Alisha P. Wormsley and Kite merge traditional craft and digital technology in what they call a “cosmologyscape.” Credit: Courtesy photo The Big Bang, the Jacquard loom, indigenous traditions, ...
The title of a new group show at the Phoenix in Waterbury is slightly misleading: “Warp & Weft” seems to suggest a display of fiber arts. In fact, it is that and much more. Along with woven works, ...
A decade after completing my doctoral work, I decided to reconnect with my students by learning something entirely foreign to my talents, education, and experience. I decided to learn to weave. A loom ...
Thirty years ago, when high-style housewares company Alessi pioneered the shift from in-house to licensed design, an explosion of creativity led to Frank Gehry tea kettles and vases by Zaha Hadid. Now ...
The sleepy streets of a small town in the south of Portugal seem an unlikely place for investigations into the way great European paintings were created. Yet patient research by a passionate and ...
Owen Spafford describes Warp and Weft (Dlúth & Inneach) as “a cultural exchange between West Kerry, Leeds and Tipperary”. As such it draws its juices not only from the rich musical wellspring of the ...