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• The robot carver: Assistant or master?
• The geometry of memory: Persian patterns and diasporic identity
• Timi Lantos ✿ Learning from clay in Japan
• The question of vegetarian craft
• Andrea Barker: Memory of a Shard 
• Steph Wallace ✿ Holding the Void
• Safe and sound: An exhibition of contemporary Taiwanese amulets in Munich
• Nelson Jewellery Week 2025: Society, history, story and strength
• Ben Lignel ✿ Seven steps to authenticity
• US makers react to tariffs: Global craft exchange is a net good
• Solidarity at hand: Support Vietnamese crafts
• Three body problems: New Iranian jewellery
• Studio Calyx Kolkata: Clay in community
• Jeong (정) – Introduction to Korean craft ✿ 27 May
• Chamak: A tale of embroidered fragments shining again
• The ancestral is in vogue: How do you market authenticity?
• Khneng embroidery: Weaving the past forward
• Master artisans of Yucatán: Hands, faces and spaces
• The Cottage Garden
• Sheikha Altaf ✿ The meaning of beauty and function in Sadu weaving
• Zhu Bingren ✿ Building a bronze mansion
• Queensland stories
• Stories from the MAP Academy
• Stoneware dreams of plastic memories
• A tribute to Susanne Wenger
• Craft is a right: The challenge of a growing screen divide
• Woori: A Festival of our weaving tradition
• Jiang Zhaojin’s denim landscape: The intersection of craft, cultural identity and philosophical reflections
• Serendipity Arts Festival: Re-viewing and re-thinking crafting methodologies
• We need a Council of Elrond for the crafts
• From My Dingo Soul to Your Hearts
• Omar Mansoor ✿ Meluhas
• My relationship with the earth
• A lost smile: The invisible shoemaker
• Notes from a Craftsman: Magical moments at hand
• Angeles Jacobi ✿ Unravelling home
• The year of the dandelion
• Residency
• Temple
• The Street
• Finding the One Tree: A day in the Whipstick forest
• OK Google, give us a hand: Craft and the future humanist renaissance
• The value of craft in fiction
• Murad Mammadov ✿ Jewels of the Caspian Sea
• The snake
• Art on a stem: Floral botanical collage decoupage
• Beyond the Gallery: 28 January 2025
• A cry from the heart: Disappearing crafts
• Investing in the care economy: QR codes on pashmina shawls
• What is the value of craft?
• On the border: Exploring land, identity, and connection through art jewellery
• Surabaya style in the Sunshine State 
• Dorothy Erickson: Jewellery inspired by light and land
• Kate Baker ✿ Difficult knowledge
• From coffee waste to Waztehaus: A sustainable initiative for women’s vegan leather shoes 
• Craft therapy? The future of craft as a service
• Afghan weaves from clay to wool
• Tunnizze Creation: Africa knits together
• Lee Ji Won: Ancient weaves now
• Vipoo gives Jooyun’s teapot a new life
• Ngozi Omeje ✿ For the love and joy of it
• Book review: Crafting Luxury
• Herstory: 20 years of ETWA – A journey of collaboration, culture, and connection
• Sahjeevan: A symbiotic association between makers and designers
• Welcome to Iran: 6 November 2024
• Carol Maberly ✿ An embroidered Tao Te Ching
• Melinda Capp ✿ Jewellery squared
• Kate Fitzharris ✿ The Good Egg
• Sahlah Davids: Amatie
• Saved by a glitch
• Syldyr: Astana’s first exhibition of conceptual jewellery
• Korean Maedeup: A culture of knots
• Iranian aesthetics: Monarchy, religion and modernism
• Michele Elliot: A handful of chillies
• Contact Zone: A symposium on post-humanism in Iranian material arts
• The ivory tower needs a bridge
• Leanne Wicks: A Knitted Bird Told Me
• Perdita Phillips ✿ Structural grotto
• Concurrencies: where the exact and the fragile converge 
• A day in the life of a drum maker
• We’re in it together: The making of Maree Clarke’s glass canoe
• Kampoeng launch in Surabaya
• Kampoeng ✿ Stories from Indonesia
• Piña weaving and climate change in Kalibo
• Leonie Oakes ✿ Slippage
• Farid Abu Shakra ✿ GROUND?
