The Bakery and Marina today. Few Textiles Woodblook printed from India

 

I'm dreaming of a textile museum.

Ok. It's only one dream, I admit.

I'm also dreaming of a special community museum like the one I conceptualized and inspired in a community where I used to live.

But on a more evolved scale!

And my sail boating island cabin lifestyle.

And Travel to the Silk Road via Japan, Mongolia (train), all over Uzbekistan, collecting, then train to Finland, Sweden, Norway..( some sailing in Fjords there, inward to Denmark, Spain, France, Italy....

Maybe Tunisia, Malta and Morocco

Maybe I'll come back home?

If I have a museum for textiles and a suitable library to build.

:-)

Collections

An angel from my Mexican folk art collection

A beautiful bowl (& gift) is made by my friend Martha ( and ceramics instructor in college).

I have more of her work. Presently she is doing fused glass a lot, and teaches at Normandale Community college in Minnesota.

Below, the b&w plate is more Mexican folk art, shown with two seashells.

The long white one in front is carried in Japanese wedding bouquets. 

Two shrimp are trapped in these for life.

hmmmm....

It's amazing, as most seashells are.

One stunning Scandinavian goblet, and a beer horn from Iittala.

 I also collect some Iittala items.

And it's my year, the year of the ox.

Another Mexican folk art plate. (green) 

It's not clay.

The book in back was my Mother's, Flash Gordon. 

My family had many of these books, but I don't know where they are.

The little clay house is by and from a friend , Marylou, from college.

She is a linguist for the NSA.

Potpourri is in an Iittala vase here, and is primarily tulips petals, and roses.

Two vases are ancient.

 And....... the painting is from Argentina, (from an old BF who traveled there).

Iichiro, thanks.



Mexican folk art links on Amazon
400 Mexican Talavera 4"x 4" ceramic tile Mix
Nevada Tile Mexican Talavera Ceramic - MC (Set of 6)
Talavera Light Switch Plate Cover - Duplex Plate
Ceramica y Cultura: The Story Of Spanish And Mexican Mayolica [VHS]
Mexican Indian Folk Designs: 200 Motifs from Textiles (Dover Pictorial Archive Series)The Ephemeral And The Eternal Of Mexican Folk Art: Two Volumes