by Cathy Jack Coupland | Feb 1, 2022 | Blog
Mexican artisans have been creating colourful textiles for thousands upon thousands of years – often identifying the maker’s ethnic group or village. Mexican Otomi or the more simplified Tenangos embroidery, is a vibrant celebration of riotous colour,...
by Cathy Jack Coupland | Jan 28, 2022 | Blog, Resources
A Single Thread is a work of historical fiction set between the two world wars, just as Hitler is gaining unprecedented power and adulation. The story revolves around the life of Violet Speedwell, a so-called ‘Surplus Women’, who lost not only her elder...
by Cathy Jack Coupland | Jan 23, 2022 | Blog
The hard outer casings of the Jewel beetle, naturally mimic gem-like precious treasures in terms of utter brilliance and beauty, through their hardy, metallic, emerald iridescence – used for centuries as decoration or embellishment. But in many cultures, they...
by Cathy Jack Coupland | Jan 21, 2022 | Blog, Resources
Jane Johnson is a prolific writer of books for both adults and children as well as being a fiction book editor. A trip to North Africa in 2005 investigating a long-buried family legend about the abduction of a family from a Cornish church by Barbary pirates in 1625,...
by Cathy Jack Coupland | Jan 19, 2022 | Blog
Close your eyes and imagine the sound a cascading silk garment makes in movement. Imagine the feel of exquisite embroidery – the silken smoothness of the long, colourful threads and the unmistakable texture of couched gold and silver, pearls, and other rich...
by Cathy Jack Coupland | Jan 18, 2022 | Blog
East Asian Silk embroidery is a stunningly beautiful art form emerging from China – the ancient masters of sericulture – migrating to Korea, Vietnam, and Japan, with each adding their own cultural and stylistic design stamp to form this unmistakable...
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