All loop posts
- One Village One Product: A global platform for local craft (17 Feb)
- Jay Thakkar ✿ The fourth wave in craft education
- Sara Lindsay ✿ Searching for cinnamon
- Rajan Vankar ✿ A lifelong love for the loom
- Taller Grulla ✿ The forest at hand
- Tiao David Nithakhong Somsanith: The relevance of royal craft today (20 January 2021)
- What will be the new flower?
- Sitaben ✿ A narrative of courage
- Erroll Pires ✿ The master of ply-split braiding
- iThongo: Messages from the ancestors
- Futaba ✿ Living with a broken beauty
- Sophie Carnell ✿ Gnat orchid
- The Heart of the Necklace: A reverse Sleeping Beauty story – 20 December
- No more under the radar: On craft disciplines in universities
- Kumarisari ✿ Buy forward fashion
- Eddy Carroll ✿ A marigold journey
- Navigating craft in Moana Oceania: Crafting Aotearoa to Tok Stori Tuesdays
- Greening Delhi: An interview with Ranjit Sabikhi
- Isolation jewels: A well-made life
- Garland 2.0 ✿ Building a new garden of stories
- The Kawashima Textile School ✿ Ancient kasuri is alive in Japan
- Marasim: Two films that connect craft with cinema and literature
- Regalos para los ausentes
- Kastellorizian Jewellery: A Dispersed Archive of a Past Culture
- What brought Hermie Cornelisse back to pottery
- The Crafts and Rituals of Scent in Arabia ✿ 18 November
- James Tylor ✿ Kaurna tool kit
- Canberra cares: The craft and design of resilience
- Masks: Metamorphosis of Modern Identity at the Museo Carmen Thyssen in Málaga, Spain
- Kashmiriyat: Craft out of conflict
- Dawn Beasley ✿ On a slow boat to Jingdezhen
- Mary Elizabeth Baron ✿ Passementing the present
- Makers making change: Sydney Craft Week 2020
- Asif Shaikh and Aziz Murtazaev ✿ A dialogue of print and stitch
- Aarti Kawlra: Exploring Craft as a Decolonial Option – 21 October
- Shake it up!
- The Princess & the Bael Fruit ✿ A unique encounter with Warli art on 24 October
- Chikankari: The gift of health
- OVOP Senegal success stories: Jute bag from Espace Beauté Yagora
- Laila Al Hamad ✿ The craft of smell
- Kasih Project ✿ Delivered with love, Indonesia style
- Kasia Tons ✿ After
- A village delivered to your home: Report from the Selvedge World Fair
- Maryann Sebasio ✿ Warup drum from Erub island
- Gnawa Guembri: Resonance of a lost past
- Remembering Yellow Cave can help us survive a pandemic
- Balafon: wood-tongue-talk
- In lockdown, a Bulgarian recreates the past
- Mbira and kalimba ✿ Anatomy of the “thumb piano”
- Pashmina: A perennial luxury
- Peta Kruger ✿ Weaving beauty out of waste
- Roseanne Bartley ✿ be in touch
- Wonderpants ✿ What our future might hold
- Brave effigies employed in Laos in the fight against Covid-19
- Ulo ✿ Putting an African face to lockdown
- Inspired by the peoli ✿ Textiles that emerge between the river and the forest
- Fashion from silent Indian cinema: The blossom of the cobbler’s flower
- Weaving your way through COVID – Bali style
- Sreenivasulu ✿ A pen-ultimate world
- The Gift of Time: Call for works
- Ogene & Oja ✿ Talking instruments of a playful Igbo crew
- Enkarewa: The Maasai gift of gifts
- Art for life ✿ The hanging garlands of Pompeii according to Dylan Rogers
- The Mongolian snuff bottle pouch: Embracing aromatic culture
- Horst Kiechle ✿ Digital weaving inspired by a Thai basket
- Kimono o’clock: The watchstrap artist
- The precious “ta leec” backpack from Co Tu village
- Masahiro Sasaki ✿ Glass comes first
- uhadi & umruhbe ✿ a resonant Xhosa tradition
- Canadian First Nations celebrate the longest day with a Social Distance Pow Wow
- Ā Mua ✿ Crafting Aotearoa 2.0
- Maikel Kuijpers ✿ The future is material
- Terracotta at hand: The cool water bottle
- How dolphins guided me to rescue a suicidal girl…
- Shohre Fakhrejanali ✿ Chadorshab waist wrap
- Fleeting moments: Responses to Transference and Common Thread
- COVID: An opportunity for the handicraft sector in the long run?
