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...In the exhibition Park Royal Clay, ceramicists and makers will transform raw London clay extracted from local major infrastructure projects into crafted objects and everyday products....
...It’s hard to appreciate the minuscule detail, made from layering tiny fragments of clay, without being very close to it....
...I agree with Carol Klein that a clay pot is the ideal receptacle as it absorbs water and sustains cuttings set around its inner side....
...For many decades after the discovery of her portrait and the clay tablets believed to carry her poems, Enheduana (also spelt Enheduanna) was a name familiar chiefly to scholars of ancient Mesopotamia....
...A tapestry by Scottish weaver Jo Barker — an abstract composition of dusky pinks, greens and greys — accompanies curvy moon jars and Giorgio Morandi-inspired bottles by Japanese artist Akiko Hirai....
...Other pieces include log baskets by weaver Lin Lovekin from willow grown on her withy beds on St Michael’s Mount, Cornwall; and crystal glasses handblown in Emsie Sharp’s Devon studio....
...San Francisco loungewear label Harvest & Mill takes a similar home-grown approach to its WFH-friendly organic cotton range, which incorporates limited-edition T-shirts naturally dyed with California clay...
...And a wealth of designers and makers are doing just that: reviving centuries-old methods with 21st‑century verve, firing up old factories and bringing back near-forgotten ways of working with wool, clay...
...Just as potters over the centuries have been profoundly affected by silicosis from clay dust, so the chemicals of the darkroom can also have deleterious effects on those who work with them....
...“It no longer feels that I have to be in some conference centre somewhere, with all my wares on display,” says Nell Swift, a weaver who lives in a remote part of the Peak District....
...“A few of the walls in our studio have a natural clay finish, while our showroom is lime plaster,” she says....
...The raw materials are sent to weavers across Iran....
...“I feel like I’m a child again,” she said, while kneading the clay....
...Before he began working in clay, Herman was described as the West Coast equivalent of the ’80s neo-expressionist movement....
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...Cholet, which owes the rise of its prosperity to the settlement of weavers in the 17th century, is situated in the thriving Pays de la Loire region....
...Sir, Courtney Weaver briefly quotes Newt Gingrich on a bipartisan approach to infrastructure rebuilding (“Trump adds pragmatism to polemic on policy”, November 14)....
...the competition that the jury afforded special mention (and €5,000) to experimental Japanese glassmaker Yoshiaki Kojiro, whose aquatic blue bowl melds copper oxide with glass powder, and Mexican basket-weavers...
...White leather bodices had been garment washed to shrink and wrinkle to seem as though they had been patted on to the body in wet clay....
...Her response was visionary: how about a Romney Marsh tweed, from Romney sheep, made by local weavers in the colours of the marshes — grey-blue sea, cerulean sky, grass punctuated by the odd fleck of clay-tile...
...While some European companies still sent their global CEOs, Clay Williams, of the oilfield services company National Oilwell Varco, and Eli Gelman, of software firm Amdocs were the only global chief executives...
...Polly Apfelbaum festoons the walls with a series of felt-tip marker drawings on fabric, their bright patterns suggested by a 1950s manual for amateur weavers....
...Scenes were also shot in Charlestown – a Georgian harbour village that grew up around the export of copper and china clay....
...A poet, artist, weaver, furniture and wallpaper designer, writer and socialist, he, too, was trying to escape from the modern city and get back to nature....
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