Contents
A Cure for November by Grace Wells
a poem in colour
A Royal Court at Killaloe by Aubrey Flegg
the story of a slate quarry
A Space Beyond Words by Cormac Boydell
on the edge of the western frontier
Angelmaker by Nick Harkaway
fixing a fictional mechanism, an extract from the novel Angelmaker (2012)
Art and Life by Petrus Spronk
musing on life, pottery, calligraphy and the forest (unglazed)
Becoming Real by Eleanor Flegg
outer forms and inner spaces with Deirdre McLoughlin (audio)
Blinded by the Light by Sé Slate
on diamonds and the ugliness of engagement rings
Bowl by Roger Bennett
the story of a simple wooden bowl
Controversial Artist (demo) by the Rubberbandits
a song (audio)
Costume and Narrative: Narrative and Clothing by David Wilcox
Delectably Ed Bing Lee by Susan Zelouf
a fiber rich diet
Exhibition Review Egg Fight: Yinka Shonibare MBE by Joseph McBrinn
colonial textiles through the lens of Gulliver’s Travels
How do you Repair a Weaving Flaw by Joke Robaard
the gap between fabricated language and real fabric: in dialogue
Ice Age Art by Anthony OBrien
reflecting on an exhibition at the British Museum
Inhale/Exhale by Jessica Hemmings
in response to breathing fabric forms
Liam Flynn by Roger Bennett
a profile of the artist in turned wood
Lost Mittens by Heidi Julavits
a quest
Meet the Nameless Thing by Deirdre Sullivan
a short story spun from straw
Mystery by Glenn Adamson
the malleable history of cast iron, an extract from The Invention of Craft (2013)
Plates on Walls and Pots and Plinths by Gemma Tipton
a critical eye cast on the social life of breakables
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
in need of a wheelbarrow
Sentient Glass by Patrick Chapman
a poem in glass
Sermon in Wood by Jennifer Flegg
in memory of our friend and colleague
Shaven Heads and Golden Skullcaps by Nicola Gordon Bowe
a journey through a stained glass window, from Wilhelmina Geddes: Life and Work (2016)
Solar Eclipse by Enda Wyley
a poem in linoleum and light
The ABC Con by Carlo Gébler
a short story with matchsticks
The Celluloid Angel by Patrick Chapman
a poem in mixed media
The Coat by Grace Wells
a real-life story of ghosts, ghost writing, and magic woven into cloth
The Gift by John Hutchinson
a brief essay on creative giving
The Last Sane Man by Tanya Harrod
a biographical extract from The Last Sane Man – Michael Cardew – Modern Pots Colonialism and Culture (2012)
The Making of Porcelain by Vona Groarke
a poem in porcelain
The Map is not the Territory by Susan Maxwell
a short story about frustration, serendipity, and bookbinding
The Pattern by Paula Meehan
a poem in pure lambswool
The Perfect by Freddie Robins
one honest artist's statement unleashed
The Rabbit by Caitríona Ní Mhurchú
a spoken reflection on the skinning of rabbits (audio)
The Shirt Collar by Hans Christian Andersen
a nineteenth-century tale of starch and sweethearts
The Tao of Letterpress by Scott Coombs
a mediation on the pain and delight of printing
Three Transparencies by Toyo Ito
an architect building transparencies
Troubled Light by Eleanor Flegg
firing a kiln with the potter Jack Doherty (a white-knuckle ride)
Turned Tangible to the Eye by Guillemette Bolens
an academic turns to clay
Wee Chair by Glenn Hooper
on rescue and restoration
When the Bough Breaks by Catherine Ann Cullen
a poem in wood
100% Cotton by Pamela Johnston
a poem on cotton (audio)