Published on alternate months, Crafts is lavishly illustrated to a high standard. At a time when people are crying out for individuality Crafts is where you’ll find the bespoke and the beautiful. We talk to makers, educators, curators and retailers and let top writers and critics bring you the most innovative ideas, debate and work, both great and small, from the wonderful world of contemporary craft.
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Issue No. 213
Jul/Aug 2008
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Inside this issue
Binding by Angela James
Upfront:
Our regular round-up from the world of crafts
Tanya Harrod on Etsy; Peta Levi remembered; Craft at the Bexley Wing; Stourbridge’s International Festival of Glass; Corinne Julius on craft, design and art; The Bombay Sapphire Prize; The Crafts Council’s Deviants exhibition; Margaret Mellis.
'The Story of Peter Pan: The Pirate Ship¹', second-hand book by Su Blackwell
Features:
By the Book
Originally trained in textiles, Su Blackwell now brings fairytales to life using second-hand books and a scalpel, says Pamela Buxton
Building for the Future
Veronica Simpson gets on her bike and discovers the different methods architects are using to display craftMaterial World
The soon-to-open Ruthin Craft Centre is a quietly daring piece of architecture by one of the country’s sharpest practices, believes Grant Gibson
Bloc Party
As a new exhibition opens in King’s Lynn, Lesley Jackson charts the unlikely rise of Czechoslovakian glass-making under the communist regime.
Reviews
Emmanuel Cooper on Gustav Klimt; Jerwood Contemporary Makers; Skin + Bones; Hugh Pearman on Craft, Space and Interior Design; Treasures of the English Church; Unpopular Culture; and Ecology, Mythology, Technology
And finally
Teleri Lloyd-Jones meets collector and dealer Paul Reeves, while architect Tony Fretton discusses his inspirations with Zoe Blackler
