same materials but makes something so exquisitely different. Lovely! Thank you for sharing your creativity with me.</div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">in honour of the time of year, the flowers are heady with sweet scents</span></b></h3>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">You will see that I have had a bit of a break from Blogging, and the virtual world generally as finding that I need to limit screen-time to avoid migraines. Perhaps its an age thing… as I've never had them before. Dipping my toe back into the virtual pond to see how it goes. Wish me luck.</span></div>
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made of old silk scarves felted with blue face leicester fibres, and each tassle handmade first before being felted in place on the scarf - love how the old fabrics are revitalised by felting and become reminiscent of old tapestries - sold this one years ago but rediscovered the photo in the depths of iPhoto. Setting for the photo is special too - all 'done up' now and made tidy - expect they burnt the old chair.. Used to be such an other-worldly place - The Secret Garden. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">silk fabric scraps with hand blended fibres</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">silk fabric scraps with brown Blue Face Leicester fibres</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">silk scraps and handblended fibres</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">silk scraps with moorit shetland fibres</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">memory cloth - silk, cotton, linen with wool</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">chiffon with wool and silk fibres</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">muslin with coloured merino fibres</td></tr>
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AnnaBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09458188093832773505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4809817672308117351.post-47498249828773356272014-03-05T10:45:00.000+00:002014-03-05T10:45:33.522+00:00this morning<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
still ... the slightest frost<div>
seagulls soaring overhead</div>
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weaving their way inland</div>
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storm? another one coming</div>
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hazel's time powdering pollen</div>
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catkins golden rain</div>
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green velvet covered oak</div>
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black velvet dog sniffing</div>
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steaming woods grey light</div>
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gasping into the bright</div>
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bejewelled with melting frost</div>
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joy the light returns, not lost</div>
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AnnaBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09458188093832773505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4809817672308117351.post-61146381544520478562014-03-04T13:09:00.000+00:002014-03-04T13:09:15.182+00:00bread experiments<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
a bread post - a post about dough. Have been experimenting and learning to make bread on and off over the years. Here are some pictures of the latest results. Had a lot of help from Dan Leppard's book the handmade loaf. So far only success has been with leaven from strong white flour. The spelt experiment coincided with the wood-fired beastie having a rest (had to rod out the chimney). Long suffering family have put up with my experiments but still prefer shop-bought bread - don't blame them. Most rock hard loaves have ended up as chook breakfast - they'll eat pretty much anything (though not keen on rotten onions).<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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AnnaBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09458188093832773505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4809817672308117351.post-58082474361204639342014-02-26T09:57:00.002+00:002014-03-28T22:36:31.405+00:00Student Work<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Today you will find new pictures in the Gallery of Work by Students.</div>
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We are just coming to the end of a Felt-Making level two course at The Mansion in Totnes. The students have worked extremely hard, and made some beautiful pieces - see for yourselves <a href="http://annabrindley.blogspot.co.uk/p/students-pictures.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</div>
AnnaBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09458188093832773505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4809817672308117351.post-13070885105691995832014-02-22T18:37:00.000+00:002014-02-22T18:37:23.946+00:00seeking out wool<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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AnnaBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09458188093832773505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4809817672308117351.post-1657784708883550712014-02-12T00:53:00.000+00:002014-02-12T00:53:44.553+00:00Prized Possessions<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Handsown, felted for travelling, to keep those needles safe, tied with linen with a handmade elder wood bead, some died with applewood. Little Loch Broom, August 2013</div>
