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Tailor bird

art, crafts, embroidery, INSPIRATIONS, know-how
May 11, 2023/by Florence Benita
The pruning bird sews leaves to make its nest, and by the time the leaves begin to wither, the chicks have already been born and left the nest. The...
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Sadeck Berrabah, murmuring

Sadece Berrabah, the choreographic magician
art, INSPIRATIONS, know-how
May 11, 2023/by Florence Benita
"Murmuration" is a sublime show, so innovative with its hypnotizing choreography...Sadeck Berrabah reinterprets the language of the body with unreal precision, highlighting the 80 arms, hands...
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Mending

art, craft, embroidery, INSPIRATIONS, patch, know-how, textile
March 13, 2023/by Florence Benita
"mending" means taking up again, like the ancestral Japanese "boro" technique inspired by the Wabi Sabi philosophy: the idea is to darn worn textiles because we love them so much, rather than...
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The last sentinels

art, INSPIRATIONS, photo
january 10, 2021/by Florence Benita
  Between the two lockdowns i just had the luckiest time to see Jimmy Nelson's exhibition in Paris at L'atelier des lumières and it was so sublime. For all the inspirations...
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Stitching Wisdom

art, crafts, embroidery, beliefs, INSPIRATIONS, know-how
january 10, 2021/by Florence Benita
    Stunning discovery of this video presented by New Century Foundation on the hair embroidery from the Yuan Miao's ethnic chinese population that i admire so much for their amazing...
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Sheila Hicks

art, color, INSPIRATIONS, textile
August 19, 2020/by Florence Benita
As a textile enthusiast, it was a happy coincidence that I discovered the modernist work of American artist Sheila Hicks. Sheila Hicks was destined to become a painter when she discovered the...
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w a b i s a b i

art, beliefs, decoration, INSPIRATIONS, patch
June 4, 2019/by Florence Benita
In praise of simplicity... Wabi Sabi is the Japanese philosophy or art of finding beauty in the imperfections of life, accepting the natural cycle of aging...
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Dressing the soul

art, beliefs, INSPIRATIONS
June 4, 2019/by Florence Benita
  What era are we living in? Between our smartphones grafted to the palm of our hands and our passion for the relics of the past, is ambivalence compatible? Accumulation or...
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Dominoté paper

art, crafts, INSPIRATIONS, know-how
May 29, 2019/by Florence Benita
  I recently discovered dominoterie, which I admire as much for its history, its technique, its motifs and their colorations... At the crossroads between relics of the past and timelessness,...
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Portraits of the world

art, INSPIRATIONS, photo
May 23, 2019/by Florence Benita
  Meet these talented photographers, who take us on a journey to the most hidden of lands. Witnesses to customs and traditions, they pay tribute to humanity...
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