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• 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 watchtrap 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