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The Weaving Women of Bhutan

BY JODY MADALA The Omnipresent Sound of the Loom After a week and a half touring through Bhutan’s villages and cities, the thwap-thwap-thwap sounds of prayer flags flapping in the brisk mountain wind becomes the norm. As you near the many temples and…

When Life Strikes

BY ANNIE WATERMAN Love & Loss “When Life Strikes,” is a touching installation created by textile/fiber artist Sara White, evoking feelings of life and death, hope and loss, love and pain. It was less than two years ago when Sara and her…

Kenyan Utopia

BY KEITH RECKER Nani Croze, her buildings made with recycled materials, and her health and education projects. Nani Croze, German artist and community activist, settled in Kenya many years ago. Her flower-child idealism has inspired a complex of Gaudi-esque buildings with…

Local Icons

BY JULIE HALL Santa Fe’s pantheon of multicultural saints La Villa Real de la Santa Fé de San Francisco de Asís was the official name given to the capital city of New Mexico when it was founded in 1608. Santa Fe (Spanish for “Holy…

WomenWeave

BY REBECA SCHILLER Bringing the handloom back to life Weave together 1960’s idealism, leadership and vision, and a great love for everything India, and the fabric you get is Sally Holkar, the force behind WomenWeave, an NGO dedicated to improving the…

The Weya Way

BY CHERYL ROBERTSON Where tradition is still alive and well Scrawled on rough newsprint, the artist’s hand-written description says: “Three women are brewing beer and another one is carrying a clay pot of water. Two men are helping themselves to seven-days…

Art Expands Hearts

BY SARAH BUTTENWIESER The Iraqi children’s art exchange When longtime early childhood educator—and peace activist—Claudia Lefko signed on to travel to Baghdad at the tail end of 2000 with Ramsey Clark and others as part of a delegation bringing medicine and…

Rugs to love

TEXT: ROCIO NOYA I’m very proud of being a weaver , It´s a marvelous art. This is something really beautiful and at the same time it allows us to stay in our homes with our families. I like weaving so much!…

In The Beginning

BY JOSEFA NOLTE The beauty of Peru’s Pre-Columbian cultures Peruvian textile production began more than 10,000 years ago as evidenced by artefacts recovered in the Guitarrero Cave of the Ancash region. The first inhabitants of the Andean region developed a vast…