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Zulu Ilalla Basket weavers
A review of the profitability of the Ilalla Basket weavers The research into the Ilalla Palm basket weaving by Kevin Mansfield and Dr Myles Mander of the Institute of Natural Resources, found the following interesting […]
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Local business owner furious after Woolworths’ ‘blatant copy’ of her product
The owner of Ubuntu Baba accuses the retail giant of copying the ‘exact pattern’ of her original design. The owner and designer of the popular Ubuntu Baba baby carrier has written a scathing blog post in which […]
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Retailer Anthropologie ‘deeply regrets’ selling copied designs
US fashion and homewares giant Anthropologie has apologised after it sold goods that imitated an artist’s designs without permission. Read full article on BBC Please let us know if this happens to you. We will […]
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Cooperative production in Bali
A few years ago I visited Bali in Indonesia to see their artisans in action. What I saw was a highly creative and organized industry in what I like to refer to as “Factories under […]
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Ikat Weavers of Bali
In my list of Craft Wonders of the World, the Ikat weavers of Bali, must be on the top of my list. The initial cotton or silk thread is spun on a simple hand-made spinning […]
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How Letterpress Printing Came Back from the Dead
Though letterpress might seem like yet another expression of a society hankering for artisanal, one-of-a-kind goods in an era of endless, identical reproduction, this return to the past is different. Beneath the old-timey patina of […]