Slow Living

BY Isla Meynell | December 12, 2009

British author and "slow foodie" Isla Meynell sees Slow Food principles influencing non-food disciplines.

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Cleaner Cotton

BY Lynda Grose | December 12, 2009

Designer/educator Lynda Grose talks about Cleaner Cotton TM, and improving the fashion landscape

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Barn Buff

BY Stephen Treffinger | December 12, 2009

Skip Yates is one of those guys who makes you want to abandon what you do and simply hang out with him...

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Threads of Meaning

BY Keith Recker | December 12, 2009

Michael Daube's Citta.org serves the needy with soulful scaves

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Certain Clothes

BY Keith Recker | December 10, 2009

If you want to know where your clothes come from and how they are made – and like what you learn – you need Goods of Conscience.

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Wild Man

BY Keith Recker | December 10, 2009

Forager and teacher Steve Brill finds wild foods in plain sight. Is foraging the next wave in handmade food?

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Waste Not

BY Lynda Grose | December 10, 2009

 California College of the Arts graduate Karina Michel turns organic cotton waste into fashion for Indian textile mill Pratibha Syntex.

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Folk Futures

BY Keith Recker | December 4, 2009

Juan Quezada single-handedly created a pottery movement that has taken on a life of its own.

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Discovering the Discoverer

BY Laura Aviva | December 4, 2009

Anthropologist Spencer MacCallum searched for Mata Ortiz potter Juan Quezada -- and a pottery movement was born.

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A Potter's Dilemma

BY Eric Mindling | December 3, 2009

 Two hundred generations of making pots. Two generations of the old ways no longer mattering. What is a potter to do?

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Petrus Spronk: Poet of Clay

BY India Flint | December 3, 2009

A potter works with the essentials of earth, stone and fire.

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Headliner

BY Keith Recker | November 27, 2009

Brigid Berlin’s needlepoint renditions of NY Post front pages are a sampler of celebrity, schadenfreude and social commentary

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Shout It Out

BY Keith Recker | November 27, 2009

Lisa Anne Auerbach’s sweaters make a statement

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Textile Odyssey, Poetic Pilgrimage

BY India Flint | November 20, 2009

Australian artist Holly Story's elegaic textiles

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Out of the Woods

BY India Flint | November 20, 2009

 A new vocabulary of color and pattern from botanical alchemist India Flint

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