NEWS: Craft Inspired Covers

The Postmistress cover by Jenny Hart;  

The Jane Austen Book Club cover by Helen Musselwhite

We recently came across this article on 'Creative Review', about a series of Penguin books that are being re-published, with re-designed covers. Naturally enough, we love them!!

Six of Penguin's most popular recent fiction titles have been redesigned as a set with new craft-inspired covers. The Penguin By Hand series makes use of embroidery, crochet and quilting, with each technique further evoked on paper through the use of some serious embossing...

Book Launch - Cleo: Irish Clothes in a Wider World, Dublin

 Cleo: Irish Clothes in a Wider World

Book Launch: 13th of November in Taylor's Gallery 

 Kildare Street, Dublin

6-8pm

All Welcome

Associated Editions publishing company have kindly invited the Woolly Way and all interested knitters to join them for the launch of a new fabulous book, written by Hilary O'Kelly, called Cleo: Irish Clothes in a Wider World. The launch takes place from 6-8pm on the 13th of November in Taylor's Gallery on Kildare Street, Dublin, right beside Cleo's.

If you are interested in attending the launch, simply email RSVP to Anna at info@associatededitions.ie

This book is about the history of Cleo, the hand knit shop, now located on Kildare Street, Dublin. The story of the shop is a fascinating one. It began in 1936, by the late Kay Ryan and has stayed as a family business, through her daughter Kitty and her granddaughters, Helen and Sarah,who now run the shop.

The book records and celebrates the achievement of Cleo, in commissioning and promoting handknitting and handweaving through an era when few in Ireland appreciated its value. Knitting and weaving have long had a powerful emblematic status in the world-wide image of Irish craft and culture. 

The author Hilary O'Kelly graduated from the History of Dress course at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London. Her research, focusing in particular on dress and the everyday, has embraced themes of cultural politics, identity, religion and emigration. She lectures in the faculty of Visual Culture at the National College of Art & Design in Dublin.

The book is available to buy on the evening of the launch and on the Associated Editions website here:

http://www.associatededitions.ie/?wpsc-product=cleo-irish-clothes-in-a-wider-world-2

Cost: €20

Free postage and packing in Ireland!

For more information about the book contact

Associated Editions

Tel + 353 87 982 8037

info@associatededitions.ie

www.associatededitions.ie

www.facebook.com/associatededitions

Next time you are in Dublin, take the time to visit this lovely shop:

Cleo

18 Kildare Street

Dublin 2

Ireland 

Tel: 00 353 (0)1 676 1421

http://www.cleo-ltd.com/

https://www.facebook.com/CleoLtd

Hands On - A new craft book by Sylvia Thompson

 ***NEW TITLE FROM LIBERTIES PRESS***

Hands On- The Art of Crafting in Ireland

Sylvia Thompson

 

Hands On is a celebration of the abundance of crafts practiced and taught across Ireland. Dry stone walling, hat making, beekeeping, pottery, thatching, cider & wine making, knitting, quilting, leather work, wallpaper conservation – it's all there and more! In full colour, and lavishly illustrated, this beautiful book highlights the profusion of talented craftspeople in Ireland, as well as encouraging the creativity of the readers.

"…the thing about craft, about the making of everyday objects that are beautiful and/or useful, is that our everyday life is enriched." JEANETTE WINTERSON

 You can order it direct from Liberties Press. Price: €25.00.

 

More info here: http://www.libertiespress.com/Hands_On:_The_Art_of_Crafting_in_Ireland/142/

For press and publicity enquiries contact 

Caroline Ph: 01 405 5741 

Alice Ph: 01 405 5746 

Email: caroline@libertiespress.com 

Email : alice@libertiespress.com 

Web: www.LibertiesPress.com

Quiltposium Magazine looking for Irish articles for Spring Edition

Do any of you have an IRISH story to tell?

we are featuring an entire section in our spring QUILTPOSIUM MAGAZINE for any kind of stories related to ireland, irish quilting, the irish, irish ancestory, heart warming, funny and just good ole irish stories!

contact me at jim@quiltposium.com and tell me more!

www.quiltposium.com

Irish Quilting Magazine

Irish Quilting, is a new magazine for quilters around the world. From Ireland, we bring you crafting, quilting in particular. Within our pages, we share the talents, designs, and beauty of the Emerald Isle with you. You’ll find resources, patterns and entertainment in our magazine published six times a year.

Within Irish Quilting, there is a panel made up of a dedicated team of quilters, from varied backgrounds who provide balance and objectivity for direction and content of the magazine.

You an order it from their website, or check out their list of stockists

Irish Quilting,
Berowra,
Djouce,
Roundwood,
County Wicklow
Ireland.

T:+353 1 281 2028
E: letters@irishquilting.ie
B: www.irishquilting.blogspot.com
W:www.irishquilting.ie

Free First Issue

The 1st Issue of Journal of Modern Craft is being given away for free.
What we like about this, (apart from it being free) is that each article, review etc, is available as a separate PDF, so you can just download what articles you are interested in..

Here is some of the details, and their blurb...


Edited by Glenn Adamson, Victoria & Albert Museum, UK
Edward S. Cooke, Jr., Yale University, USA
Tanya Harrod, Royal College of Art, UKV

Print ISSN: 1749-6772
Online ISSN: 1749-6780

Frequency: 3 times per year

The Journal of Modern Craft is the first peer-reviewed academic journal to provide an interdisciplinary and international forum in its subject area. It addresses all forms of making that self-consciously set themselves apart from mass production—whether in the making of designed objects, artworks, buildings, or other artifacts. The journal covers craft in all its historical and contemporary manifestations. It starts in the mid-nineteenth-century, when handwork was first consciously framed in opposition to industrialization, through to the present time, when ideas once confined to the ‘applied arts’ have come to seem vital across a huge range of cultural activities. Special emphasis is placed on studio practice, and on the transformations of indigenous forms of craft activity throughout the world. The journal also reviews and analyses the relevance of craft within new media, folk art, architecture, design, contemporary art, and other fields.