Too big to drop through the letterbox, your scribe's cloven hoofed neighbour kindly delivered the package left in his custody by her postie. Inside was the new Fransje Killaars artist monograph published by 010 Publishers, Rotterdam. Killaar's polychromatic textile,...
Today is Thanksgiving in the United States of America (also known as the "Magnited States of America" to a former customer of the no talkin', no textin' Alamo Drafthouse cinema in Austin, Texas.) A national holiday, it's a day to give thanks, tuck into a Bacchanalian...
Finding treasure in the attic doesn't just happen to punters on the Antiques Roadshow. The launch yesterday of Warner Textile Archive's Wendy Bray wallpaper collection (nine designs) at the Fine Cell Work pop-up shop in Mayfair, London, was the result of a rummage...
Grayson Perry, Royal Academician, Turner Prize winner and fêted contemporary British artist? Meet Marguerite Zorach. Several years ago your scribe hit pay dirt in a charity shop. Ann Wiseman's 1969 book Rag Tapestries and Wool Mosaics introduced your scribe to...
Jack Frost knocked on your scribe's front door this morning and declared the interior temperature as officially "frosty". That means just one thing (other than loading the wheelbarrow with gold bullion and trundling down to the gas provider); it's time to break out...
Nick Hartwright and Mark Hanlon collaborate with "the world's finest cutting edge artists and designers to create beautiful, limited-edition hand-knotted rugs." Together they are Foundation, a new rug company. Foundation's inaugural exhibition - "Rug Addicts" - opened...
On the back of the V&A's fabulous Hollywood Costume exhibition, how about following it up with a Hollywood Carpet exhibition? Andrew Hearst has designed these carpet tiles based on the creepy hotel floors in Stanley Kubrick's The Shining and is looking for a...
Fanfare Aaron Copland style please. It's time for your scribe's roll call of favourite carpets, rugs and textiles from Decorex International 2012. (In no particular order.) We Are Front "exceptional rugs" will be opening their London showroom in Spring 2013. At...
Jan Kath's new gallery opening in Stuttgart featured a magic carpet skating past, giving the assembled throng the chance to admire not just the fine art and workmanship of the rugs on display, but also their heelflips and ollies, dude. RW http://www.jan-kath.de/