Sentences with phrase «weavers at»

In 2013, South African artist Cameron Platter collaborated with weavers at ELC Art and Craft Center Rorke's Drift, a storied art hub in rural KwaZulu - Natal province, on wool tapestries.

This celebration of female weavers at Edinburgh's important workshop also includes artists who are interested in what has been defined as a «female» craft ever since Homer's Odyssey portrayed Penelope weaving and unweaving a tapestry.

The artist, moving on from patchwork blankets and embroidery, is trying out tapestry for the first time and is collaborating with weavers at the West Dean Tapestry Studio on a reworking of her Black Cat — a «rather demonic self - portrait in a long black dress» — in thread.

Also, check out the weavers at the nearby Hammock Shop (10880 Ocean Hwy.; 843/237 -9122).

However, it is widely held to have crossed the English Channel with Flemish weavers at the encouragement of Henry I of England in the year 1107.

Trained as a weaver at Chelsea College of Art, she utilises the embedded histories of cloth, to comment on the compacted social histories that are encapsulated within material culture.

Not exact matches

When I was at my nonprofit, VisionSpring, I would be in a village in rural Bangladesh, with a community of weavers.

I had in my heart and tongue the Name of Allah when ever I had fears, troubles or depression of any kind but from Jan 05 1995 when had lost my father and second brother in a car accident, it was the time I really felt am alone at age of 33 to face all the challenges my father has left upon me to run and manage among other partners therefore had been investigating the Quran as to understanding every word of it rather than to memorize it, have been did a lot of reciting verses of prayers begging God to look upon me and give me strength... am sure through such difficult times if I had no faith in God I would have perished and lost every thing long ago... Another thing my heart always gave me signs and my mind gave me logic of what to believe although have read many books abroad in my youth of many beliefs out of curiosity but could not belief in other than that God is one and Muhammed is his last prophet in all belief of the Quran he brought upon me / us in all that it says... Should mention at times had experienced dreams seeing signs and warnings long in advance of things going to happen A year or more before losing my father in a car accident I had seen him in my dream good bye wearing white cloth and going to board a tourist ship all crew dressed in white uniform rolling a red carpet on front of him and when was on the top of the stairs weaver smiling good bye... seen in another dream how or wealth will be stolen and what I will hold... so many things like that..

For example, what math was used to calculate the capability of dragline silk from an orb weaver spider that is lighter than cotton, yet ounce for ounce stronger than steel, tougher than kevlar (used in bullet - proof vests), that if the silk were 0.4 inch thick with strands 1.6 inches apart and enlarged the size of a football field, could stop a jumbo jet in flight, that is flying at an average speed of about 600 mph?

«The artisans of Hill Country Hill Tribers are weavers, sewers, tatters, jewelry - makers, stay - at - home moms, grandmothers, widows, teachers, mentors, students, and survivors.

And there was again war with the Philistines at Gob; and Elhanan, the son of Jaareoregim, the Bethlehemite, slew Goliath the Gittite, the shaft of whose spear was like a weaver's beam.

Would that these were translated into each and every language so that they might be read and understood not only by Scots and Irishmen, but also by Turks and Saracens... Would that the farmer might sing snatches of Scripture at his plough, that the weaver might hum phrases of Scripture to the tune of his shuttle, that the traveler might lighten with stories from Scripture the weariness of his journey.1

He remained with them for a time, usually working at his trade, that of a tent - maker or weaver, until they seemed strong enough to carry on alone, then went on to another center, leaving some helper in charge or sometimes simply some local individual who had shown signs of leadership.

We women are weavers — makers of things from the stuff at hand.

Down the road a stretch at the Pacifica Motel were the Tommy Jacobses, the Mason Rudolphs, the Don Whitts, the Bert Weavers, the Huston LaClairs and the Gay Brewers.

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Adding materials cost, time in design, labor in weaving, and labor in finishing, setting the cost of the wrap at $ 120 or higher per meter makes easy sense to pay the weaver in time and materials.

The Uptown Coffeehouse presents The Work O» The Weavers on Sunday November 1 at 5 p.m. at 4450 Fieldston Road (the Riverdale Yonkers Society for Ethical Culture Bldg.) Admission is $ 18.

Councilman Arnold Stevens uses a «weaver,» a horizontal piece for making a basket, to make a point about flexibility as he speaks at Meet the Candidate Night held in Johnsburg, Sept. 5.

But the three orb weavers» body clocks average at about 17.4, 18.5 and 19 hours respectively.

The mechanism for the maintenance of cooperative behaviour in sociable weavers revealed by this study is unlikely to operate at such a global scale, but within smaller communities the idea of kin - directed cooperative behaviour is likely to be widespread and relevant across many other species.

Nelson and Jackson therefore carried out experimental work at the International Rice Research Institute in the Philippines to look at the dynamics between a type of jumping spider (Phintella piatensis), the territorial weaver ant (Oecophylla smaragdina) and a web - building predatory spitting spider (Scytodes sp).

Orb weavers that produce fuzzy, sticky fibers called cribellate silk ended up in a part of the tree that includes many spiders that don't make webs at all, whereas orb weavers that make a viscid silk are on their own branch.

And I'm obsessed with a natural deodorant I got at Spirit Weavers in California — there are all these vendors who sell natural products.

