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3 Curious Embroidered Tapestries
I have been fascinated by the Bayeux Tapestry ever since I first learned about it, not so much because of the story it tells, but by its sheer scale. The Bayeux Tapestry –…
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Three Things I’m Curious About This Week #36
I will always be amused and slightly horrified by the story of how hippos were nearly introduced to the US as farm animals. They’re only the most dangerous animal in the world. What…
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Wild About Reclaiming the Domestic Arts
Embroidery. Knitting. Quilting. Weaving. Each of these craft forms takes skill and time to do well and each has been used to tell stories as elaborate as any painting or sculpture. And yet,…
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Three Things I’m Curious About This Week #13
These houses on Lake Erie that were encased in ice thanks to Winter Storm Elliot. These two embroideries by Josh Luke Davis. The first features all the different orders of bird species, the…
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Three Things I’m Curious About This Week #7
This Parisan apartment, which was abandoned in 1942, and rediscovered, perfectly intact, in 2010. These ‘ice eggs’ created by wave action on a beach in Finland. These aerial embroideries by UK artist Victoria…
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Three Things I’m Curious About This Week #2
This embroidered computer by Irene Posch that actually works. A functional thing that is also beautiful. As it should be. 2. These ancient footprints that reveal a story about biodiversity 6,000 years ago.…
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Three Things I’m Curious About This Week #1
The Dracula Parrot, an New Guinean bird that looks like someone stitched the head of a vulture onto the body of a parrot. Look at those red feathers! 2. This piece of word…
a miscellany of wonder