• The Lost Flock: A life among ancient sheep
• The uses and abuses of sloppy craft
• Zakiyaben and Adilbhai Khatri: Kindred explorers
• Vicki Mason ✿ Canopy
• Angie Faye Martin ✿ At home on Country
• Mirror maze
• Afsaneh Modiramani ✿ A nest in the city
• Trellis ✿ Jewellery on land
• Together with Montaigne’s Cat: Gyeonggi Ceramics Biennale 2024
• One step back, two steps forward: The key to South Korea’s success
• Falepipi he Mafola ✿ 30 years of a Niue collective
• Dacha ✿ Stories from Eastern Europe
• Chinese artists embrace artificial intelligence as a creative foil
• Marie Eklund ✿ Poetry in spoons
• The Hipster Economy: A conversation with Alessandro Gerosa
• Why we need to forge our own academies
• Otobong Nkanga ✿ Soap stacks of the wider world
• Sewing seeds: Stories of embroidery
• Steal This ✿ Melissa Cameron confesses to her role in a lawless jewellery gang
• Fiona Gavino ✿ Weave a deep breath
• The shed: Stories of wood
• Ten Thousand Suns spotlights the technologies of First Nations peoples through craft
• Tiago Ishiyama ✿ It’s all or nothing in the favela
• The recurring pleasures of simple
• Ancient calligraphy now in the city of Kairouan, Tunisia
• Misako Nakahira ✿ Waves of tsuzureori
• Birender Kumar Yadav ✿ Presencing the keepers of the kiln
• Sana Balai ✿ A champion of inclusivity for International Women’s Day
• Weaving Sumba’s history into the fabric of the world
• Gee’s Bend: Does it matter who made it?
• The thinker-maker in Iranian contemporary craft
• Library
• Breath of the Fire Dragon 稻草香火龍
• Aleisa Miksad ✿ Bacchic ceramics
• Efficacious Intimacy ✿ Learnings from the Jugaad Project
• Is “Make Stories, Not War” more than a cute catchphrase?
• Craft Communities talk on 19 February
• The Kintsugi Collection: The resilient beauty of Jaipur weaving
• Saya Yamagishi ✿ Talismanic chintz
• Yusra Tanveer ✿ Weaving forgetfulness
• The Bahari bag: Holding onto the craft wisdom of Itak Sein
• Barefoot garden
• Pam Hall ✿ The Encyclopedia of Local Knowledge
• Urmila Mohan on The Jugaad Project
• Skol ✿ The Nordic forest
• Money is everything, not: Can culture survive capitalism?
• Kokand: A whirlwind craft festival
• Sensorium recipe ✿ In praise of insects
• Heart of Parijat
• Esther Elia ✿ An Assyrian Prayer Bowl
• Jess Dare ✿ Handful of flowers
• Uber eats craft
• Launch of Garland ✿ To Touch
• Looms of Ladakh: Keeping with knowledge of shesrig alive
• Mai Nguyễn-Long ✿ Vomit Girl
• Dragon Scale Binding: The revival of an ancient Chinese book format
• Ground: Thinking and Feeling with the Earth
• Shop or gallery?
• A message from Umm el-Fahem Art Gallery
• Rose garden ✿ Follow your nose
• Self Medication: Korean Ceramic Art
• The Krolevets towel: A new focus on Urkainian weaving
• Roksana Makieva ✿ A vyshyvanka for the spirit of peace in wartime
• Annette Nykiel ✿ Slow-Making Locally
• Batik garden
• Lacquer garden
• The Mashrabiya Project: Life behind the screen
• Mongyudowon ✿ Stories from South Korea
• Lacquerware needs two legs to walk: The wisdom of master Gan Erke
• The future will be powered by humans
• The sacred garden: A photo essay of worship through flowers
• Sarah Khan ✿ Spoons as weapons of mass creation
• Marking lives without trace: Bamboo weaving in a Rohingya refugee camp
• A manifesto for craft in space design
• Kondo Weaving Mill: Industrial Japanese craftsmanship
• Lavina Baldota on curating Sutr Santati
• Pottery of Horezu: Where the rooster crows 
• Kalpataru ✿ Jharkhand’s Tree of Life by Sahil & Sarthak
• Festival of Linen in Haute-Normandie
• Who owns craft knowledge?
