Tag: Japan

  • zwiebelmuster

    zwiebelmuster

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    Kate Davies Designs
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    Nicole Wagler tells us about eighteenth-century porcelain and her sense of place in Meissen

  • happy knitting!

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    Kate Davies Designs
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    A few months ago, a publisher asked me if I’d like my work to be featured in a new book introducing English-speaking designers, patterns and knitting methods to a Japanese audience. I was very excited to be included, particularly as Japanese craft books are one of my secret vices — I am often bowled over…

  • Wool 100%

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    Needled reviews: Mai Tomangi, Wool, 100% (2006) Really, what’s not to like? In a Japanese cross between Bagpuss and the Wombles, two elderly sisters, armed with pokey sticks and shopping trolleys, collect furniture, toys, and other discarded items from surburban rubbish bins. Their house totters and teeters under the weight of their gathered spoils, and…

  • lunch

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    Titch is here. As usual, he is laden with intriguing Japanese snacks. He gave me one for my lunch. could it be. . . . . . . no, really . . . indeed, it *is* a green kit kat. It is supposed to be green tea flavoured but tastes more like a weird caramac.…