Fiber arts news
Brown cotton – new world native, acadian marvel
The brown cotton fiber, a native to the americas, sounds delightful. Here, a bit of history on the fiber and the blankets that early acadians made, as it relates to a just-premiering documentary.
Weaving exhibits at Brattleboro Museum and Art Center
Children of the oasis – Tapestry works by children from Cairo
The Gnome Project
An inspirational story of felting a gnome a day, while moving with you family across country (to Maine!) and other adventures. Read this for encouragement to make fiber arts a daily activity, and for adorable gnomes! A gnome a day also has an adorable blog.
What size are those needles?
David Cole, an artist with wide-ranging interests that have had fiber-arts themes, is having a retrospective in Providence, RI. Somehow we’d missed his back-hoe “knitting machine” performance art piece in 2005; he knit an american flag. The video is worth a gander – pretty impressive… but what size are those needles?
