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Lambford

Lambford

Lambford by Jo March http://www.redraggallery.co.uk/showInventoryHQ.asp?iId=7183&title=Lambford+&artist=Jo+MARCH

Houston International Quilt Festival

Houston International Quilt Festival

Houston International Quilt Festival

China’s trillion dollar plan to dominate global trade

China’s trillion dollar plan to dominate global trade

This is a great video that show China’s plan to become a super power and the impact to the United States of North America are huge. Obama was working to slow our decline as an empire and Trump is doing a great job at speeding up our decline.

What makes a tree a tree?

What makes a tree a tree?

If one is pressed to describe what makes a tree a tree, long life is right up there with wood and height. While many plants have a predictably limited life span (what scientists call “programmed senescence”), trees don’t, and many persist for centuries. In fact, 

Disappearing spiral

Disappearing spiral

From: Gordon Kreps “I am new to quilting. This was the third quilt I made. Disappearing spiral Only been quilting for six months”

Ukrainian Easter traditions

Ukrainian Easter traditions

National Centre of Folk Culture “Ivan Honchar Museum” made a beautiful video about pysanky. Pysanka is Ukrainian Easter egg, an absolutely unique cultural creation. It is striking in its elegance, perfection and wealth of compositional variations, ornamental elements, and motifs. On the eve of Easter, Ivan Honchar Museum presents this animated video to tell you about pysanky of different historical and geographical regions of Ukraine. The video features pysanky replicating the ones from Ivan Honchar’s personal collection compiled between mid-1950’s – late 1980s. Pysanky were reproduced by the employee of the museum, pysanka artists Larysa Holovnia & Nadiia Bilotkach. Ivan Honchar’s stock collection of pysanky includes 392 pieces.

View the video here

Dreamtime Sisters

Dreamtime Sisters

Images: Colleen Wallace Nungari, “Dreamtime Sisters”

Why Scientists Are Starting to Care About Cultures That Talk to Whales

Why Scientists Are Starting to Care About Cultures That Talk to Whales

It’s not clear exactly when people developed the technology that allowed them to begin hunting whales, but scholars generally believe Arctic whaling developed off the coast of Alaska sometime between 600 and 800 CE. For thousands of years before then, Arctic people survived by hunting 

Traditional Russian Embroidery

Traditional Russian Embroidery

A conversation about Russian embroidery with Marianna Medvedeva, a teacher of ancient crafts and the creator of the Museum of Russian Embroidery. Directed by Julia Chupina.
Traditions with Marianne Medvedeva, a teacher of old style needlework. She is also in charge of the Embroidery and Needlework Museum (Saint-Petersburg, Russia). Directed by Yulia Chupina.