• Topeng Malangan: Batik behind the mask
• Strange tales from a Chinese studio: Geng Xue’s porcelain imaginary
• Fair Isle knitting: Scottish islands, craft, and my family
• Mahinga ✿ Stories from Te Moana nui e Kiwa
• Prita Tina Yeganeh ✿ The Sanctum of Qanāt
• What to make of invasive species: Cara Johnson’s jewellery practice on the land
• Oasis
• Keeping House
• Moon viewing platform
• Like the olive tree, Bethlehem craft persists through generations
• Vietnam revives the board game
• Biopolymer fibre in basketry: An interview with Paula Camiña about Co-Obradoiro Galego
• Love nest
• Ikuntji Style: In conversation at afternoon tea 
• When should knowledge be restricted? Cultural Intellectual Property Rights® for the Oma in Laos
• Brisbane Art and Design Festival 2023: A vessel for diversity of creative practice 
• David Ray ✿ Four Treasons
• The Magill commission: Ceramics to savour
• Beehive ✿ Stories of the insect world
• Rotunda ✿ Objects that give voice to our world
• The yurt: Stories from Central Asia
• Psychometry: Series of PaAo ancient casting bronze hand ornaments with AR
• Full circle: We must fight for hope
• Rosa Taikon: Jewellery as a medium of struggle
• Lara Salous ✿ Palestine at home
• Craft for health and well-being
• The Future at Hand: Reports on the role of crafts in our world today
• The role of craft in crisis
• Hand teaches hand: Craft education in Denmark
• Craft and the circular economy 
• “I feel as if I’ve dropped into a secret cave”: The power of clay in recent Indian fiction
• Puppet theatre
• Vanghoua Anthony Vue ✿ To adorn Hmong in new lands
• Zeegt naamal: A Mongolian heritage under threat
• The role of craft in local ecologies
• How the local becomes global
• Hmong spirits sojourn on their way back home
• Clay pit
• Bubu Ogisi ✿ Masks that reveal hidden spirits
• UYalezo – New Traditions
• Introduction: A taste of the world
• Tea house
• Please visit Iran: Life goes on
• Remembering Jasleen Dhamija: India’s custodian of crafts (1933-2023)
• Jane DuRand ✿ Walking through landscape, tile by tile
• Alice Potter ✿ You’re more than just fruit & veg
• Why Runs The Abhisarika
• Compost
• 1 square metre of linen: Life begins where the Internet ends
• The Shanghai Public Cultural Content Supply Platform: Distributing culture to the people / 通过公共文化服务平台
• The well ✿ Stories of natural dyes
• Jessica Murtagh ✿ Ancient Athens at the checkout
• The black gem of Ukraine: Forging fragility in Donetsk
• Works from the International Art Textile Biennale 2023
• Follow the algorithm: New journeys through the world of textiles
• Crafting “natural” conceptions in and of China, of its nationhood and its people   
• Gathul-gärri / Into the Mangroves 
• Welcome support for world knowledge-keepers: The Ministry of Indigenous Peoples in Brazil  
• Pushkar women balance life and work on ornate indonis
• Transforming the landscape into colour: India’s natural dyes
• Ruth Woods ✿ Finding Form with Fibre
• Paper trail
• Tafarrojgah ✿ The Persian garden
• Taste-makers: Tools for slow eating and drinking
• Nagme Zaeri ✿ An embellished life in Iran
• Luleå Protocols for Knowledge Exchange – 2022
• Patterns of Settlement: A kangaroo skin map of Sydney Cove
• Lucia Nieves ✿ You have blooms
• Reading for pleasure, pleasurable reading
• Jacqueline Rose ✿ Geometry at hand
• Bahareh Zaman ✿ Shouldering the world
• Turtle Island
• David Escalona ✿ Life under wraps
• Patrick Webb ✿ A generous coat of craft thinking
• Queering the Subversive Stitch: Sew very masculine!
