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While conveniently hiding from the rain at Selfridges in London I came upon their little shop within a shop of wonderful Dutch design items mostly to wear or for the home. I saw a really beautiful lantern and picked it up – that’s where I learned about Pols Potten.  The lantern was the one below […]

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Driving through London last week I spotted a rug hanging in a window – I quickly whipped around (I was in the back seat) and jotted the name down on a lark, Luke Irwin. Turns out it’s an awesome thing I did because Luke’s custom rug making studio makes some pieces that are reminiscent of […]

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Textile Arts Center has a fabulous blog full of wonderful fiber artists so many in fact it’s just hard to keep up sometimes with everything cool that they share. I don’t even try but sometimes I just want to post on the same artists over here because they’re great! Such was the case when I […]

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Over at Contemporist the other day I was introduced to Dan Yeffet and Lucie Koldova who collaborate on many projects it seems. I poked around on Dan’s own site of his work with his studio, JellyLab and found a whole bunch of neat stuff. The first way to my heart is through felting. The above […]

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I’m definitely late to the party on this one but I newly am a fan of Thomas Paul and his designs on all types of objects from pillows to shawls to lampshades. I want the shawl above, which is in grey though it comes in other colors. Thomas prints and weaves his designs, this being […]

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A few days ago the blog, Design*Sponge, listed out the winners of their scholarships and Misha Kahn was the top undergraduate winner. I was curious as to what garnered her the top honors and it was obvious upon visiting her site. She makes my yurt project looks small! Her “Egg” is 12 feet tall by […]

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While poking around on sites my boyfriend sent me I came across Mjolk Shop. I have long been a fan of Scandinavian design and this site blends Scandinavian treats with Japanese ones as well. As it’s the holidays I thought it was appropriate to share some of the coolest things I found on the site. […]

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A new contributor to my little blog here is my friend Kathryn who is not only my upstairs neighbor in Boston but also an interior designer in training. Today she sent me an image of some gorgeous crocheted baskets at Design Within Reach, called the Neo Baskets. Upon reading the online description I learned that […]

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My brother’s friend Neil told me that he was going to Mass MoCA yesterday basically just to rub it in. He sent me the link to the show he was going to see, Material World: Sculpture to Environment, which looked amazing and was right up my alley. Many of the artists in the show I […]

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As a result of this blog and the work I’m doing over at the Yurt Alert, sometimes people reach out to me! These people are often other wonderful fiber arts experimenting in the medium somehow. This happened just last week when I got an invitation from Jennifer Raish, who has a show up, right now, […]