I’ve been watching Sophie Standings Textile Art for a long time.!!!
Author: Pam Holland
I travel the world teaching and talking.
Photographing and writing,
Sharing experiences
What a way to go.
Corn and color.
Having fast internet is a bonus and we spend as much time as we can catching up on 'things that need to be done" at days end. Hobby Lobby, was our first port of call this morning, then Wally world for supplies. rolls, turkey, hummus and bean dip…. yum. We stopped under a shady tree…
Huichol wool art – Santa Fe Folk Art Market
Huichol art broadly groups the most traditional and most recent innovations in the folk art and handcrafts produced by the Huichol people, who live in the states of Jalisco and Nayarit in Mexico. The unifying factor of the work is the colorful decoration using symbols and designs which date back centuries. The most common and…
Pam Holland Designs and Productions:
Just a sketch, it could be a block, it could be a small quilt. via pamhollanddesigns.typepad.com This is a sketch I did once when traveling the US countryside.
Impressions of travel
Leaving Santa Fe, the hills roll across the landscape, juniper bushes, small trees in a regular teardrop shape dress the hills and disguise the adobe houses that blend with the landscape. A railway line accompanies the road on its journey and a milky sky caps the horizon. The Juniper and pinion pines give way to native…
Korean textile art Santa Fe Folk Art Market.Â
Korean quilting is quite different to quilting as we know it.! What are pojagi quilts? Korean quilts use a different technique than French seams, so pojagi seams have the raw edges folded inside the seam and the back is the same as the front. Quite often the pieces are placed in random patterns. The quilts…
A day to Remember
I sit here at the desk and I'm simply overwhelmed with all we've seen and done today. Lisa and I, aka Thelma, attended the Folk Art Market in Santa Fe NM. Since 2004, International Folk Art Market | Santa Fe has hosted more than 700 artists from 87 countries in the world’s largest exhibition and sale…
Santa fe Folk Art Market 2014.
Beautiful Textiles, hand embroidered, woven and hand dyed. Repurposed beads and buttons create images from Haiti. Dishes from Uzbekistan – Rustam Uzmanov and Damir Uzmanov
A gem of a day in Santa Fe.
Its hard to describe how Santa Fe makes me feel. This is my third visit and I still find it hard to put into words why I'm so passionate about visiting. Its like trying to describe the beauty of the stars, or the crispness of the air on a winter morning. First of all I…
Carrizozo color. – Not Donkeys, Cars
OK, so it’s a strange quirky habit that I have. I’ve written a blog almost every day for 12 years.Somehow it’s my way of winding down and capturing the wonderful things I see and experience during the day. I feel as if the day is not complete  if I’m unable to do it and its…