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1 mai 2009

From my sketchbook: the olive tree, study for a print

This was inspired by the beautiful olive trees I always see in Sicily when go there on holidays. It was supposed to be a sketch for a dry point print, but I'm not happy with the results of the print, so I show you just the drawing. Maybe I'll come back...

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Tags: nature, etching, print, sketchbook, Sicily, holidays, ink, landscape, trees, photography

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5 octobre 2009

I was the lucky winner

This is probably the most gorgeous pincushion ever, and it was generously given to me by Mitch in a giveaway she organized on her blog in August to celebrate the summer. It's just perfectly made and smells of lovely lavender scent. If you want to make...

Posté par Laura Freire à 17:31 - Commentaires […] - Permalien [#]

Tags: sewing, craft, fabric, etsy, tutorials, japanese, blogs, pincushion

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1 juin 2009

Caucasian Folk Costumes

Azerbaijani woman from Baku. The Azerbaijani. Photographer F. Orden. 1897. Girls wearing traditional head dressings. Village of Tubenel. Balkaria. The Balkar. Beginning of the 20th century. Photographer N.A.Bush. Nogai women. Dagestan. The Nogai. Photographer...

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Tags: fabric, Eastern Europe, ethnical, fashion, folk costumes, links, photography, websites

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7 mars 2010

Too late for wool?

These days you can feel the spring is round the corner, so it seemed a better idea to use cotton for my next weaving project. What looks like navy blue in the picture is actually a nice purple colour in reality, but I couldn't get it right with my camera....

Posté par Laura Freire à 17:25 - Commentaires […] - Permalien [#]

Tags: design, textile, creativity, craft, weaving, yarn, scarf

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3 juin 2009

Art Fair at the RDS

A couple of weeks ago I visited the Interior Design and Art Fair at RDS Dublin . I came home with two artist in my mind. This is what I saw in the exhibition: Flying Souls and a Cross, 2009, gesso/oil on board, 30.5x28cm, by Fionnuala D'Arcy exhibiting...

Posté par Laura Freire à 13:25 - Commentaires […] - Permalien [#]

Tags: design, drawing, art, artists, exhibitions, painting, dublin

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10 juin 2009

Screenprinting weekend #1: the Japanese paper

You might wonder what I'm doing in the pictures above, and if you had asked me on the spot I would had told you 'I don't know!'I was again at Liz Nilsson 's studio for another wonderful 2-day screenprinting workshop and the stencil I have prepared for...

Posté par Laura Freire à 18:39 - Commentaires […] - Permalien [#]

Tags: print, design, paper, textile, screenprinting, workshop, japanese

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29 juin 2009

On Kumihimo experiments and creativity

Every time I start learning a new craft technique I always have the intention of beginning with the basics and following the instructions step by step to increase the difficulty of the projects. But I never get too far doing this. As soon as I can produce...

Posté par Laura Freire à 13:42 - Commentaires […] - Permalien [#]

Tags: design, creativity, craft, japanese, braidmaking, experiments, kumihimo

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14 juin 2009

Screenprinting weekend #3: A work in progress

As I mentioned in this post , in the latest screenprinting workshop at Liz Nilsson 's I had very ambitious project in mind, and this was the printing of a square tablecloth (160x160 cm) with a border of my own design (see planned layout in the last picture...

Posté par Laura Freire à 10:08 - Commentaires […] - Permalien [#]

Tags: print, design, textile, screenprinting, pattern, fabric, origami

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28 avril 2009

Experiments with silk paper

I've been doing some experiments with silk papermaking at home. The basic materials are cocoon strippings (gummy silk), baking parchment, water and an iron. The process is pretty simple: Place a piece of parchment on your ironing board and spread the...

Posté par Laura Freire à 11:29 - Commentaires […] - Permalien [#]

Tags: fiber, mixed media, paper, papermaking, silk, textile

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15 mai 2009

Helene Schjerfbeck at the National Gallery

Last February I visited the exhibition 'Northern Stars, Southern Lights' of Finnish artists at the National Gallery of Ireland . My absolute favorite artist of the exhibition was the stunning Finnish painter Helene Schjerfbeck , of whom the following...

Posté par Laura Freire à 19:21 - Commentaires […] - Permalien [#]

Tags: art, artists, exhibitions, museums, painting, scandinavian

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1 juin 2009

Dorset Buttons

One of my latest crafty adventures is Dorset button making. If you visit my Etsy shop you'll see a series of hair clips decorated with these buttons. Dorset button making was a flourishing industry before the button making machines took over around 1850....

Posté par Laura Freire à 10:47 - Commentaires […] - Permalien [#]

Tags: textile, craft, etsy, buttons, hair accessories, tutorials

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30 juin 2009

Souvenir de Freiburg: a mini shopping guide

During my recent trip to Freiburg I spent most of the time walking around and I discovered really nice shops. I started writing down the addresses as a reminder to myself but then I thought that it would be a good idea to share my experience on the blog,...

