Taking the Mickey
The Hopi are considered to be the oldest tribe of America’s Four Corners Region (SW States). The current Hopi Reservation a little way east from the Grand Canyon, in Northen […]
JUGS JUGS JUGS
– Pablo Picasso, 1955. Earthenware pitcher. JUGS for serving ale or cider at special occasions. Globe shaped, often in red earthenware with white-slip sgraffito decoration of nature motifs and rhymes. […]
Through dirt covered glasses
The coconut effect There’s plenty of instances in life when a lie is more attractive than the truth, if not even more believable than the truth. You’ll impress nobody saying, […]
Mythology and mystique
Just as the magic carpet in the Persian tale The Three Princes and the Princess Nouronnihar (from One Thousand and One Nights) could transport its owner across distant lands, the real-world Persian carpet holds the power to do the same through its design and motifs.
A bit about the boteh
More widely known in the UK as ‘paisley’ the boteh motif dates back thousands of years to the ancient Persian Empire. It adorns the columns of the 9th century Noh […]