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Sarah Jennings Sculpture: October 2010
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Sarah Jennings Sculpture: Banks' Mill Open Studios Weekend
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Banks' Mill Open Studios Weekend. Well I have finally made it to a Banks' Mill. Open studios weekend.it's taken me four years, but it was well worth the few hours we spent exploring the four floors of creative businesses. Highlights for me included:. Paintings and sculpture, especially ones made using thousands of balloons, working with balloons myself. S detailed illustrations of local places and last but not least Rachel Emmerson's. Other purchases included:a print from Karate Grafika Ltd.
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Historic Crafts: Jorabs – Ethnic Socks that travel the globe
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Tuesday, 26 April 2011. Jorabs – Ethnic Socks that travel the globe. This wonderful eye opening story about the world of Jorabs (Ethnic Socks) has been written by Tatyana Tadenev. I would like to thank Tatyana very much for sharing this with me and for allowing me to publish it here on Historic Crafts. You can read more about jorabs and see what Tatyana is up to on her blog Kloobok. Everything about the socks was new and delightful; I wanted to make a pair of my own! Fortunately, a guide was available: A...
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Historic Crafts: Review: Spinning Wool: Beyond the Basics
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Friday, 12 August 2011. Review: Spinning Wool: Beyond the Basics. Spinning Wool: Beyond the Basics. By Anne Field, 2010 (Revised edition). A and C Black Publishers. I have to admit the last section of the book: the projects, was one I didn’t care much for, but then I hardly ever do. There are nevertheless some interesting considerations such as felting/fulling singles in order to stabilise them, then shown knitted up. Thank you for stopping by - I would love to hear your thoughts on this post :-). Review...
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Historic Crafts: Portrait of a Hand Spinner
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Monday, 1 August 2011. Portrait of a Hand Spinner. This is a portrait of Cecile Renaud, a fairly new hand spinner, who is already very accomplished and has some exciting things to share about hand spinning and making her own spindles. Have a look at her ideas on " How to make a CD Spindle. Cecile spinning on her Turkish Spindle from Ist Crafts. How long have you been spinning for? So what kind of fibres have you been spinning? Have you used many different types of spindles? On the Isle of Wight. I really...
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Historic Crafts: About
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Historic Crafts began as a blog in Jan 2010 on the domain www.historic-crafts.com. The old website has now closed down and the post archive has now moved over here to the new blog. Now why have I gone and made a new version of this blog - you may ask? At the same time I want so develop my personal blog www.roued.com. And if you are interested in some of the things I do in terms of crafts and DIY you should keep an eye on that space. I look forward to meeting you on either blogs. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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Historic Crafts: Teaching Knitting a Century Ago
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Wednesday, 15 June 2011. Teaching Knitting a Century Ago. I first published this article. Over on my own blog IngridNation. My 'specialist subject' is craft skills education, and I often come across really interesting books in the course of my research. Here is my take on just one of them. Let me know what you think too. The examiner for the London School Board 100 years ago was one Ethel Dudley. She wrote the 1914 standard school book. Knitting for Infants and Juniors. In her book, Dudley suggested less...
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Historic Crafts: Review: African Textiles
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Sunday, 12 June 2011. African Textiles - Colour and Creativity Across a Continent. By John Gillow, 2009. This book aims to be an illustrated general survey of textiles of the whole African continent. The chapters divide Africa up, region by region, to look closer at each local weaving, dyeing and embroidery tradition. Another technique I have discovered through this book is stitched resist dyeing, where you fold a piece of cloth and use raffia thread to embroider a pattern. The cloth is then dyed and...
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Historic Crafts: Help for the echo flower shawl
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Wednesday, 26 January 2011. Help for the echo flower shawl. In the beginning of January we started the Echo Flower shawl knit-along (KAL). On Ravelry. It's been really fun but along the way we noticed that some notice shawl knitters (Eddie included) were having trouble understanding the construction of a triangular shawl. We have tried making a drawing of the construction of the Echo Flower shawl to help you visualise how the shawl is worked. The flower chart (purple) makes the body of the shawl. Thi...
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Historic Crafts: Nalbinding how-to
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Sunday, 10 April 2011. I am very happy to present as the first post on this new version of Historic Crafts the long awaited how-to on nalbinding. Nalbinding is also known as nalebinding, nailbinding, nålbinding and needlebinding and it is something that readers of Historic Crafts have shown an interest in knowing more about from the beginning. Ane Løser has recently begun studying at The School of the Association of Friends of Textile Art ( HV School. Let's get on with the nalbinding shall we. Place it a...
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