Art & tapestries

Alighiero Boetti’s Arazzi – Tapestry made in Pashtunistan

Textile art / 5 minutes of reading

“It would be nice to be two people – one all aware and real, the other all dreamy and unconscious – who go hand in hand, without ever mingling,” – Alighiero Boetti. Childhood Alighiero Boetti was a prominent Italian Conceptual artist and Arte Povera movement member. As he grew up in Turin, Italy, where …

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Why was Anni Albers a leading textile artist?

Textile art / 3 minutes of reading

Anni Albers was a well known German textile artist and prominent printmaker. She is perhaps one of the most well-known print artists of the 20th century. Albers dared to go where no textile designer had gone before, which in part helped to launch her designs into popularity. Born in Berlin, Albers became a student …

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Erin M. Riley interview – Nothing is off limits (NSFW)

Interviews, Textile art / 9 minutes of reading

Is there a better reflection of a culture than the creatives living in it? From painters to photographers to poets, the voice of our moment is often told most aptly and timelessly through what they create. The same goes for Erin M. Riley. She has taken a look at both her own and the …

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Alighiero Boetti’s beautiful Maps of the World

Textile art / 7 minutes of reading

The story behind Boetti’s Maps of the World The Mappa tapestries are some of the most important works by Alighiero Boetti. Upon his first arrival in Afghanistan in 1971, Boetti began a continuous collaboration with local weavers to produce embroidered tapestries, using himself only as the referential artist but considering the works a creation of …

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