This was lovely, especially as a chance to direct people towards Elizabeth Parker's Sampler, a personal obsession and the best thing in the V&A.
‘The Place of Shetland Knitting’ in Textile: Cloth and Culture
My article 'The Place of Shetland Knitting' is now available in the journal Textile: Cloth and Culture. Abstract Shetland has become synonymous with certain kinds of knit textiles, which have influenced the development of its landscape, economy, and relationship to other places. Three distinct elements are important when considering Shetland knitting in relation to place: … Continue reading ‘The Place of Shetland Knitting’ in Textile: Cloth and Culture
Glasgow Review of Books
Poem: Leisure Waters
Shoormal Conference
Shoormal Conference call for submissions flyer New coasts and shorelines: shifting sands in the creative economy Mareel, Shetland, Wed 18 to Sat 21 Sep 2019 The Centre for Rural Creativity at Shetland College UHI and Shetland Arts Development Agency are inviting creative practitioners, researchers, professionals and arts organisations to join us in exploring, creating and … Continue reading Shoormal Conference
Review of Amy Twigger Holroyd’s ‘Folk Fashion’
In Textile: Cloth and Culture https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14759756.2018.1505824
The Tangerine
https://twitter.com/thetangerinemag/status/1071410748046405632 Issue 7 of brilliant Belfast magazine The Tangerine is impending already! Thanks to Caitlin Newby for taking my two poems. I'm sad to miss the launch (8pm Friday 14/12/18) - it'll be a good night at the Sunflower.
Review of Ocejo, Richard E.2017. Masters of craft: old jobs in the new urban economy. Princeton, NJ/Woodstock: Princeton University Press. 344 pp. Hb.: £19.60. ISBN: 9780691165493.
Review in Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale : https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1469-8676.12557
