What’s Up Pasadena!

What’s Up Pasadena!

What’s Up Pasadena!: Features the Pasadena Bead and Design Show, an artisan and craft fair at the Pasadena Hilton Hotel, offering a large selection of handcrafted beads, art jewelry & gems, as well as providing workshops and demonstrations.

The Cashmere Crisis

The Cashmere Crisis

British photographer Andrew Newey has documented the lives of the Changpa nomads in Kashmir, examining the threats to their Pashmina wool production.

Botanical Mind Online: Art, Mysticism and the Cosmic Tree

Botanical Mind Online: Art, Mysticism and the Cosmic Tree

Spring 2020 was to have been an appropriate season for the launch of one of the Camden Arts Centre’s most ambitious exhibitions to date. The Botanical Mind: Art, Mysticism and the Cosmic Tree is a major thematic group exhibition investigating the significance of the plant 

Artisans Learning Ancient Craft

Artisans Learning Ancient Craft

At a training centre in Marrakesh, young people are learning how to keep the ancient traditions of Moroccan craftmanship alive. Trainee artisans can choose from 22 different trades, such as wood engraving, stone masonry, pottery and leatherwork.

The delicate material that takes months to weave by hand

The delicate material that takes months to weave by hand

On the banks of the River Lakshya – just outside Dhaka, Bangladesh’s capital – the sun is heating the tiny corrugated iron factory I am standing in to oven-like temperatures. Inside, under a string of bare light bulbs, six master weavers sit in pairs, barely 

Suzi Click — A Work of Art

Suzi Click — A Work of Art

Los Angeles based designer and artist Suzi Click is a collector. Widely known for her artisan apparel and accessories line, the embodiment of her own, eclectic more is better boho style, Suzi layers both fabric and memory into each of her creations. Her 1920’s Spanish Revival home and studio is