by Suzann Thompson | Mar 14, 2006 | Knitting, Life, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion
We’re back from Washington DC, where we were kept so busy by our elderly tour guide, that I was too exhausted to knit. There wasn’t time! My red poncho was admired by the group. One of the ladies is from The Netherlands, where she used to knit all the...
by Suzann Thompson | Mar 13, 2006 | Life, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion
We’re in Washington DC as part of a school trip. It’s great. After a very short tour of the Capitol Building today, we had lunch at the Library of Congress and then went to its Visitor’s Center. It is one of the most beautiful buildings I have ever...
by Suzann Thompson | Mar 11, 2006 | Crochet, Knitting, Life, Quilting and Crafting, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion
With a German mother who knits and crochets, and her mother, and yes, her mother, I am naturally a great fan of international craft magazines. Some German mags have been available over here for years (Anna, for instance). Mon Tricot, a French knitting mag, offered...
by Suzann Thompson | Mar 8, 2006 | Life, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion
Here they are! These are the mosaics I made at Luciana Notturni’s Mosaic Art School. This one is a copy of a tiny portion of the grand mosaic at St. Vitale, a Byzantine church in Ravenna. It is mostly glass, with quite a few gold tesserae. Along the edges, the...
by Suzann Thompson | Mar 7, 2006 | Life, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion
Gold tesserae have a thin layer of 24-carat gold sandwiched between one thick and one thin layer of glass. Ancient mosaicists used gold to symbolize the light of God and to actually reflect light from those lofty mosaics down to the church-goer at floor level....
by Suzann Thompson | Mar 6, 2006 | Life, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion
Ravenna’s Byzantine and Roman mosaics are famous and beautiful and mostly very difficult to photograph, because they are so high or so large. You can find good pictures of Ravenna’s ancient mosaics and their fascinating history online and in books. Better yet, go...
