Author Archives: Caroline. Z. Morris
Water, Cloth & Pins
This weeks reading, besides the tremendous new Robert MacFarlane book, is preparation for writing a proposal for ‘Ghost Mills’, a Walking the Land exhibition for the Wool & Water Festival in September. Did you know that teasels (teazles, teazels) used for knapping the woven cloth? I didn’t but hoping that I can still get atContinue reading “Water, Cloth & Pins”
Āc Sidu*: Oak Practice
Thanks to the gracious & skilled assistance of Kate Raw, the enactment for Confluence 2019 went ahead. Things are coming together for the end of the month. *(Old English – custom; habit; practice; use; ritual; rite)
Confluence
More Preparations for Confluence 2019
Taking the Oak Gall Dyed fabric and associating it further through direct contact. Left to ‘absorb’ something of the oak. I haven’t made work and shown it publicly in a very long time, so this is getting nerve racking the closer I get…
Further Preparations for Confluence 2019
Preparing for Confluence 2019
‘Confluence’ at the Museum in the Park in Stroud is happening in just over a month and preparations are stepping up for the making of my contribution. I thought I’d share – some are practice runs, others are more intrinsic to the final thing. This was a test run for one part of it.
First blog post as a collections assistant
Tales from the Stores: Mad as a Hatter Following my first museum talk, I got to write a blog post about part of it. I love my job.
Perambulations – St. Augustine’s Oak & Well
During my researches about the village I live in, with it’s derelict airfield and Tudor manor house, I became intrigued by Oak Road. This road used to run from the village out to the Castle Eaton road and was severed by a World War II airfield in 1943. The airfield was in use from 1943Continue reading “Perambulations – St. Augustine’s Oak & Well”
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