A new restaurant by Masquespacio, Living Bakkali, evokes ancient Arabic artistry with organic shapes, layered textures, and balmy neutrals.
This tutorial on how to make walnut dye will lead you through the process of extracting natural dye from walnut husks to obtain various shades of brown and make interesting patterns for your wool yarn.
The Menokin Foundation hopes to transform the historic mansion of Francis Lightfoot Lee and 500-acre classroom into an educational and environmental experience like no other. You are invited to step inside this unfolding story and glimpse the impact that this mysterious place has had on two photographers and one architect with an eye for the exceptional.
Jan Beaney arrived recently for her annual two-day visit to the Centre. What a treat was in store for one and all! She is just an amazing tutor. Some of the class were regulars who come every year and wouldn't miss it for the world. Others have been itching to get on a course with Jan for many years. This year she based the work around the theme of Stitched Landscapes. She lead us deftly through a design process which gave us the basis for our compositions. We then used snippets of fibres, yarns etc held between two layers of soluble fabric to build our designs. Once this was in place we could both machine and hand stitch into it, knocking it back with an embellisher if needed, before washing away the soluble fabric. Two days of gorgeous creative textiles. As well as the photo of Jan demonstrating sorbello stitch are two of the pieces by students - work in progress. If you'd like to know more about working with soluble fabrics, check out the series of books written by Jan and Jean Littlejohn (Double Trouble Enterprises), and don't miss their courses next year. Jan's course will be centred on the theme of 'trees' and will be 7th and 8th of September. This course is already booking! We are also indebted to Coats Crafts UK who regularly sponsor these two courses by sending us lovely threads and yarns to experiment with. Aren't we lucky!
The Rain Harvest Home by Javier Sanchez of JSa architects and Robert Hutchison of Robert Hutchison Architecture in Mexico combines style and sustainability
Not all attics can support the weight of a living space. Find out what you can safely do with your space and which attic flooring can be installed.
tent-like structures have been distributed around the 'together hostel'; stacked and overlapped to create single and double rooms.
Wow kids of all ages and make a lava lamp in-a-bag!
Potager Urbain en Bambou, la agriculture urbaine. Une nouvelle idée des Jardins de Babylone pour cultiver à la verticale.
