The Sunday Paper #545
March 2, 2025
I’m arising for a little bit of contemporary air after a busy month of weaving with my Weave By way of Winter on-line class (I’ll be sharing a video of the wonderful work created by contributors quickly). Fortunately, this course all the time leaves me feeling energized for what’s subsequent. Throughout these troubling political instances, I’ll proceed to concentrate on creativity as a manner ahead. I discover creativity to be an area the place I can work inside and out of doors of my consolation zone.
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I’d by no means heard of silk embroidered postcards, which had been manufactured throughout WWI (with a historical past previous to that) by ladies residing in cities close to the entrance traces in France and Belgium as presents for troopers. The postcards had been hand stitched, however they had been produced en masse – embroidered on lengthy strips of silk mesh by ladies working at residence – after which despatched to factories in cities akin to Paris for ending. There, they had been lower into particular person items and mounted onto postcards.
These First World Warfare silk postcards conveyed messages between troopers and households. Handcrafted by ladies embroiderers close to the entrance traces, they’re stunning examples of sentimentality and wartime trade.
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This headline caught my eye. “The World Has Gone Loopy and So Am I” is now on view within the Beatrice M. Haggerty Gallery on the College of Dallas (by way of March 21). Daniel Heyman is a printmaking professor at Rhode Island Faculty of Design who prints on distinctive handmade papers. “The works are part of his ongoing dialog with artwork and artists carried out by way of footage, that includes spontaneous sketches and layered drawings in mediums like sumi ink, graphite, and gouache.”
© 2025, Daniel Heyman. Picture by Amelia Ebent.
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(This is perhaps behind a NYTimes paywall). My good friend Mindell Dubansky received a beautiful assessment within the Instances about her Blook challenge, which is the results of a few years of analysis and accumulating. A brand new exhibition on the Middle for Ebook Arts in New York includes a vary of objects — transistor radios, lanterns, cigarette lighters and extra — designed to appear to be books.
“There’s a lot emotion in these objects,” mentioned Dubansky. “From those that made them and people who acquired them.” This trench lighter was created by an unknown maker circa 1914-17. Credit score…Graham Dickie/The New York Instances
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Darryl Bedford was not too long ago on my podcast (see beneath) and his clothes had been not too long ago on the runway at London Style Week.
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