Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo,Nicholas de Monchaux

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In this article, Cooks examines quilts is echoed in the work of other contemporary artists. She analyzes how references to the how the aesthetic of Gee's Bend quilts lend Black credibility to the art that has the potential to critically comment on the history of race, poverty, and social injustice in America.     

“Troubles Textiles”: Textile Responses to the Conflict in Northern Ireland

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Textiles have been used as protest and testimony, storytelling and memory, from the Bayeux Tapestry to Suffrage banners, AIDS quilts and craftivism. War textiles emerged in some cultures exposed to conflict during the 1970s; for example, the arpilleras of Chile and Latin America, the story cloths of the Hmong people in refugee camps in Thailand, and more recently memory cloths depicting apartheid in South Africa. This article presents the textiles that emerged in response to the Troubles in Northern Ireland. It includes individual responses, collaborative community quilts, and artist-led projects for remembrance, healing, and peace. In Northern Ireland, religious, cultural, political, and national differences escalated in 1968 into the sectarian civil conflict known as “the Troubles” which continued for 30 years until the Good Friday agreement in 1998. The textiles discussed in this article date from the Troubles and the post-conflict (but still deeply conflicted) period since then. Textile responses have not been included in art exhibitions or literature about the Troubles and therefore a unique response, almost exclusively by women, is missing from the broader narrative. Primary research was through recorded, transcribed interviews with makers and analysis of the processes and outcomes of their work.     

河北地区葡萄越冬防寒被覆盖试验初报

为探索埋土防寒地区葡萄安全越冬的有效方法,于2012-2014年冬季分别采用防寒被覆盖的方法,对多个品种葡萄进行了越冬试验。结果表明,葡萄越冬采用防寒被覆盖不仅可以达到预期的防寒效果,与传统的埋土防寒相比还具有省时、省力、节约成本等方面的优势。