Tweets about my peripatetic work writing and curating craft and design & making digital things in museums. Just written: Art Supplies, a book for UPPERCASE.
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Jane Audas retweeted
Tucked into a corner of a public park in north-east London, you can find a museum that bears his name: William Morris Gallery.
Read our latest Vitsœ Voice story: vitsoe.com/voice/morris
Words: @janeaudas
Photography: @Vitsoe @WMGallery
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Jane Audas retweeted
Who has cast the spell? An artist on an extraordinary #house, or vice versa? @JaneAudas interviews #artist @halimacassell about her luminous new show in the spaces at #Blackwell – the Arts & Crafts House @lakelandarts in the Lake District. See >>> tinyurl.com/3djdxx3m
Donkey in a lion's skin, 1957, by ceramicist Rut Bryk. In the collection @emmamuseum, Finland.
Jane Audas retweeted
All set up for the first @RHSLibraries Lindley Live of the autumn season - a little look at the life and times of Thomas Fairchild - City gardening with the Georgians.
It’s the kind of weather that makes me think of ceramic ice lollies, as made by Odette Muijsers in Amsterdam. @odettemuijsers
There is a new planner in town. @PenfoldPress, @StarchGreen and Emily Sutton have collaborated on a handsome wall planner. I wrote 3 posts about it on the Penfold Press website. The first is here: penfoldpress.co.uk/blogs/sto…
A pochoir illustration by Edward McKnight Kauffer, from the book Elsie and the Child published in 1929 by Curwen Press. I love these illustrations, find them very evocative - the shadows on this building remind me of this time of year.
I managed to grow this Abutilon from seed. Not sure how that happened. I now have a tiny piece of my thumb which is looking a bit green.
Akira by Katsuhiro Otomo. A brief typographic history of the influential Japanese comic. Via @gray
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Mmm. Catalogue joy.
WOW ! Look at this... the earliest known #TGGreen catalogue dating to the late 1870s ! Fascinating reading 📔🎓 #cornishware #gresley #churchgresley #swadlincote #derbyshire #southderbyshire #pottery #ceramics #catalogue
Jane Audas retweeted
Today’s pic shows shipyard workers fooling about at Ramage & Ferguson Shipbuilders #1925
John Groat (left).
John Groat is the grandfather of John Groat (b.1924), a lovely chap who used to visit The Wee Museum of Memory 4 our #reminiscence groups. His grandfather was a shipwright
ALT A smiling shipyard worker in a boiler suit with a cigarette in his mouth presents a bouquet of flowers to two smiling workers dressed in smart suits who are wearing bunnets
Linen furnishing fabric 'Basket', designed by Dorothy Larcher in the 1930s. This belongs to @V_and_A