- Rites to Writing ✿ Ishan Khosla links craft and graphic design
- Catherine O’Leary ✿ Felt Forward
- Mel Young ✿ Mapping the tideline
- Hand Medal Project: Taking care of caregivers
- Taipei Biennial 2020 ✿ Aruwai Kaumakan
- Make the World Again: Twenty Australian textile artists
- The rise of “craftship”: The Organization of Craft Work: Identities, Meanings, and Materiality
- Annette Fitton ✿ A mob of laced roos
- Iran ✿ Poetry in limbo
- Paola Moreno ✿ Healing plus
- Following the Lacquer God
- Rahul Kumar ✿ Ceramic art and science
- Despite Lei Day cancellations, the spirit of aloha lives on
- Knowledge work in service of the crafts: Three principles
- India Craft Week live 1-3 May
- When there’s nowhere left to turn: The need to support Indian village crafts
- David Bielander ✿ Poking fun in all seriousness
- The red candle in China’s “craft of love”
- Chandan Bose ✿ The rich social world of patam art in Telangana
- Our futures: Let’s not waste a crisis!
- Overallness: Ian Fairweather’s life in letters
- Wu Wei: “Nothing doing” is the future of Chinese papercutting
- Holding hands: Love in a time of social distancing
- Jodhaa Akbar: A love story tailor-made for today
- Seikatsu Kogei: The Japanese carpe diem of the arts
- Shahpura School of Phad Painting ✿ Coronavirus advice
- Spring will come 🌸 Planning for a post-coronavirus future
- Life & Death ✿ An exhibition that designs its own demise
- Bakhiya: The beauty of the imperfect
- The Political-Poetic Journey of Two Métis/Cree Artists: Jesse Campbell and Michelle Poirier Brown
- The power of wedding adornments
- Adil Writer ✿ Clay dreams of love
- A post-digital threat out of the labyrinth: Christus Nobrega review
- Zetta Kanta ✿ Slow art with rescue fleece
- Fishing for future love in Laos
- Seikatsu Kogei: Standard-issue craft
- Promising messages in bottles from Canberra
- Finding Mahtab and starting a new life
- Christus Nóbrega ✿ Remaking the past with lace
- Bridget Kennedy ✿ A fragile beauty between the ashes
- The Kyrgyz yurt: Let the hearth not go out
- The craft wisdom of Kutch weaving
- Namad rugs in Turkmen-Sahara
- Makar Sakranti: Festivals of gratitude across India
- Review of A Cultural Economic Analysis of Craft
- How we design objects
- Nikolina Brown ✿ Pleasure flesh
- Mino-momoyama ware
- TikTok: A new platform for promoting crafts in China
- Japan black: Setoguro ware ceramics
- Hanoia ✿ Vietnamese history in lacquer
- A Stitch in Time
- Philip Faulks ✿ Greek chorus 📽️
- Yuri KEZUKA ✿ Our world in a clay mirror
- The world in a yurt
- Judy Nolan ✿ A knitted revenge on wordiness
- Harry T. Morris ✿ The spirit of fuzei in furniture
- Eureka! Ballarat is a new UNESCO Creative City for Craft and Folk Art
- Helen Ganalmirriwuy ✿ The magnificent gunga mat
- Jumaadi ✿ You’re invited to a snakes’ wedding
- Kamunez ✿ How the kiekie girdles Moana
- Ancient again in China: Chengdu heritage festival draws huge crowds
- A world in cork: How China refined the Xmas card
- Nikau Hindin ✿ A star compass that makes history
- Deepawali: A row of lights around the world
- Democracy by hand in Chile
- Jon Goulder ✿ Furniture with a backstory
- Gunybi Ganambarr ✿ Creative industrial
- Polina Matveeva ✿ The girl with a kitten (after da Vinci)
- Art Design Architecture: Jam Factory’s epic series of touring exhibitions
- Mongyudowon: South Korea’s craft utopia
- Ma Luocheng ✿ The craft of “impeachment”
- Phad painting: On the 150th anniversary of Gandhi’s birthday
- Kyoko Hashimoto ✿ the Musubi necklace
- Forum: To meet the makers in distant lands
- Sydney Craft Week 2019 ✿ Learning to play & playing to learn
- Nicole Robins ✿ It’s all in the loop
- Visionaries: A collection of Canberra talent
- Paula do Prado ✿ El Grito
- Liziqi ✿ China’s craft princess
