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Women War Rugs from Afghanistan

Thousands of years of weaving tradition being transmitted from mother to daughter in Afghanistan. Thousands of years of weaving tradition transmitting the impact of war, conflict and forced displacement through a new iconology. Largest online archive of Afghan war rugs is maintained by New York–based artist Kevin Sudeith, but weavers’ authorship is often lost. At the EU level, Flore …

Herero Women

I discovered Herero women in Pinterest thanks to the amazing photgraphic work made by Jim Naughten in 2012. An amazing work featured globally by several media. The Guardian It´s Nice That The Times Daily Mail Independent For someone like me who loves patchwork and is so interested in women´s heritage and identity, you can imagine how …

Margaret & the art of Ndebele women

When a woman meets a group of women, all of them creative, only good things can result from this experience. It´s the case of the photographer Margaret Courtney-Clarke and her photo documentary about the art of Ndebele women. Based in West Africa, these women use vernacular art to enhance traditional architecture by painting them by …

Keeping Tin Embroidery Alive

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4voO2BImX0A I discovered few weeks ago the amazing art of Tin Embroidery thanks to Great Big Story article on the matter. Tin Embroidery is a unique stitching technique using metal instead of fibers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2Bvg8qi4yQ One of the amazing thing of this artisan tradition , which surprises me the most is the control of the whole …

Inspiring Oloop

https://vimeo.com/191295117 Oloop is a Slovenian initiative aimed at working with women and empowering them through arts and crafts, textile creation and memories. European Design Stories talked with them and prepared this video and article. Another very interesting project they implemented is: Revealed Hands – human and business achievements, funded by the European Social Fund and the Republic …

Ge Ba, textile collage by Chinese Women

Found in moowon an amazing article about textile collage prepared by Chinese women living in the countryside. The testimony about this making shared in the article is amazing. "When I was a kid, my mother was making collages. She always kept aside the cloths she found. When the time came to make it, she first …