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Gray Metal – jewelry cast from beach plastic

LB — Sun, 06 Jan 2019 23:21:23 +0000

Well before the most recent wave of coverage of the crisis of plastic accumulating in our oceans, jeweler and artist Jesse Gray of Gray Metal started picking up beach plastic on Vancouver Island and casting some of it into jewelry.

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Fur lifejacket, for fabulous shipwrecks

LB — Mon, 18 Jan 2016 23:42:29 +0000

I made this fur lifejacket partly in homage to Meret Oppenheim, one of the founders of surrealism and most famous for her “Object in Fur,” a fur teacup and spoon. Oppenheim is yet another woman artist who did not receive the credit or status she was due.

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Endangered 5000 year old ancient practice of making silk made from mollusc slime

LB — Fri, 15 Jan 2016 19:40:17 +0000

“Haste doesn’t live here,” says one sign on the door. Another inside says “Nothing in this room is for sale.” An Italian woman named Chiara Vigo is the last living master of the ancient textile tradition of spinning “baysuss” or silk produced from the fibres exuded by a giant mediterranean mollusc.

More colonial craft

LB — Fri, 26 Jun 2015 01:49:24 +0000

Once you start seeing something, it’s suddenly everywhere (and it doesn’t help that people keep sending me examples). After noticing that we seem culturally obsessed with our colonial settlement of this city/province/country/continent right now, and that this pioneer DIY craft style has spread as far afield as Brisbane and Berlin, based on what people have written me, I feel compelled to keep collecting it.

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Settler & pioneer “heritage hipster” styles in the age of Idle No More, Chinatown gentrification, &c.

LB — Wed, 15 Oct 2014 02:30:30 +0000

Men in British Columbia, 1859, one in a newly discovered collection of early photographs of white settlers and First Nations in B.C. Via Vancouver Sun © Royal British Columbia Museum, reprinted with permission

An abridged version of this essay has been published in the May/June 2015 issue of Briarpatch Magazine

I am probably as bored of casual hipster-slagging as you are.

Navajo chief’s blanket ends up on Antiques Road Show (2004)

LB — Fri, 23 May 2014 18:52:47 +0000

This is for those who haven’t seen this decade-old segment which for some reason has been making the social media rounds again.

It is so nice to see a truly beautiful textile get this sort of attention (and from men too, which speaking as a textiles person rarely happens in North America, in contrast with other parts of the world).

Arhuaca mochila bags of Colombia

LB — Mon, 14 Apr 2014 03:32:16 +0000

I first noticed these cylindrical handwoven bags on a couple of delegates at the UN World Urban Forum in Medellín, Colombia. They looked unusually sturdy, very finely handwoven in wool, and all had unique and beautiful geometric patterns.

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Protected: Interpretation of Enzo Mari’s Sedia Chair by Russell Baker, Bombast Furniture

LB — Wed, 27 Nov 2013 17:07:31 +0000

There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.

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Protected: Enzo Mari’s classic 1970s chair modified by artists and designers – Presentation House Gallery auction

LB — Fri, 15 Nov 2013 20:29:00 +0000

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Rock concert

LB — Sat, 18 May 2013 16:35:39 +0000

You may have had to be there. In the 70s.

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