- Central Asia awakes! The Festival of Handcrafters, Kokand, Uzbekistan
- Black bamboo furniture from Mer inspired by dance masks
- Zoë Veness ✿ Wayfaring
- Ceramics for the Autumn Takayama Festival (Hachiman Matsuri)
- Luo Wanxing ✿ A life’s hard labour for sweet reward
- Melissa Cameron ✿ Jewellery at our feet
- Al Sadu ✿ A craft tradition goes solar
- Mikio Toki ✿ Edo kites keep hope afloat
- Rough translation: The language of materials in three exhibitions
- Rong Design Library ✿ Deconstructing craft for design
- Philip Noakes ✿ Silver from the West
- Beijing Shadow Show Troupe combats “electric shadows”
- Kukuli Velarde ✿ A mi vida
- Lecture: Garland at University of Santiago – August 14
- Khushbu Mathur ✿ Sowing seeds of friendship between sister and brother
- Maggie Baxter ✿ Peeling walls and tattered ledgers
- Holly Grace ✿ The Shangri-La of the Jagungal Wilderness
- Annika Ekdahl ✿ From still to slow life
- Becoming blind to climate change: An age-old Japanese solution
- Jarred Wright ✿ Blowing up science
- Tangchang cloth shoes in Sichuan
- Jewellery stories
- Kinder, Küche, Kirche ✿ New mementos of the Barossa
- Rowena Strain ✿ Broome, the centre of the world
- Susie Vickery ✿ Embroidery portraits
- China’s craft revival: The cultural shift
- Lynda Draper ✿ 2019 Sidney Myer Fund Australian Ceramic Award
- NOT 不 ✿ TV screen Buddha
- He stood up! ✿ Winds of change at the Ancient Now symposium
- The shape of YOI よい: A drunken evening of Japanese ceramics
- Take Time ✿ A momentary exhibition of tapestries
- Sairi Yoshizawa ✿ The colours of eucalyptus
- Jenna Lee ✿ Folds of memory
- Catriona Pollard ✿ A basketmaker’s holiday
- Chelsea Lemon ✿ Marquetry in its place
- Please give up your seat for local design
- Shilp Shakti: A legacy midst crisis & opportunity
- Sera Waters ✿ Dazzleland
- Circling Back ✿ New work by Harriet Goodall
- One Island One Product?
- Mehrnoosh Ganji ✿ Soul Star Pendant 📽️
- Julie Ryder ✿ Hidden Sex
- Saeed Arzegan ✿ Love whisper
- Emily Beckley ✿ A romantic side of the Torres Strait
- We make this city: #acraftedcity
- Objects for the morning ritual
- The droop lamp ✿ Adam Markowitz & Apple Huang
- Claylines: Berder, Gaba, Urrknga and Wantja
- Canberra’s birds in hand
- Punu ✿ Living wood
- Sacred Places: Images of roadside shrines by Guy Vinciguerra
- Garland in Vietnam
- We need a “Great Addition Theory”: A response to Christchurch
- Manami Aoki ✿ Kushi-ireru-ki (hair of wood)
- Ancient Now – Creative dialogues with contemporary China: 22 June 2019
- Arigato Japan
- Sandra Alfoldy ✿ Global Peace Through Craft: The Formation of the World Crafts Council
- A tactile collaboration from Brazil ✿ Ernesto Neto and Ibã Sales
- 余韻 (yo-in) / afterglow – Japanese ceramics in Melbourne
- Toru Kuwakawa ✿ String theory
- Shlomit Bauman & Abed ElJaabari ✿ The earth we share
- Baskets for lemurs ✿ An epic challenge
- Reza Safavi ✿ from Conference of the Birds
- Kuniji Tsubaki ✿ Hinraku, c’est bon!
- Wanda Gillespie ✿ Abacus
- The limits of KonMari ✿ Fewer, better, older things
- Let the objects speak! Impressions of CRAFTIVISM
- Sydney to Shigaraki and back again ✿ Merran Esson
- Male: The act of flowers
- Baskets for spider monkeys ✿ Wendy Golden
- Mike Nicholls ✿ Finds a bird in the tree 📽️
- Tracing fragments ✿ Mosaic Tile Museum
- Art for whales ✿ A driftwood tribute from Golden Bay
- Andile Dyalvane ✿ uTyityilizi
- Do you know what this textile from Nagaland is?
- “Ea” the goddess of the goldsmiths (jewellers) in Mesopotamia
- Generational transfer ✿ Helen Aitken-Kuhnen and Mio Kuhnen
- Jane Sawyer ✿ Character, signature and breath 📽️
- Marigold ✿ Compendium Two now released
- What we can learn from Zapotec culture
- Liliana Ojeda ✿ November laurel
- Manuela López-Mateos ✿ Como es tu enagua y tu huipil?
