…to which it sends me to its footnotes and source materials. In other words, does it excite me to look further? This collection of sixteen essays, most of which deal……
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…very exciting 21st century materials and manufacture explorations, the results of which, and the true costs of which have yet to be fully calculated. One such company is Seattle based……
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This month’s SDA Book Club review comes to us from our recurring reviewer, Faith Hagenhofer. For September, Faith reviews “The New Politics of the Handmade” edited by Anthea Black and……
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…focusing craft materials and skills, and the resultant objects and their makers as perhaps THE central activity in the making of America. This single-country view doesn’t preclude the acts of……
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…pages ( which she calls practice exercises), complete with materials lists and directions. These, however, are more like tools for grounding the community-based art projects she has described into a……
Read More »…you’ve read this book, leave a comment and let us know what you think! Do you have a recommendation for a recent fiber-related book you think should be included in……
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There are so many fiber-related exhibitions throughout the year, we can’t fit them all into our quarterly Journal, so we’ve decided to take our On Display department to the blog……
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…in 19th-century America. Like many other combinations in the book, the visual impact of seeing the lyrical botanical pattern from the fabric screen juxtaposed with the bold geometric pattern of……
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This year, Surface Design Association wants to share more of the amazing fibers and textiles-related books out there with our new SDA Book Club. The books featured will range from……
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…comprise the diary. Often a book will nudge toward others, not because they deal with similar topics, but because they are somehow related. For me several of these were: National……
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