Tag: textile art
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First solo exhibition

Not sure if it is because I’m getting older, but the weather is getting to me of late. Then again, with climate change the weather is anyway proving to be challenging and getting worse by the year. At our place the winters are getting wetter, not because of more rain (I don’t think, or is…
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Quilt week #2

For as long as I can remember I’ve been making patchwork blankets for myself, family and friends. It consisted mostly of pieces of off-cut fabric, patterned in blocks or lines, machine stitched together and sown onto a backing, usually with an old worn out blanket sandwiched between the two outer layers, and finished off around…
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wiwi – active innovation

My mum always says if only she could see the size of the pile of all the clothes she has made throughout her life, she wonders how big that mountain would be. An interesting thought. I’ve made my share of clothes, but I don’t think my pile would be a hundredth the size of my…