- Natalia Toledo ✿ My skin bursts with the flowers etched upon my dress
- My own private mosque ✿ Clay activation by Varuni Kanagasundaram
- Cultural Attaché ✿ voluntary position
- Made for Parade
- Why do Koreans use metal chopsticks?
- Acrylic adventures in Kazakhstan by Martina Dempf
- Making memory ✿ The Huldremose woman today
- Sahaj ✿ The Vernacular Furniture of Gujarat book
- Glenn Adamson ✿ The need for material intelligence
- Tsukumogami ✿ Call for works in Garland #13 online exhibition
- Margaret Grafton ✿ Weaving power
- Jos Mitchell ✿ Entwined
- The enduring appeal of k-craft
- The People’s Library is now open
- Josh Muir inspired by Oaxaca
- Namako constructs a Japanese sense of place in Canberra
- When do stories become designs?
- Glimpses of the first Indian Ceramics Triennale
- Bin Dixon Ward ✿ Adding digital to the jeweller’s bench
- Yhonnie Scarce ✿ Colonisation in black and white
- Greybilly ✿ Opal for the anthropocene
- Khadim Ali: Australian fauna made in praise
- Anxi: A city of rattan and iron
- Divining a new life: Antipodean Encounters in Perth
- Anne Jillett ✿ “Sitting on a milk crate each week…”
- 4,000-year-old string discovered in Egypt
- Crafting a ceramic habitat for a handfish
- Jenuarrie – My story
- Alterfact builds their own 3D printer for ceramics
- Will your country be part of the world’s biggest craft biennale?
- Drawing Out the Gold – A Crown of Alfalfa by Katheryn Leopoldseder
- Chiaroscuro at the bench: Watch Vicki Mason make a threaded brooch 📽️
- China welcomes the craft world
- Niloufar Mirshahidi & Behnaz Barabarian: A delicate Persian love story to fit your finger
- Judith-Rose Thomas tunapri journeys through painting
- What the Thai cave rescue tells us about “Mai pen rai”
- Meredith Turnbull: Closer
- Emma Davies weaves a world from twine and bone 📽️
- Expanded lace: Lindy de Wijn at Bundoora Homestead
- Coco and the Disneyfication of craft
- Calling all scholars: We now have Garland Journal
- Rirkrit Tiravanija materialises in Singapore
- Andrei Davidoff – The Golden Calf
- Persian Renaissance continues…
- What object will we carry through the streets in 2168?
- Filming Mehrnoosh Ganji’s magnificent new work 📽️
- Garland Hangout across the Indian Ocean
- Mark Newbound: Filming craft alchemy 📽️
- Midori Tsukada’s oceanic glass
- Helen Wyatt interviews Elizabeth Shaw about Recycled Narratives
- Nigel Hewitt’s Recinder: Drawing in ash
- How to make a life out of lei-making: Lauren Shearer
- Design and Eastern Arab Countries – call for papers
- Behnaz Barabarian: Love in the Qajar period
- Chinese craft whispers
- How Japan invented the “craftie”
- Review of Use: Queensland contemporary jewellery, by Vivien Bedwell
- Hermès takes its message down South
- Garland #10 launch at Walyalup, Fremantle on 28 March 2018
- Going soft in Shepparton: Democracy at play
- Warp & Weft – a selection of textile-ish NZ artists
- Where can I read Garland in print?
- Beyond the ethnographic turn: rethinking art and anthropology in Florianópolis, Brazil
- Japan matters in Sydney: An exhibition of material design
- What is cræft?