• Simone Fraser ✿ Re-gendering ritual
• Sveta Dorosheva ✿ Two worlds, one brush
• Dias Prabu ✿ Re-imagining memories of past encounters
• The cypress tree ✿ Where paisley began
• Kevin Diallo ✿ Ode to Zouglou 
• Chiharu Shiota ✿ The Soul Trembles Ruptures Realities
• Neke Moa ✿ How to make deities for everyday use
• Latifa Zafar Attaii ✿ One Thousand Individuals
• Kelly Austin ✿ Suspended decompositions
• Animita ✿ Stories from South America
• Pippa Dyrlaga ✿ Precious pangolin
• Laurels
• Garlands
• Sherwani: The influence of British rule on elite Indian menswear
• The lost garden
• The Knot Garden
• The return path: Stories of a craft renaissance
• Issey Miyake: Pleating craft and technology together 
• Kate Harding ✿ Memories to keep you warm
• Billabong ✿ Stories from Australia
• Darkroom ✿ Stories of photographic craft
• Kolam ✿ Stories from the Tamil world
• Mandir मंदिर ✿ Stories from India
• Wattle Park
• Aqal ✿ Stories from Africa
• Lotus pond ✿ Stories from the Buddhist world
• Charbagh ✿ Stories from the Islamic world
• Ishigumi 石組 ✿ Japanese rock garden
• Peach Garden ✿ Stories from China
• Glasshouse
• Hydroponic ✿ Transplanting roots through migration
• Bren Luke ✿ Life at a distance
• From Aotearoa to Uzbekistan: New Zealand in the Zar Festival of Gold, Bukhara
• Craft Culture in Early Modern Japan: Learning by doing
• Tusif Ahmad ✿ A paper trail from heaven to earth
• Glenn Adamson ✿ Material Intelligence and the scientific turn
• How to join a Kooch migration today
• Views of Brisbane at hand
• The Sensorium Series
• Jesse Adams Stein: Do we still need to make things?
• The Grandfather Clock: A dark history tolls
• Suoyi: RuCai Lyu’s rain cape and its ongoing tradition of protection
• The Last Kai ✿ A Moana renaissance
• Avi Amesbury ✿ Our material home
• Nikki Main and Sally Blake ✿ Wood wide web
• Bombay, batik & biotechnics: Gender and nationhood in modernist textiles
• Know your weaver: The revival of Udupi sarees
• Garland is in the Little Red Book
• Sara Hedayat ✿ Shishe dermeh as rugged elegance
• Oh, will felting ever make it into Artforum?
• Katheryn Leopoldseder: Ode to restoration
• Paula Isola ✿ The words to wear it
• Masters of Craft: Five years later
• Devon Harvest jug ✿ An anonymous maker speaks
• Clémentine Deliss – The Metabolic Museum
• Vernacular Visions: The practice of everyday art
• Fold craft: Uncovering the Nivi sari
• Veronica Gritsenko ✿ A lacquer journey from Ukraine to Myanmar
• Genta HAYASHI ✿ Jūbako for the time of plum blossom
• Cherry blossom to wear
• Sharefolder Fantasy: Vase unbound
• Bappaditya Biswas ✿ A chintz conversation
• The year of the lotus
• Towards a Chamber of Crafts ✊
• Battle of the Rings / Ring Smackdown
• The Mingei Film Archive: Unique stories of craft on celluloid
• Pamela Leung’s Red Line Story 
• The year of the paper tiger 🐅
• Let a hundred craft histories bloom
• Waking up in Tuva
• Cherokee basket ecology
• Sophie Moran ✿ The batter bowl
• Teaching through windows: How to conduct an online craft workshop
• Nicolette Johnson ✿ Shimmering turquoise
• Yuko Kikuchi: Where to find Mingei in Japan today
• Mancapat: Heritage batik from today’s soil
• Manzanito ✿ A national hero of rural craft
• An examined life: Fairweather and China
• Pachanbhai ✿ A finely woven story of change
• Fresh and salt waters meet in black and white
• Iranian monuments at the wheel
• Craft – Radical or conservative? Lessons from French and Chinese history
• Pulp Friction: A paper trail from China
• Mata ni Pachedi: Sacred textiles come to the rescue
• Kan Doenthang: Lost wax to recover a disappearing world
• Julie Paterson ✿ Equanimity trees
• Monkey love: A Javanese romance
• Aricò’s Calabrian dragon
• Ofrendas ✿ Stories from Mexico
• Displacement: Crafts enterprises as empowerment for refugees and displaced people
• Plant Power Sisterhood ✿ Dancing a basket
• Reclaim the void: Weaving country whole
• Tineke Van der Eecken ✿ In the flow
• Does the wanting monster whisper to you?
