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...Lucy Wood, a former senior curator of furniture at the V&A, has recently overseen a project to restore two chairs designed by the 18th-century architect William Kent....
...The show takes visitors on a journey through Loewe’s work with Indian ribbon-makers, Ecuadorian tapestry artists and Chinese bamboo weavers....
...In 1969, Collingwood became the first living weaver to show at the V&A when a series of his rugs and wall hangings went on display alongside the work of potter Hans Coper....
...The exhibition Africa Fashion at the V&A in London was a barometer of this shift....
...Gainsborough was born and grew up here, the son of a weaver. As a successful artist he lived in Ipswich, then fashionable Bath and, finally, London....
...Share your ideas with us at imani.moise@ft.com and sid.v@ft.com. Happy reading!...
...Thompson, who was sent to Asia as a spy towards the end of the second world war, started his business when he found a settlement of silk weavers in Bangkok....
...Melly had identified these sartorial shifts as early as 1966, when he noticed exaggerated costumes worn by gallery-goers at an exhibition of the work of Aubrey Beardsley, the Victorian illustrator, at the V&...
...And finally . . . it’s the last chance to see three of only four existing textiles spun from the naturally golden silk of millions of orb-weaver spiders, at Oliver Hoare Limited in London’s Cromwell Place...
...What really interests both designers is reinterpreting classic menswear staples such as varsity jackets, skinny jeans, pea coats and V-neck sweaters through craft and manipulation....
...The vast majority of that has come from donors who do not live in the state: of the $11.8m Mr Harrison had raised from individuals at the end of June, $10m came from out of state....
...In South Carolina’s Senate race, Democratic challenger Jaime Harrison raised $39.3m more than Lindsey Graham, the Republican incumbent....
...Mr Graham has represented the traditionally Republican state in the Senate for almost 18 years, but recent opinion polls show him neck-and-neck with his Democratic opponent, Jaime Harrison, who has raised...
...He said that Mr Harrison, who has raised $29m for his bid to flip South Carolina, had pulled in “a staggering amount of money” for a Democrat competing in the traditionally Republican state, which was a...
...Dan Eberhart, a Republican donor to Mr Trump, said while the GDP numbers appeared to validate the president’s promise of a “V-shaped recovery”, they may have come too late in the campaign to help Mr Trump...
...“He’s v bright, tough and politically savvy with a small p,” tweeted Rupert Harrison, the former Tory chancellor’s one-time chief adviser....
...years ago, couldn’t get approved for anything since, ‘begged’ me for a non Senate approved job, which I gave him despite many saying ‘Don’t do it, sir,’ takes the job, mistakenly says ‘Libyan Model on T.V....
...Additional reporting by Courtney Weaver in Washington...
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.../ From John V Baldwin, Cernobbio, Italy...
...Here’s what George Osborne’s chief of staff from 2006 to 2015, Rupert Harrison, said last week: He isn’t the only one....
...Ms Schoen said she believed it was unlikely that the court would overturn Roe v Wade....
...“We’re escalating,” he says, raising his voice to be overheard over the strains of Nat King Cole’s “L-O-V-E”, blaring in the background. “This is basically day one.” courtney.weaver@ft.com...
...But when it launches in July next year, the game will still feature bat v ball, a duel of willow against leather over 22 yards on a grass pitch....
...Yes, the numbers are bigger, but the shock, while not a V is shorter and sharper than that crash, and the pre-crisis fiscal situation was strong....
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