- Love Thy Labour, by Kay Abude
- Made of Holes: A monumental sculpture by Lucy Irvine
- Recent calligraphic art by Reza Safavi and Zahra Tondkar
- Muestra Artesanía, Santiago, December 2017
- Yuka Oyama: Helpers – Changing homes 🎞️
- Ishoken (Tajimi City Pottery Design and Technical Center)
- Jess Dare’s eternal bloom: Sydney’s Martin Place memorial
- James Tylor: Te Moana Nui: Navigating time and space
- Films from Shahrzad Creative Digital Storytelling Center in Iran
- Katna’s Kantha: Stitching a future
- How much has your year been worth? Bridget Kennedy exhibition
- Green Touch: Asia Eco Craft Design Exhibition
- How to Make a Necklace from a Chair – Sarah Read
- Cutting knowledge at Harvard
- One brooch, one ring: Beijing International Jewellery Art Exhibition by Jun Xie
- Stephen Bowers on “The Waratah in Applied Art and in Literature”
- The Philosophy Pop-Up Shop
- Xocolatlummm: Wearable chocolate from Colombia
- Garland ✿ Auckland: 9 December 2017
- Garland ✿ Ōtautahi Christchurch: 7-8 December 2017
- The mysterious desert in new Persian jewellery
- Scenes from the Americas Crafts Festival in Cuenca
- Turkey Red on India Street
- The Peoples Library, 2018-18
- Balla-Wein Bloomtime by Jenny Crompton
- Meet the Neighbours: Creative dialogue with Indonesia
- Hand-Painted signs in Vietnam
- Julie Blyfield and Kirsten Coelho at Gallery Funaki
- Galeecha: Cultural Textiles Design
- Korean Craft Trend Fair – 7-10 December
- In font we trust – Bangalore Mirror
- a Bit na Ta at Bunjilaka until 4 February
- Rosslynd Piggott’s glass in Venice until 3 December
- Jenny Crompton at Koorie Heritage Trust until 26 November
- Our first Garland compendium available now: Jasmine
- Bali launch of Rame Rame – 17 October
- New space for objects in Sydney: HAKK by Gunjan Aylawadi
- The Persian House
- Sydney – A City on the Make
- Southern Knowledge Symposium: Valuing Wisdom and Know-how from beyond the West
- String Figure Workshop – 2 October
- Moana issue #9 – December 2017
- What’s love got to do with it?
- Forum: Imagine postcapitalism
- Should we pay for art?
- Western Australia issue – March 2018
- Rame rame! A call for friendworks
- Lesley Uren’s Celtic Dogs (2016)
- Love and money, now available
- Winners of the 9th Gyeonggi International Ceramic Biennale 2017
- What Daniel Blake won’t sell
- For love or money? – A call for works
- Narrative design – Learnings from India
- Garland #6 – Where’s your village?
- Love or Money? A maker discussion about models for postcapitalist creativity
- Launch of Thai issue in Melbourne
- A helping hand for Aasha Ram
- New Homes for Old Stories – Symposium/workshop in Mumbai, 5 February
- My Village Makes…
- Issue #5 – @India
- A hundred thousand tulips
- Launch of Garland #5 – Trading Tales in India
- The 4th Jakarta Contemporary Ceramics Biennale: “Ways Of Clay : Perspectives toward the future”
- Garland in a Trumped-up world
- PayPal blocks Melbourne event
- Persian soirée – 20 November 2pm
- Trading tales – call for works
- Garland #4 “The Persian Prospect” is out now
- The next Taj Mahal?
- Survey – where would you like to go?
- Korean ceramics in France, by Hyeyoung Cho
- Women animate Iran
- Lei in contemporary Pacific cultural practice, by Simone LeAmon
- The Persian Prospect – A panel discussion about the future of Iranian art in the world
- Embellish – call for works
- The fragrant myth of Parijat
- The laughter of pomegranates
- Garland #3 “With Nature” now out
- The Persian Prospect
- Piecing together an ancient ceramic past, by Maggie Moy
- Everyone-everyday – Rodney Glick in Bali
- Zambia, I presume by Auditor Chiyonkoma
- Julie Walker – We used to come down by the river
- Crafts in Interior Architecture: India, 1990 Onwards, by Rishav Jain
- Nature craft – call for works
- Muslin. Our Story – Saiful Islam
- Craft Forward to the Village – Developing Crafts in Burma & South-East Asia by Emi Weir
- Kazuri , a centre for bead trade in East Africa, by Martina Dempf
- A new garland for Fiji
- Hangout with Gopika Nath
- A map for the embroidered garden
- Rethinking scale: Craft traditions in the contemporary market – by Judy Frater
- Janina Green’s Still Life with Klytie Pate
- Garland #2 has arrived – take your time
- Second Home by Camila Marambio
- Crafting Gujarati Tradition into the Future by Hannah Robertson
- Craft ethics: Finding a moral compass in a harsh terrain, by Ashoke Chatterjee
- Launch of Garland #2
- Happy Vasant Panchami
- Love me and my batik
- Happy Chinese New Year to everyone
- Illuminating Julie Ewington’s essay
- Eclipsing tradition: China’s Chen Qiulin on art and rapid urbanisation
- Hanji – before and after Korea by Jan Coveney
- Indian fashion for the Aussie sadhu
- In the Future, They Ate From the Finest Porcelain
- Second Home – room available
- Sailing past the wreckage
- Gideon Haig launches the first issue of Garland
- Garland is launched