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As I’ve said before – I really love felt. While at the Renegade Craft Fair this past weekend I saw tons of yarn and lots of garments as well as tons of stationary too – one of the most technically interesting though was Heartfelt Studios scarves. At first glance, from afar, I thought that they […]

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Another Renegade Craft Fair find was Papaver Vert whose founder, Patty Benson, and I got talking at length about felting crochet pieces. Much like some of my own amoebas, Patty’s take the idea a step further to wet felting them, which she does in her washing machine uses a pair of jeans as agitation. The […]

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Another find at the Renegade Craft Fair was Dandy Lion Press – owned and operated by Maia Karolina de Raat. She owns a letterpress upon which she makes amazing cards and stationary inspired by animals – real and imaginary – I think. Maia also makes calendars annually it appears – the first it appears was […]

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Another of the vendors at the Renegade Craft Fair that I was excited to find and get to know was Marilyn Brogan of Meander. I love her slightly obsessive drawings that focus on multiples of dots, circles, lines etc. The above is called her Stack piece. I love how it looks like cartoon waves almost. […]

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Also at Cite the other weekend, I stumbled upon Niels van Eijk and Miriam van der Lubbe – turns out their work extends so far beyond the handgun purse that was there I almost want to separate this into multiple posts but I’m going to try one! I love how the above are like apartment […]

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NYFA 2009 Arts Fellowships were awarded this year and I recently went through the crafts winners to see what they were making. One of my favorite artists, Emily Barletta, received one of the fellowships so I was intrigued to see which other artists were recognized. By this process I discovered Heather Hart, who, like me, […]

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My brother sends me tons of weird stuff from his Google Reader. Whether he’s home or abroad I typically wake up with at least one email from him with a small editorial comment and then whatever the weird thing is. He was spot on this morning with a needly felter from Minnesotta, Kit Lane. He […]

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Another find at my recent journey up to the Cooper-Hewitt was Pernelle Fagerlund. I have spent some time in Copenhagen in the past and my favorite part of the city is in fact the Danish Design Center – my brother’s kitchen pendant lamp from there was his big gift from my time abroad! It’s no […]

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Another stop on my Saturday of concept gallery/store visits was Cite, which doesn’t really count as I believe it’s regularly a furniture store but they had a selection of 23 Dutch designers in at the time, which were awesome. One studio I liked was Oooms Studio founded by Guido Ooms and Karin van Lieshout. Their […]

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While at Droog today I fell in love with a huge work that they have in the store now by Pieke Bergmans. I had never heard of her but she’s Dutch, of course, and works largely in glass. As a reformed glass blower myself I know the basics of the process and when looking at […]