» The North http://nothing-is-new.com Mon, 09 Apr 2012 12:43:50 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 NO VOTES http://nothing-is-new.com/2012/03/04/no-votes/ http://nothing-is-new.com/2012/03/04/no-votes/#comments Mon, 05 Mar 2012 03:44:16 +0000 KellyR http://nothing-is-new.com/?p=8495
Pretty design for an ugly message. These stamps represent anti-suffrage for women sentiment. The stamps were produced by the Maine Association Opposed to Suffrage for Women, circe 1918. Not cool Maine!

via Maine Memory

 

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I’ve got weaving on my mind. Wooden weaving combs made by Hopi (most gorgeous tool ever), assorted commercial dyed cotton, jar of goat hair for weaving, grass overshoe-twined weaving made by Unaliqmiut Eskimos, woven grass bracelet from Uganda and twined weaving basket made by Tlingit in the Western Arctic. Side note: New Friends have been working like crazy on our new collection coming this March. Cool!

via Peabody Museum

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Y E S . Artist Lynda Benglis painting a floor with 40 gallons of bright latex and pigments at the University of Rhode Island. 1969

via LIFE

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If you like 1970s textiles and Canadians, these vids are a must see. Evelyn recycled 110 sweaters into an Environment for Living, and crocheted discarded video tape into car cozies to costumes. She also developed Family Sweater, which is basically a giant snuggie for family and friends. Note : Her knitting needles are made from drift wood. Heartbeats!

Part 1 and Part 2
Thank you Ben for emailing this gold star to me!
more Evelyn Roth

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Lambda looking good.

Gay rights demonstration, Albany, New York, 1971
photographs by Diana Davies

via NYPL

]]> http://nothing-is-new.com/2011/02/10/%ce%bb/feed/ 0 SOX & POMO http://nothing-is-new.com/2011/01/20/sox-pomo/ http://nothing-is-new.com/2011/01/20/sox-pomo/#comments Thu, 20 Jan 2011 04:14:27 +0000 KellyR http://nothing-is-new.com/?p=6352

Soft, Cozy, Warm—basketry socks from the Artic! And their California-made mates, feathery Pomo basket bowls.

The name Pomo derives from a conflation of the Pomo words [pʰoːmoː] and [pʰoʔmaʔ]. It originally meant “those who live at red earth hole” …
(not hip abbr. for Post Modernism)

via Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture at University of Washington
Thanks for looking out for me AS!

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