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AnnaBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09458188093832773505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4809817672308117351.post-3113719467482664052014-02-05T10:16:00.000+00:002014-02-05T10:16:23.864+00:00The Mousehole Cat<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Another storm is lashing the south west of the UK. The windows have rattled, the roof has leaked, the tarp has blown off the wood-pile BUT the roof still holds on the wood-shed. Relief. <br />
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Further afield the railway line has been swept away near <a href="https://twitter.com/networkrail/status/430336067946835968/photo/1" target="_blank">Newton Abbot</a>, meaning the mainline to Devon and Cornwall is seriously disrupted with services replaced by buses.<br />
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One of our favourite story-books was The Mousehole Cat, where the storm-cat stops the fisher-folk from getting out to sea to catch fish. The storms roll in day after day with no gap for fishing, until hero of the day 'Mowzer' the cat, tames the storm-cat so that Tom can go fishing again. Then 'Star-Gazey Pie' is order of the day.<br />
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<br />Here's a picture of the storm-cat with Mowzer, who is singing to calm the storm. We could do with your help today, Mowzer.<div>
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Have you ever seen a show by Puppetcraft? A most amazing group of puppeteers, hand-making puppets from wood. Went to the puppet-show <a href="http://www.puppetcraft.co.uk/trist.html" target="_blank">Tristan and Isolde</a> many years ago, and was gripped by the tragedy. <br />
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Here is a picture of Tom and Mowzer the cat - would love to go see this show one day, even though my children are so grown up now. Details of PuppetCraft's The Mousehole Cat are <a href="http://www.puppetcraft.co.uk/mousehole.html" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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AnnaBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09458188093832773505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4809817672308117351.post-75990904776196945852014-02-04T08:36:00.003+00:002014-02-04T08:36:22.705+00:00Yoga at Bala Brook<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Ahh Bliss! Last night our yoga class restarted after a 7 week break for mid-winter. Our teacher is Jo Pelly who runs a weekly class at <a href="http://www.balabrook.org.uk/" target="_blank">Bala Brook</a>. Always I sleep so well on a Monday night, tension released, fulfilled with a sense of well-being and one-ness with the cosmos. On Tuesday morning, I feel rested, my joints oiled.<br />
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Last night we attempted this pose but mostly fell over! And then we laughed. So good to laugh. Although mostly our poses were a gentle easing back into our yoga practise. Amazingly Jo is in her 70s, but maybe not amazingly because yoga keeps the positive youthful energy flowing.<br />
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Are you looking for a yoga class? There are a few free places - ---<br />
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I am extremely pleased to show you my new tuffet - as described in the nursery rhyme about Miss Muffet! It is firm and adds comfort to the chair, and being made of wool is warming. While washed to remove most of the lanolin and dirt it still smells comfortingly of sheep.</div>
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Carrying on the nursery rhyme theme - In and Out the Dusty Bluebells - although not sure of the rest of the words but remember dancing to this one in the playground.<br />
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A very good sculpture in the background made for the Tagore festival at Dartington 2 years ago.</div>
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I need to find a new kind of warp - something less Kitchen cotton string and more in keeping with the rustic woolliness of the tuffet. A friend gave me a <a href="http://www.romneymarshwools.co.uk/about/index.php" target="_blank">Romney</a> fleece - which makes up two of the white stripes - a kind of sheep bred for the marshes in Kent, but this ram living happily on soggy Dartmoor - so happy in a damp climate. His fleece was open, a reasonable staple but very little crimp and I reckoned that it would not be so good for felting, although it will spin up well. A lovely oily fleece that left my hands moisturised from the lanolin.</div>
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The black stripes are from a <a href="http://hebrideansheep.org.uk/" target="_blank">Black Hebridean</a> fleece, another gift from a friend. This fleece was cotted (felted on the sheep) and had a very rich sheepy smell, so again not good for felting. But great for weaving.</div>
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This tuffet is a birthday present. For the next one I'm going to experiment with using a warp of yarn made from nettles (bought at Totnes market, and spun from the giant himalayan nettle!). The blacks and greys of the hebridean fleece remind me of the brooding Dartmoor landscape at this time of year - black crow and jackdaw shapes wheeling against storming scudding skies.<br />
