A new exhibition has reopened at the British Museum in London: Arctic: Culture and Climate .

Kolam is the Asian art and craft of making patterns out of ground rice to greet the start of each day.

If you are spending your time making quilts how about entering a virtual quilt competition?

Each week an article from the textile collection is featured. This time it is The Fisherman by Ann Sutton.

Each week the blog presents a different article from the collection in the studio. This week, a woven whirlpool...

It is a little while since we shared some pics of the islands. This year the summer colours are absolutely brilliant, in all senses of the word.

The Metropolitan Museum in New York conserved and displayed a unique carpet. The job took years...

Over the time we have been in the buildings in Sellafirth, fourteen years now, we have been looking after the wild flowers that come up each year in what looks like barren ground.

A friend-of-the-blog has sent in a link for an article on thisiscolossal.com which has had us enthralled.

Two exciting things have happened this week...