Tag: textiles
7 Sep
The art of boro is one born of necessity—agricultural and working class families prolonged the lives of their clothing and cloth possessions...
28 Jun
Waxed cotton, light as a feather, baby change purse as charming as its parent…hails from Paris (natch), but designed by Bess Nielsen of...
16 Apr
A stunningly beautiful, moving and, ultimately, sobering exhibition of Plains Indian masterworks is a must see at the Metropolitan Museum of...
12 Jul
Oh, I love the internet! SHOP LATITUDE has come in to my box for months, and it has always been axed by my delete button. Until yesterday....
29 Sep
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is New York’s preeminent storehouse of riches. Fronting Fifth Avenue in the lower 80’s and backing...
12 Nov
I have written in the past about Florence Teillet and her glorious hand woven textiles. She is worth many return postings just a she is worth...
6 Sep
The traders came from the Congo laden with Kuba. Gorgeous pieces, we laid them out in the garden and began to negotiate.
29 Aug
28 Aug
On the eve of my departure for Kenya, my heart place, I offer you a glimpse of what makes this country and this continent so unique. I first...
27 Oct
I first met Keith Recker when I was serving on the Board of Directors of Aid To Artisans, that remarkable organization which, under the stewardship...
25 Sep
For me as a New Yorker, the greatest compensation for the passing of summer and long days spent outside are the new art shows that draw me into...
17 Nov
The Museum of Arts and Design has opened its Global Africa Project, a blockbuster show of African and African-inspired art and craftwork. Many...
21 Jan
I met Ellen Dorsch a number of years back in the Handmade section of the biannual NY Gift Show, a wonderful, wide display of textured...
27 Sep
Extraordinary travel is magic often created in the simplest of terms. 37 years ago this month I was driving across the face of Africa. I...
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