Journal
Field notes, written on the road
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Short essays from the clusters we buy from — process, people and the practical side of living with handmade things.
12 August · 6 min read
How to hang an embroidered panel
Sleeve, batten and the right wall: mounting textile art so the cloth carries no strain along one edge.
28 July · 4 min read
Counting suf from the wrong side
Why the finest Kutch embroidery is worked from the reverse, and what that does to the finished surface.
3 July · 5 min read
Mirrors, cut by hand
Shisha discs are snipped from blown glass and held by eight stitches. None of them are perfect circles.
19 June · 3 min read
Living with old cloth
Light, dust and humidity — keeping an embroidered panel the way it arrived, for decades.