KYOTO







By the way, I had a nice surprise this morning at hui hui.

I have secretly been a fan of their clothing line, so I'm very flattered.

Thanks!

MOUNTAIN, 'IT', VELVET JUNGLE


1. Ingegerd Torhamn, 1930
2. Karna Asker 1928
both: heavy, knotted short-pile carpets

Agneta Flock stuffed velvet forms to produce liana and jungles
in saturated and heavy colours towards the end of the sixties.
She also worked at that time with reclining and 'growing' forms in a lesser
format that formed part of organic plant shapes. The jungles seemed to divide the
room as they were hung from the ceiling.

Playful and unconventional textile art & sculpture
1. Lizzie Olsson-arle, 1974, Appliqué
2. Aganeta Goes, 1974, Appliqué
3. Marie Louise de Geerbergenstrahle. Fish balls in lobster sauce, 1968, appliqué with stuffing
4. Margareta Hallek, Varied Wrinkles, 1968, Variable seam-embroidery with elastic
5. Inga Brand, 1975, Woven forms
All from Svensk textilkonst

So often people are working hard at the wrong thing.
Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard.
working hard is overrated

Funny faces and creatures very well composed,
found in 'Ancient Peruvian textile design in modern stitchery'

LITTLE PEOPLE


Promise this is the last time you'll be seeing these here.
I'm beginning to enjoy expressing my ideas in 3D lately.
In case you are curious to see a bit more,

head over my other work-in-progress blog.

which project has given you the most satisfaction?
every project has its own satisfaction, and reflection.
and we need both to move to the next step.

interview from sanaa

SUNKEN BOATS?

Working on stage design. More later.

TEXTILWERKEN





Found this fantastic german craft book in a library.

Full of exciting images that i dont know which ones to choose for this post.

Sadly my german is hopeless to understand the text

although I studied it for some time..

I should have been more serious in school.
(The book is called Textilwerken grundlagen und lehrwege.)

+Go read this heartwarming short story.

++Makoto Kagashima's awesome.

SAD FLOWER




I'm in love with Lauri Faggioni's creatures.
I also like the music video she did for devendra banhart's 'a ribbon'.

A great video for a great song.

BAUHAUS TEXTILES






Some of my favorites from bauhaus textiles.(the book)

Experimenting based on a story of a fox and a crow.

Here is a collage I did some time ago and now,

I'm trying to re-create a scene from the story in 3 dimensional form.

I'm actually enjoying it!

I'm supposed to be doing something else but I'm browsing utrecht (a bookshop in Tokyo)'s webshop again.
On the way, I (re-)discovered some images of beautiful spoon collection;
1. Jasper Morrison:: A book of spoons

2.3.4. Some spread from Hermann Junger's book
( would love to own this!)

P.S. himaa's bag on sale!

Above are Katharina Trudzinski's sculpture/paintings (via drawing diary)
I love what she does. Those geometric shapes and colours in her work are amazing.

I'm in awe.

v

//Reading Akira Minagawa's book

Just a little note:
There is an exhibition of Mina perhonen

starting from 24/october in Tilburg, Holland.

A must see if you are around.

More info in English translated version here

^

Wow Hannah Waldron's work is awesome.