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AnnaBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09458188093832773505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4809817672308117351.post-87327092875001702662014-01-15T09:42:00.000+00:002014-01-15T09:42:46.343+00:00peg loom aka easy weaving<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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AnnaBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09458188093832773505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4809817672308117351.post-46240008911867091442014-01-14T10:02:00.001+00:002014-01-14T10:06:31.640+00:00spring<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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sun at last<br />the sweet heady cocktail of witchazel, damp earth and sunshine<br />birds singing fit to burst<br />blackbirds bathing<br />joy<br />
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AnnaBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09458188093832773505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4809817672308117351.post-26425661551410679002013-12-27T14:09:00.001+00:002013-12-27T14:09:43.733+00:00New Felt Making Course Starting January 2014<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<br />On the new course for beginners you will learn how to create a beautiful picture such as this. Maggie's Tree of Life combines wool fibres with detail in silk and yarn using both wet felting and dry needle felting techniques. Visit the '<a href="http://annabrindley.blogspot.co.uk/p/courses.html" target="_blank">Courses</a>' page for details. I love Maggie's unique choice of colours, and the way the yarn 'wiggles'! There are more pictures in the <a href="http://annabrindley.blogspot.co.uk/p/students-pictures.html" target="_blank">Gallery</a> of pieces you could make too.<div>
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AnnaBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09458188093832773505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4809817672308117351.post-19554631550240344502013-09-11T10:34:00.000+01:002013-09-11T10:34:00.928+01:00feltmaking is good for you (and the planet)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Every now and again a piece of <a href="http://dcrn.org.uk/" target="_blank">junk mail</a> lands on my door mat that I really look forward to receiving. Issue 13 of JunkMail describes some of the efforts ongoing to <a href="http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/campaigns/toxics/water/detox/" target="_blank">De-toxify Textiles</a>. <div>
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One of the facts is that 75% of UK textiles end up as waste in landfill. Well I reckon that's a really bad thing as most textiles are biodegradable and would break down to give off greenhouses gases. So simple, lets not throw away clothes to landfill, lets do something else.</div>
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Making felt out of old clothes is pleasing - here are a few pictures of the Memory Cloth where old cloths have been repurposed into a protector cape. Charming model remarked that she liked it. <br /><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<br />I know this is quite simplistic in my analysis, and that even commiting to using charity shops for donating old worn out clothes and purchasing our clothing needs is fraught with complications. 'Most clothing collected for recycing is sold overseas to developing countries, where this has a big impact on local markets and damages local indigenous textile production.' - see JunkMail article.</div>
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There are an increasing number of SLOW Textile designers out there, and many voices calling for sanity in our attitudes to fashion. <a href="http://www.upcyclista.org/topics/fashion/" target="_blank">Upcycling</a> is all the rage. The buzz word is 'third hand', not just second hand anymore. Just visit <a href="http://www.ravelry.com/tour/getting-started" target="_blank">Ravelry</a> to realise the number of knitters doing their thing for sheep and the planet, as well quench their passion for knitting.</div>
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Here the light shines through the Memory Cloth showing off the textures, and subtle shades of white. Charming model looks concerned that the milk crate will tumble. (photographing white is quite tricky)</div>
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<br />Over the next couple of weeks I'm hoping to get around to visiting some of the Open Studios in this years offering from <a href="http://www.devonartistnetwork.co.uk/AboutDOS" target="_blank">Devon Open Studios</a>, in search of textures, and felt. Already seen some gorgeous work from Jane Ayres whose textile work can be seen at <a href="http://www.lydiacorbettart.com/exhibitions.aspx" target="_blank">Lydia Corbett's</a> studio.<br /><br /></div>
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AnnaBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09458188093832773505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4809817672308117351.post-66880076493477280692013-09-04T08:19:00.000+01:002013-09-04T08:19:48.853+01:00In All Their Imperfect Glory<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The tree weighed down by fruitfulness - glorious. Crisp, delicious, sweet smelling a gift... But not for long, they need to be eaten now. Nothing compares to an apple straight from the tree, and didn't Eve know it.</div>
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