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The last surviving sea silk weaver

By: Dahlia Rodriguez 6 Feb, 20186 Feb, 2018

Crafts Heritage, Women Stories#crafts, #culturalheritage, #Heritagecraftsatrisk, #Italy, #Sardinia, #womenLeave a Comment

Byssus art is an exceptional tradition keept safe by women who preserved it by transmitting this tradition to other women of their family tree. Now, Chiara Vigo, from Sardina, seems to be the last sea silk weaver alife.

Desula

By: Dahlia Rodriguez 4 Feb, 20188 Mar, 2018

Crafts Heritage, Women Stories#Dresses, #Embroidery, #Italy, #Needlework, #research, #womenLeave a Comment

“Each stitching, every piece of fabric, and all the colours talk about me”

Textiles by Women

By: Dahlia Rodriguez 29 Jan, 20188 Mar, 2018

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Find at Google Arts & Culture the story of groups of women preserving and enhancing textile tradition in India.

The Quiltmakers of Gee’s Bend

By: Dahlia Rodriguez 13 Jan, 201816 Apr, 2019

Crafts Heritage, Women Stories#GeesBend, #quilting, #quilts, #research, #USA, #womenLeave a Comment

Celia Carey: This uplifting, Emmy-winning PBS film tells the modern-day “Cinderalla” story of the quiltmakers of Gee’s Bend, Alabama. Artists born into extreme poverty, they live to see their quilts hailed by a The New York Times art critic as “some of the most miraculous works of modern art America has produced.”

Embroidered Lifeline for Palestinian Women Refugees in Jordan

By: Dahlia Rodriguez 10 Jan, 201810 Jan, 2018

Inspiring Experiences, Women Stories#crafts, #cross-stitch, #Embroidery, #ethicalfashion, #Palestine, #Refugees, #research, #SocialEntrepreneurship, #storytelling, #womenLeave a Comment

Empowering Embroidery

Anni Albers: Women weaving at the Bauhaus

By: Dahlia Rodriguez 9 Jan, 20189 Jan, 2018

Crafts Heritage, Women Stories#AnniAlbers, #Bauhaus, #research, #weaving, #womenLeave a Comment

In this program, the first in the series about Bauhaus Women, Nicholas Fox Weber, Executive Director, The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, spotlights Anni Albers’s works and experience at the Bauhaus, including her pivotal role in the weaving workshops despite we never heard about them.