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…
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!…
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…
BY REBECA SCHILLER Teri Greeves’ whimsical beaded high tops Raised on the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming among the Shoshone and Northern Arapaho, Teri Greeves was taught to bead by friends and relatives who came to her mother’s trading post. Her…
BY SARAH BUTTENWIESER When you think farmers’ market, you generally flash to images of vegetables, loads of them, especially the ones you imagine as most bountiful where you live. In New England, picture a progression from leafy greens through radishes and…
BY ANNIE WATERMAN Woven fabrics old for 21st century use Situated in the heart of the Old Nick Village of Plettenberg Bay, Cape Town is the Living Weaving Museum, where founder Stuart Holding shares his love for old textile equipment and techniques.…
BY KATHLEEN SCULLY A symbol of eternal optimism From North Africa to South Africa, east to west, yellow is a color of great importance to the people of this vast and diverse land. In The Primary Colors, Andrew Theroux writes that yellow…
BY LENORE LOUISA CABILI Filip + Inna and the Tboli women In the highlands of Mindanao, the Tboli people weave their Tnalak through dreams revealed to them by the spirit of the abaca, Fu Dalu. By happenstance, it is also there that…
BY CHRISTINE MARTENS Tumar, a modern Kyrgyz felt atelier, produces all manner of felt from ethnographic horse trappings to simple, contemporary shoes. Their motivation is as much cultural as it is economic. Tumar’s three co-founders sought to elevate the quality of…
BY REBECA SCHILLER The Friends of Tilonia In an article for Catalyst, Ellen Fish, executive director of Friends of Tilonia, wrote, “Being illiterate and poor is no barrier.” Fish knows this from first hand experience gathered through her work linking The Friends…