Goddess of Curtains | RSS Feed http://www.goddessofcurtains.com/rss/rss-feed.xml Goddess of Curtains | Color, Texture, Culture ... Life's too short for humdrum. en-us <![CDATA[Tasting color]]> | <![CDATA[You may love color, but do you smell it? Can you hear it? Do certain words resonate to you as a particular color? Are Mondays white, Tuesdays blue and Wednesdays pink?]]> <![CDATA[Cashmere season]]> | <![CDATA[How many goats does it take to make a cashmere sweater? Why is there such a difference in cost?]]> <![CDATA[An original curtain maker]]> | <![CDATA["She is, in a weird 19th century sense that won't go away, simple a curtain maker here in the 21st century." The unique perspective of Mary Bright, from the archives of The New York Times, "she also experiments, as a poet would, with language:]]> <![CDATA[Runway to Room]]> | <![CDATA[If you have ever wondered about design direction in home decor, look no further than your closet. Taking one's favorite clothes; the color, texture, and styling as inspiration for a room is a sure way to surround yourself with the things you love the most]]> <![CDATA[Wearing the sofa]]> | <![CDATA[Where is the line between the fabrics we wear and the fabrics we put on our sofas and hang at our windows? And who gets to decide?]]> <![CDATA[Foot rub]]> | <![CDATA[Note to self: wear comfortable and weather proof shoes]]> <![CDATA[Sculptured clothing]]> | <![CDATA[Yohji Yamamoto, Roberto Capucci, Madame Gres and Cristobal Balenciaga; designers who create art in dress]]> <![CDATA[Fashion's greening event]]> | <![CDATA[Chloe Crespi's beautiful photography highlights fashion's fund-raising efforts]]> <![CDATA[New Industry: Design Bloggers]]> | <![CDATA[Writers, photographers, illustrators find new sources of employment]]> <![CDATA[Purposeful Art]]> | <![CDATA[One might repurpose a large swath of fabric into a slightly smaller one, easily.]]> <![CDATA[London's Velodrome]]> | <![CDATA[Thanks so much to Dezeen for featuring London's new Velodrome for the 2012 Olympics!]]> <![CDATA[Spring 2011]]> | <![CDATA[A best dressed anything is entirely subjective, of course, but the words describe something that is, overall, consistently aesthetically pleasing in a conventional sense.]]> <![CDATA[Complexities]]> | <![CDATA[Complexities of crenellated paper look as though they have been finely embroidered.]]> <![CDATA[Mood Board]]> | <![CDATA[This is a "mood board" of ideas that one day may be interpreted into fabric designs.]]> <![CDATA[Purses]]> | <![CDATA[I like to make lists of things: how many ways to describe a purse? ]]> <![CDATA[Colors of Protest]]> | <![CDATA[The colors of protest in Egypt were not the confines of black but the colors of t-shirts pulled from a drawer and waved above a crowd ... pink, green and blue.]]> <![CDATA[Web Lingo]]> | <![CDATA[The internet creates new vocabulary as a by-product of communication]]> <![CDATA[San Antonio]]> | <![CDATA[It's not Venice, Italy, but the Riverwalk, San Antonio, Texas, on a misty morning.]]> <![CDATA[Color Social History]]> | <![CDATA[Living with color, and not only wearing it, is an aspect of life that is taken for granted. But our color environment is influenced by many factors that include social events, chemistry, and even geo-politics.]]> <![CDATA[CARLOS CRUZ-DIEZ - Color in Space and Time]]> | <![CDATA["Color is not simply the color of things surrounding us, nor is it the color of form. It is the evolving situation, a reality affecting human beings with the same intensity as cold, heat, sound, and so on."]]> <![CDATA[Indigo]]> | <![CDATA[Arguably, the color indigo is one of the most important colors in the world.]]> <![CDATA[Repurposed Fabrics]]> | <![CDATA[I have become very interested in "repurposing" fabrics; repurposing is a grand way to say "recycling", recycling with a distinct purpose.]]> <![CDATA[Wood Block Designs]]> | <![CDATA[These prints are timeless. Wood block designs used to print on fabrics in Jaipur, photographed by British writer and photographer Francine Lawrence, while taking a textile course on printing and dyeing in India. ]]>