Yes, yes,
this sort of clueless OCD editing is quite a problem. But the Wikipedia article I originated on women’s writing in English is referred to in the The New York Review of Books, and that … Continue reading
19thc knitting online
Digitized texts from Richard Rutt’s collection at the Winchester School of Art, University of Southhampton. The same library holds the Montse Stanley Collection and the Jane Waller Collection, all part … Continue reading
Breaking my slack-arsed silence
to post this marvellous story about a series of beautiful miniature paper sculptures appearing in various bookish locations in Scotland:
Further
to that last, thought I would mention the knitted skeleton and the crocheted apartment. Though I will always have a soft spot for the modest knitted dissected frog.
Well that was unexpected
Alicia Ross’s Love Swing (2006), “a piece that speaks to the wavering stability between woman as nurturer and woman as object of sexual desire.” Don’t know what the yarn is … Continue reading
Linkorama
Christopher Hitchens on the connections between literary voice, and literal voice. “Novel Academic Novels“, Emily Toth, The Chronicle of Higher Education (5 June/11): reading list that prompted me to download Terry … Continue reading
On public intellectuals
From “Why don’t we love our intellectuals?” John Naughton, The Observer (8 May 2011): So let us cast off the inferiority complex towards the cerebral continent and move on to … Continue reading
Typography and yarn, together at last
ow this is fabulous: Susette Newberry has been working on an abecedarium of knitted letters. Nothing posted since “T” last November; assuming “U” will be jaw-dropping when it comes. Thanks … Continue reading
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