Over the Christmas/New Years’ holiday, my aunt, TheEnabler, and I made it to some museums. I’ve been a bit behind on telling you about some of the textile craft things I saw. First, some stuff I don’t have any pictures of. At the Bode-Museum, the Byzantine Art collection included some… Read More »While we were in Berlin…
Our last museum stop on Tuesday was the Chicago Art Institute. As I was feeling pretty museumed-out, I headed straight for the one wing and exhibit I was interested in – the Textile wing with it’s special exhibit “Music and Movement: Rhythm in Textile Design,” which is frankly buried in… Read More »The Chicago Art Institute – Music and Movement
First, let me say I am torn about mummy displays in museums. On one hand, we can learn an immense amount of information about past peoples and cultures from mummies. On the other hand, so often they feel pretty macabre. Putting long dead people on display can feel, well, invasive.… Read More »The Field Museum Chicago – Peruvian Mummies
It’s crazy, but as I write this, it’s been nearly three weeks since I went to the Field Museum in Chicago, and I’m only just now getting around to really talking about all the cool things I saw there. This is post one of four I have planned. I’ll post… Read More »The Field Museum Chicago – China + Tibet
We had a packed two days in Chicago: Field Museum – lots of cool textiles Shedd Aquarium – devoid of textiles Yarnify – surprise! This is a yarn store Deep dish pizza – key textile tip: eat carefully so as not to get it on knitting but bring your knitting… Read More »Chicago – It’s Textile Scene
In just a couple weeks I’ll be back in the states. I want to buy a book on textiles/crafts to bring back to Germany. Just one though – I don’t need too big a stash of books as getting them back again will become more difficult. I think I have… Read More »Self Control
The last two days saw two major textile related milestones. 1) Our washing machine was installed. Folks, we have been without a washing machine since we moved into our apartment at the end of May. Unlike in the states, where apartments come with a washing machine, a shared laundry room,… Read More »Critical Textile Update
I only had a day to explore Utrecht and Amsterdam. Besides my little yarn crawl (see previous post) I wanted to check out something touristy but also educational. A colleague recommended MUSEUM ONS’ LIEVE HEER OP SOLDER, a museum of a Catholic House Church. The top three levels of three combined… Read More »Our Lord in the Attic – not old chests of dusty clothes
So in my first post I posed three packing questions: “What to take?”, “What to destash?”, and “What to leave?” I answered the first one and the last one, but didn’t cover destashing! Why not? Frankly, in the end I didn’t have much to destash. Either I am: A) Incredibly… Read More »What to Destash + Books
