A marketing worker-bee by day, a dancer/weaver/botanist at 5 pm – that’s how I would have described myself a few months ago. I think I’ve been bitten by the birding bug, though, so I might have to revise this description.
It’s hard to avoid being at least a casual birder at the Folk School – the [...]
by Paul Garrett, the Folk School's resident blacksmith on March 9, 2009
in Blacksmith Shop
Last week, It was good to have William Rogers here at the Blacksmith shop to teach. This year his choice was “Repoussé”. Pronounced reh-poo-say, the French word meaning “pushed up”, the technique includes working a malleable metal such as copper from both the front and back sides to raise very detailed designs into the sheet [...]
What I didn’t get to photograph was Paul’s Plant hanger that he made for his garden. My camera died the moment I was about to snap the shutter. It was a longer take on the rest of our plant hangers and had a neat decorative twist in the “leg.” At the base, for stability, he [...]
by Jennifer Carrier, Buyer for the Book Room on March 1, 2009
in New & Noteworthy
Storey Publishing has just released Folk School instructor Margaret Radcliffe’s latest book, The Essential Guide to Color Knitting Techniques (hardcover, $29.95), which is an absolute brilliant combination of yarns, textures, colors and stitches. The winning ingredient is the enormous amount of inspiration for knitters of all levels. A stroll through the hundreds of beautifully rendered [...]