Posté par Laura Freire à 16:25 - Commentaires […] - Permalien [#]

Tags: cities, holidays, shopping, personal, photography, travel

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12 juin 2009

Thinking origami #1: The Boat

Let me introduce a series of posts where I'll present some of the patterns I've been creating lately. They are all based on origami shapes and are intended as ideas for future screenprints. The boat is one of my favourites and I really enjoyed playing...

Posté par Laura Freire à 11:51 - Commentaires […] - Permalien [#]

Tags: illustrator, print, design, screenprinting, pattern, origami

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11 juin 2009

The crafty library grows

Two new acquisitions for the craft manuals section of my library: Fabric Jewellery by Teresa Searle and Sew What! Skirts by Francesca DenHartog and Carol Ann Camp. I know I should keep my library as reduced as possible, considering that I'm probably moving...

Posté par Laura Freire à 00:11 - Commentaires […] - Permalien [#]

Tags: shopping, sewing, craft, accessories, fashion, books

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10 juillet 2009

An old book

I love Eastern European music, so I was extremely happy when our friends from Antikvariat Mingus in Prague gave me this book. It's an old Czech book about Romanian folk songs, showing a selection of folk music scores with lyrics both in Czech and Romanian...

Posté par Laura Freire à 15:56 - Commentaires […] - Permalien [#]

Tags: music, folk costumes, photography, books, travel, embroidery

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21 mars 2010

UFO attack #1: the cushion

After I moved into the new apartment I planned a massive attack to the UFOs (UnFinished Objects :-) I have around. The easiest one (because it was almost finished) was this crochet cushion I started in Ireland last year. The project was for a crochet-only...

Posté par Laura Freire à 11:14 - Commentaires […] - Permalien [#]

Tags: textile, interior design, craft, accessories, handmade, crochet

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12 novembre 2009

A fibre loot

Last week I visited the Knitting and Stitching Show at RDS in Dublin. I dedicated a day and a half to the show, the first day to see the exhibitions and browse the stalls and the second day to buy things. I thought it was a good way to avoid rushing through...

Posté par Laura Freire à 09:00 - Commentaires […] - Permalien [#]

Tags: textile, shopping, exhibitions, craft, dublin, fibre

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20 mai 2009

Spring cleaning results: my new sewing corner

I love our little (rented) apartment but recently the lack of space for my creativity became a problem. I was tired of having my stash stored in small batches all around the house. Every time I wanted to machine sew I had to set up a provisional workshop...

Posté par Laura Freire à 17:06 - Commentaires […] - Permalien [#]

Tags: workshop, creativity, materials, sewing, studio space

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22 avril 2009

The making of Akka's logo

Hello and welcome to Akka, my new blog. I’m still working on the design so consider everything as a work in progress.My name is Laura, 28, Spanish, living in Dublin since 2006. Before I lived in Milan for three years and in Prague for a short period....

Posté par Laura Freire à 01:06 - Commentaires […] - Permalien [#]

Tags: brand, graphic design, illustrator, logos, typography

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14 mai 2009

Charity shop finds

I found these at a local charity shop here in Dublin. 'Irish Fine Earthenware Connemara' is written on the back. I think they used to be very popular in the 70s. I was looking for information about the manufacturer on the internet but I couldn't find...

Posté par Laura Freire à 14:40 - Commentaires […] - Permalien [#]

Tags: bargain, ceramic, houseware, irish, shopping

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25 juin 2009

Souvenir de Freiburg (part 3)

Apart from being very green city Freiburg has a special relationship with water. It just seems to flow everywhere. They have a river (the Dreisam) and a canalization of it along the old town, several public fountains of drinking water and what is most...

Posté par Laura Freire à 10:00 - Commentaires […] - Permalien [#]

Tags: cities, holidays, personal, photography, travel

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4 mai 2009

Birds

One of the most interesting activities I've been doing this year was the screenprinting course at Liz Nilsson 's studio here in Dublin. The course consisted of six lessons and during this time the basics of screenprinting on textiles were explained, as...

Posté par Laura Freire à 13:37 - Commentaires […] - Permalien [#]

Tags: print, design, birds, screenprinting, pattern

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27 juin 2009

Works in progress

These days I am working on a series of fabric brooches for my Esty shop and writing down notes for new accessories I'd like to make soon. At the same time I am putting together a Google map with nice shops I visited in my recent holiday in Freiburg, Germany,...

Posté par Laura Freire à 19:48 - Commentaires […] - Permalien [#]

Tags: creativity, craft, fabric, accessories, etsy

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25 avril 2009

From the sketchbook to the press

I've talked about my interest on building sites and their geometry. This is a sketch about that theme I did for my etching course at Graphic Studio Dublin . You'll see birds too. That's another thing you discover when you start looking upwards. And this...

Posté par Laura Freire à 10:21 - Commentaires […] - Permalien [#]

Tags: cities, construction, etching, print, sketchbook

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26 juin 2009

Kumihimo

The young crafter has a new toy brought from her recent trip to Germany: a kumihimo tool :-) Since all the instructions in the kit were in German I had to browse the internet for some help to get me started. I learned the very basics with this video and...

Posté par Laura Freire à 10:43 - Commentaires […] - Permalien [#]

Tags: craft, japanese, braidmaking, kumihimo, tools

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