I am what I am ...

The other evening I watched a programme on TV which was actually the 3rd in a series of three that was being aired by the BBC. It was probably one of the most inspiring and interesting programmes I've seen for a long while and called Hidden Treasures of ... Indian Art. If you go to the link before 18 March, you can pick this one up [until it's repeated at a future time]. I just wish now that I'd seen the other two which were based on African and Australian works.


Griff Rhys Jones presented the programme very well by introducing an amazing piece of floor textile, housed at Hardwick Hall in Derbyshire, and was actually hand-stitched in India about 300 years ago.

He travelled to India and went to a place called Kutch to learn more about the tradition that is still enjoyed today and visited with a tribe called the Rabari where the women sew their family dowry. They also show footage of a wedding that had been arranged many years before and the importance of textile in their lives right from before the wedding and into their futures.


Whilst in textiles mode, I must send you to look at this blog; Gina is a motivational teacher and maker of stunning embroidered works and posts regularly about this and her life. She is not only a textile artist but can also cook and the other day, quite independently of one another, we both made the very same cake! It must surely show what a fantastic recipe it is and I'd love to let you see the photos I took [because I did] but of course, I still haven't worked out how to download them so will just direct you to this link and you can make your own, or look at Delia's photo of what it looks like [and of course which mine was a TRUE replica].

Lastly, to the people who have left comments and welcomed me back into Blogland following my little sojourn - I too hope that I have returned.

Thanks for visiting ...