Other stitching: relaimed postal bags + Rugs, Knits and Stitches.
Reconstructed fashion: shape and cut, amazingly structured clothes.
Stitching cafes are cropping up everywhere: RAY STITCH + A stitch in tea-time! Thanks to the growing make-do-and-mend trend, the sewing café arrives in Britain + Sewing Café London The Latest Craze + The Make Lounge + Sewing café opens in Paris.
When my wonderful friend Janet Cooper was recently in Rome, she gave me the book The Power of Sound. Janet and I both share an interest in self-healing via sound, vibration, frequency and dance.
The book is based on the research of Alfred Tomatis (1920 – 2001).
While in the womb, Alfred’s mother was not at all happy about her pregnancy and tried hiding it. Probably because of this, Alfred was born 2 ½ months prematurely and, thought to be dead, was tossed into a basket. Luckily, his grandmother, took him from the basket and saved his life. But all of the negative energy he experienced inside his mom made him a sickly child. At least his father decided to take interest in him.
Alfred grew up and became an ear, nose and throat specialist. His father, Umberto, an opera singer, began sending his colleagues having problems “staying in tune”. Opera singers, singing at their full vocal power, can emit between 110 and 140 decibels. And, since the sound comes from within, said Alfred, even though the “energy of a singer is not comparable to that of a jet engine, the intensity of the sound is the same”. And, since “the amount of time a singer had practiced was directly proportional to the amount of damage to the ear”, Alfred deducted that it was the opera singer’s own voice that caused a loss of certain frequencies from their voice.
Alfred claimed that “the voice contains only those sounds that the ear can hear”. So, if you can’t hear it, you can’t say it. So he developed a method for affronting frequency hearing loss.
Change your voice and you will change your mind.
Motion produces vibration which produces frequency which produces sound. Sound resonates and thus affects other sounds.
Sounds can be shaped into music. Music helps make the blood flow which gives oxygen to the brain. So why not make a musical instrument to play?
Bottle top shaker (Sistrum rattle). Made from a sturdy twig that has been lovingly wrapped in colourful material. Flattened bottle tops make a pleasant jingle sound. 30cmx16cm – size might vary due to the organic nature of this product.
African Recycled Tin Can Kalimba
Pseudo-Tomatis Healing Sounds. Britons speak English in frequencies between 2,000 and 12,000 Hz; the French speak their language in frequencies mainly between 1,000 and 2,000 Hz. Tomatis theorized that the discrepancy in pitches between these languages makes the French “deaf” to English and vice versa. This is the primary reason it is so difficult for Britons and French to learn one another’s language.
Clifford Berryman’s cartoon of Roosevelt as a Rough Rider with a bear cub. The name Teddy Bear comes from former United States President Theodore Roosevelt, whose nickname was “Teddy”.
More ANN SHORE: Ann Shore is the co-founder of Story, an influential market-style emporium in Spitalfields, London + This is just the dreamiest interior I have ever seen! It is the home of british stylist Ann Shore + Story Homewear, where stylist Ann Shore sells natural linens, distressed mirrors, and other bohemian home accoutrements + more.
Craftcation is athree-day indie business & DIY conference featuring lectures and DIYworkshops with leading industry professionals on art, craft and food-centeredsmall business in Ventura, Ca March 22-25 2012. The intent of Craftcation is to provide entrepenurial skills for crafters.
Sheila Paine is an expert on tribal societies and textiles and is the author of Embroidered Textiles: Traditional Patterns from Five Continents and the trilogy The Afghan Amulet: Travels from the Hindu Kush to Razgrad, The Golden Horde: Travels from the Himalaya to Karpathos, and The Linen Goddess: Travels from the Red Sea to Prizren. She lives in England.
My son gave me the book LOW COST DESIGN by Daniele Pario Perra. Intervista a Daniele Pario Perra + Daniele Pario Perra | Low cost design: This volume is founded on a principle upheld by leading designers: the best project is not necessarily the one that is patented, that is created by architectural firms or at the computer by leading companies, but rather the one that springs from the simplicity of daily life. Starting from this concept Daniele Pario Perra presents here the results of a vast research project carried out between Northern Europe and the Southern Mediterranean, in the course of which he documented thousands of examples of spontaneous creativity, creating a visual dictionary that strikes a constant balance between “poetic skill” and “technological skill”. The book at Amazon.
Embroidering delicate stories, Arimoto Yumiko
Sati Zech (German, b. 1958)
Dr Neal’s Exhibition Work
Eclectic hall design using shoe box tops covered with fabric to adorn a wall
Fred Lessing’s teddy bear
Clifford Berryman’s cartoon
Recycled cheese
DIY : Cheese grater pencil holder