It is a skirt that was originally sold at the Guatemalan Weavers shop in Adventureland, which today is the Indiana Jones Outpost.

A rush of color and precise geometry manifest the weaver's dexterity at the loom.

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A traveling weaver arrives at this community looking for his son and is later asked to help solve a murder.

During the tour you will experience the visit to weavers cooperatives that work on natural dyes, learn about naïve art of the Tzutujil Mayan People at their home studios, see local markets, the medicinal herbs plantation, plazas and possibly see a Mayan ritual at Maximon in Santiago Atitlan.

Helping Choquecancha, (Lares) Chincheros, Pampallaqta, Qeros near Paucartambo Communities Weavers so they can sell their beautiful work at Hotel Marqueses.

During this tour, you'll visit carpenters in Ciudad Vieja, weavers in San Antonio Aguas Calientes, and farmers at an experimental macademia nut plantation.

Then visit the famous Rishtan ceramic workshops and silk weaver's workshop at Margilan.

You can also buy famous Banaue souvenirs and see weavers in action at the tourist shops nearby.

Collaborating with a team of weavers from the Dovecot Studios in Edinburgh, Turner Prize winner Chris Ofili has designed a tapestry for the Clothworkers Hall, which is being shown at the National Gallery within a room lined with murals.

For her forth - coming show at Thomas Dane Gallery, Caragh Thuring (b. 1972, Brussels) has collaborated with weavers from Suffolk and Belgium to create canvas woven with the images of her previous works.

Weavers» Stories from Island Southeast Asia Organized by the Fowler Museum at UCLA, the exhibition lets weavers and batik artists speak for themselves in videos recorded at eight sites in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, and EastWeavers» Stories from Island Southeast Asia Organized by the Fowler Museum at UCLA, the exhibition lets weavers and batik artists speak for themselves in videos recorded at eight sites in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Eastweavers and batik artists speak for themselves in videos recorded at eight sites in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, and East Timor.

Albers studied at the Bauhaus and later taught at Black Mountain College and her book On Weaving (1965) is «Dedicated to my great teachers, the weavers of ancient Peru».

SMALL - GREAT OBJECTS: ANNI AND JOSEF ALBERS IN THE AMERICAS Two beloved figures among artists, an abstract painter and weaver who met at the Bauhaus in Germany, made several trips to Latin America and the American Southwest between 1935 and 1967.

From its beginnings in 1912 when Gordon Berry and John Glassbrook came from the William Morris Studios at Merton Abbey in Wimbledon, the Dovecot weavers have collaborated with a roster of artists including David Hockney and Frank Stella.

At just a fraction of the size of the finished article, it was this drawing that served as the weavers» main reference, from which they produced a cartoon enabling them to transfer Ofili's design to the loom (main picture).

In 1954, she spent six weeks studying tapestry with Finnish weaver Martta Taipale at the Penland School of Crafts, North Carolina.

Graham is primarily a weaver, but she knits, too, and last fall she was one of more than a dozen women attending a two - day workshop with Mably at the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft.

Alighiero Boetti, the subject of a major survey in 2012 at Tate Modern, the Reina Sofia and MoMA NY, is represented by several important works, including his Mappa from 1979 (illustrated left, estimate: # 450,000 - 650,000)-- part of the famous series of embroidered world maps that he made between 1971 and 1994 in partnership with Afghan women weavers living in Kabul and later as refugees in Peshawar — are the best - known and most - loved of all his works.

Among them is Erika Tan, whose project stitches together the life of Halimah Binti Abdullah, a weaver who was brought to Wembley to perform her craft in the Malayan Pavilion at the 1924 Empire Exhibition.

The title is a quotation from E.P.Thompson's The Making of the English Working Class, in which the historian and long - time extramural lecturer at Leeds University tried «to rescue the poor stockinger, the Luddite cropper, the «obsolete» hand - loom weaver, the «utopian» artisan and even the deluded follower of Joanna Southcott, from the enormous condescension of posterity».

Other projects curated during this time included a collaboration between an Iranian carpet weaver and the artist Mike Kelley, the work Ranch by Jorge Pardo and Jason Rhoades, and Diana Thaters presentation of «The best animals are the flat animals and The best space is the deep space» at MAK Center for Art and Architecture.

Accompanying Chris Ofili: Weaving Magic, the artist's ambitious presentation of the tapestry within a specially conceived environment in the Sunley Room at the National Gallery, this publication tells the story of the work's evolution and documents the close collaboration between Ofili and master weavers who have interpreted his designs with astonishing nuance.

Continuing her artistic research in the United States, where she emigrated with her husband in 1933, she rapidly became a key player in textile art, and in 1949 she was the first weaver to exhibit at MoMA, New York.

When Chris Ofili wanted to translate the liquid qualities of his watercolours into woven wool for his current exhibition «Weaving Magic» at London's National Gallery, he turned to the master weavers of Dovecot Tapestry Studio — a project that became nearly three years in the making.

Performance: «Liz Collins» Knitting Nation 15» at the Museum of Arts and Design This time - based installation and live labor performance spans a six - hour session on Sunday afternoon with a crew of professional weavers turning the museum's atrium into a virtual knitting factory.