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Textile Tuesday: An Introduction to Carrickmacross Lace
By A. Zarinah Nuri Traditional Carrickmacross lace techniques (detail). Courtesy Theresa Kelly The rhythmic pulling and pushing of needle and thread through layers of cloth can calm anxieties and evoke ...
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Textile Tuesday: Qualeasha Wood
Qualeasha Wood is a textile artist whose work contemplates realities around black female bodies, contemporary technology, and consumption. Meet this young artist reimagining craft in a digital era. Qualeasha Wood ...
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Textile Tuesday with LaShawnda Crowe Storm for “Past is Present”
Artist LaShawnda Crowe Storm presents her contribution to "Past Is Present," an exhibition curated by Jonathan Square ...
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Textile Tuesday at the Walters Art Museum, The Abduction of Helen Series
Abduction of Helen series. Dario di Giovanni (ca. 1420–before 1498) and collaborators, The Departure of Helen and Her Entourage for Cythera. empera and Pressbrokat on spruce. The Walters Art Museum, ...
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Textile Tuesday: Julia Kwon’s Unapologetically Asian Face Mask
by: Susan Brown, Acting Head of Textiles at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Unapologetically Asian Face Mask, 2020Designed and made by Julia Kwon (American, b. 1987)Silk, pieced and sewn; cotton ...
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Featured Object: Golf Magic
Golf Magic, designed by Brian Connelly (American, 1926 – 1962) for Associated American Artists, printed by Signature Fabrics, ca. 1953. Screen-printed cotton. Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, 2003-23-1, Museum purchase ...
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