Threads

To complement the seasonal issue of Garland every three months, enjoy these ‘threads’ that appear every day or so.

Why we need to forge our own academies - Universities have benefitted the crafts significantly, but we can't rely just on them to define our field.

Otobong Nkanga ✿ Soap stacks of the wider world - Jessica Hemmings reviews Otobongo Nkanga's exhibition of soap with the help of a novel by Teju Cole.

Sewing seeds: Stories of embroidery - Explore the craft that threads stories into the cloths that adorn our world.

Steal This ✿ Melissa Cameron confesses to her role in a lawless jewellery gang - Melissa Cameron tells the story behind Melbourne's radical street jewellery scene of the 2000s.

Fiona Gavino ✿ Weave a deep breath - Fiona Gavino is our April laurel for a work that monumentalises basket-making as an expression of meditation.

The shed: Stories of wood - Explore stories about the transformation of trees into objects of tactile beauty.

Ten Thousand Suns spotlights the technologies of First Nations peoples through craft - Pamela See reflects on the craft works in the 24th Sydney Biennale.

Tiago Ishiyama ✿ It’s all or nothing in the favela - Paul Sepaniak pays tribute to his friend, an inspiring Brazilian street artist of Japanese ancestry

The recurring pleasures of simple - In a dark space, redolent of wax, Sara Thorn discovers a minimal beauty.

Ancient calligraphy now in the city of Kairouan, Tunisia - Leila Ben-Gacem finds a calligraphic group today in Kairouan that is inspired by the city's classic eleventh-century work, "Quran of the Nurse".