recycled aggregate concrete street furniture by cilicon faytory.....with an estimated 1.0 to 1.2 million tones of demolition waste produced annually and with the increased en-bloc activities, there is great potential in tapping on these recycled aggregates for non-structural application. the national university of singapore has successfully recycled aggregate/concrete into various applications.
just folk folk art----Bo Jangles, Top hat, jacket, vest and pants covered in sown squares of silk textile. ---
today I discovered a dangerous blog, an ambitious project collapsing -- dangerous because once you start looking, you can't stop...if spiritcloth sees this blog, I know she will be happy..and I believe Textile Files would like it too....luckily Ercole, my Greek teacher, is coming in 6 minutes. Otherwise, I spend the night here.
things that have been mended: Never Say Die, There is something beautiful about how some old things are improved with repair. In Asia, broken large pots and fine china were usually mended by drilling holes near the edge of the broken pieces and then binding the shards together with flattened brass wire. Here are some ceramic pots in China that were mended this way.----Mending My Ways ----The Repairing Of Thread Lace----This mended vintage dress discovered in an abandoned Kansas farmhouse seems to be inhabited by the spirits of the woman who wore it and mended it. Artist Dorothy Caldwell uses hand stitching in her own work----
These 18th century American-designed and executed laces are from the women's cottage industry of Ipswich, Massachusetts. Treatment: After consultation with the Textile Museum, conservators removed the laces from old paper supports and re-housed them in specially designed muslin-covered mats.
fashion: Katherine Soucie----Katherine Soucie, Sans Soucie, nouvelle griffe de Vancouver----Interview with Katherine Soucie of Sans Soucie ---scroll down for Katherine Soucieis an adventurer in the volatile territory of clothing, navigating her terrain with confidence and zest from a sound background of textiles, fashion and the technology of printing. ---
paula sanz caballero----Cross-Stitched Cars----help needed, We are in need of some help making little jackets we believe will be easier for you and our hens.. -----Dance monster, by Lou Lou & Oscar - made for In Stitches show at Renegade-----
patchwork, What possesses a woman to cut out tiny pieces of fabric and spend hours and hours sewing them together? The words of one help explain: "I made quilts as fast as I could to keep my family warm . . . and as pretty as I could to keep my heart from breaking." ----
Pierluigi and I spent the weekend in Tuscany....I'd forgotten how beautiful the countryside was in autumn. When we arrived, we had a great and simple lunch of pecorino cheese, bruschetta made with fresh olive oil as well as some Montalcino wine. For hotel reading, I brought along Elsa Schaiparelli's autobiography, Shocking Life.
Elsa Schiaparelli was a fashion designer. She was born in Rome but abandoned her Italian citizenship and became French. She invented the color shocking pinkas well as the body shaped perfume bottle (now copied by Gaultier), used zippers for high fashion and made use of elastic waistbands. She was a contemporary of Coco Chanel who once described Elsa as a artist disguised as a fashion designer. Elsa was also the grandmother of actress Marisa Berenson.
'' Women dress alike all over the world: they dress to be annoying to other women. '' - Elsa Schiaparelli
Elsa Schiaparelli (1890-1973) collaborated with a number of Surrealist artists, including Salvador Dalí, Jean Cocteau, and Alberto Giacometti. She translated many of Surrealism’s precepts into imaginative and often provocative designs.
Shoe Hat (collaboration with Salvador Dalí), winter 1937-38. Black wool felt.
Elsa Schiaparelli, the flamboyant fashion designer of the Art Deco period, is renowned for her fabulous eccentricity and innovation. She changed fashion and people's attitudes to it with her scandalous dresses and colourful personality. Her legacy of spectacular designs and an entirely innovative approach to fashion design has moulded contemporary fashion and inspired countless fashion designers, including Galliano, McQueen, Gaultier and Yves Saint Laurent. In short, Elsa Schiaparelli was the woman who shaped fashion as we know it today - creating the pattern for all dresses to come.
Fall looks inspired by World War II-Era designer Elsa Schiaparelli----The opening-night gala for "Shocking: The Art and Fashion of Elsa Schiaparelli"----and still more Elsa-----
Lost Glove---White Gloves ---day job, glove art---Untitled from the Like Everyday Series by Shadi Ghadirian---Enrico Baj (Italian artist, 1924-2003) Glove Folded vinyl glove encapsulated in plastic. ----
Sofà Montanaro by Gaetano Pesce--- Divano design Meritalia NUBOLA by Gaetano Pesce ---more views of montanara’ couch by gaetano pesce--- see gaetano pesce's website----
Morna Crites-Moore’s Recycled Sweater Art 
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still from an ambitious project (is it possible to copy and paste and entire blog?) so please click this!!!!---- and if you still exist, click charlie logan----- and darning samples---- and this---- and this---- and this---- and even BORO!---- galleria tsumugi---- gee's bend quilts---sock cats----
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Shoe Hat (collaboration with Salvador Dalí), winter 1937-38. Black wool felt.
Elsa Schaiparelli by Man Ray (Collection SFMOMA)
elsa's skeleton dress 
gloves..... 