• Jin ah Jo ✿ A pipeline to Buddha 🇰🇷
• A Tjanpi world: Filled up with stories from the land
• A Kolam for Washington DC
• Xiaoxi ✿ The craft prince of China
• New Spring, Old Gods: Adornment for the people of the bear
• Ozioma Onuzulike ✿ Woven in clay
• Project Dor ✿ Care to wear
• 25 Million Stitches: Threading the misplaced multitude
• The spirit of Japanese mingei in Brazil
• Tangimoe Clay ✿ Crafting the world on a string
• Mid-Autumn Festival: A time to make many blessings under the same moon
• Lockdown has revealed the enduring crafts of Morocco
• Joachim Froese ✿ The Sunshine of Yesterday 
• Philomena Yeatman ✿ Hairy Men and Little People
• Anuradha Chauhan: A secret of the Himalayas
• Gabbee Stolp ✿ Memories in flux
• Tessa Aroha Harris ✿ Kōrimurimuri dreams
• Govindbhai ✿ Keri classic
• Miquel Barceló ✿ Metamorphosis
• Mel Douglas ✿ Latitude
• Vicki Mason ✿ Wattle it be?
• Wang Chaohui ✿ The story behind family history books and wooden movable type
• Frances Stachl ✿ Cheer at hand in COVID times
• Alchemy in Japanese traditional craft: The transformation of light in Tamahagane forging and polishing
• Daniel Thomas ✿ Recent Past: Writing Australian Art
• “We are a country whose lungs are on fire” ✿ Mourning the lost trees of Turkey
• Phayao a Porter: A jacket from Jakkai to Vipoo
• Copihue ✿ Chrysanthemum ✿ Frangipani ✿ Marigold ✿ Jasmine
• Song brocade: The lost past and the promising future in Chinese crafts
• Lissy Cole ✿ The many faces of Te Ao Māori
• Punk Rocks ✿ The Hope Pebble
• Sally Blake ✿ Holding hope
• Tamihana Katene ✿ taonga puoro
• A diamond in the rough: Developing a discourse on contemporary African jewellery 
• Confluence: Visualising Mumbai’s waters
• Hamza ✿ Enter the circle
• Kaamya Sharma poses a challenging question
• Tareq Qaddumi ✿ Muqla’a slingshot
• Anying CHEN: Craft revivals in today’s China
• Mian Wei ✿ From temple roof to table top
• The Firebird Rises: Story-making
• Pat Dale ✿ Australian Plants & Fibres as Used by First Nations People
• Stevei Houkamau ✿ Kahu for Matariki
• Patricia Flanagan: Tracing the gestures of craft
• Judy Lorraine ✿ Drawnoutness and the music of clay
• The Body Layer; Semblance and Self
• Zahra Mosheni ✿ The needle is my fellow worker
• Ms Kieu gives French brands a hand in Vietnam
• Netsuke today
• Zhu Ohmu ✿ 3D-printed by hand
• Ceramix: Dialogues in clay
• Sandra Bowkett ✿ Twig vessels
• Why you can’t find Garland on Instagram right now
• Kimiagar wire jewellery
• An appeal to help textile communities devastated by Cyclone Seroja
• Benn Gritt ✿ Beauty by hand
• Mary Curtis ✿ The wood between our fingers slows us down
• Kanta Kadse ✿ Khajur ki pattiyo
• It began with the daughter-in-law ✿ The story of Bhujodi weavers on 29 May
• fluxed earth ✿ Garden forage vases
• Maryam Mohamadi ✿ Mageli
• The Art of Masks
• Mark Eliott ✿ Essence of Cloud
• Kangaroo scouse 
• Harry Nankin ✿ A starling falls to earth
• Anna Battista, the woman behind Irenebination
• Dr Ghada Hijjawi-Qaddumi: An enduring legacy
• Jane McKenzie ✿ Play of light
• Atelier, art school, university: How to teach creativity in the twenty-first century
• Ezra Shales: The Shape of Craft
• Test
• Sanaz Nataj ✿ Treasures from Qeshm and Khorashad
• Iranian Nowruz: Guiding the spirits home
• Thinker maker: Tyson Yunkaporta on 31 March
• Madhvi Subrahmanian ✿ Pandemic Pills
• Glenda Nicholls ✿ Weaving storylines
• The role of universities in the success of Korean craft
• Toshizō Hirose ✿ The sentō stamp today
• Finding your feet: A communal tapestry in full bloom
• Nicole Ellis ✿ Fabrications 
• Circular knowledge: How to meet on the same page
• Azadeh Yasaman ✿ A disorderly beauty
• Linda Butcher ✿ Inside the tent in Egypt
• Atefe Sadat Mirsane ✿ Marquetry to wear
• One Village One Product: A global platform for local craft
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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