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While researching the story, I made an intriguing discovery. Every February, an Arts Crafts conference takes place at the Grove Park Inn, the Asheville, North Carolina resort that's one of my favorite vacation destinations. Some conference-goers arrive early for workshops on Arts Crafts-style coppersmithing, jewelrymaking, car rental agencies in tampa fl art pottery, car rental agencies in tampa fl printmaking and landscape design. car rental agencies in tampa fl Others extend their stay to embroider with Anne Chaves, owner of Inglenook Textiles in Pasadena, California, who designs kits for pillows, table runners, and clothing car rental agencies in tampa fl and accessories in authentic Arts Crafts designs. Oh, how I wanted to attend, and bring home an embroidered Inglenook Textiles creation!
The Grove Park Inn is just one entry on my list of Arts Crafts-themed travel destinations. You see, I'm also besotted with William Morris, the Englishman who not only wrote and hand-printed books of prose and poetry, but also designed wallpapers, textiles, and other decorative objects. Besides being a leading figure of the Aesthetic Movement, he was also associated with the Pre-Raphaelite car rental agencies in tampa fl Brotherhood, a group of English painters car rental agencies in tampa fl who were inspired by nature and medieval art to create detailed, brilliantly colored works.
At London's Victoria Albert Museum, I soaked up the Aesthetic atmosphere of the Green Dining Room, which Morris designed in 1866-1867. Beneath a patterned, gilded ceiling, blue paneling on a green wall is adorned with leaves, branches and berries. Stained-glass windows depict women holding garlands of flowers, while a frieze shows dogs chasing hares.
At the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., I spent hours admiring car rental agencies in tampa fl every inch of the 1997 survey exhibition, The Victorians: British Painting in the Age of Queen Victoria , and The Pre-Raphaelite Lens: British Photography and Painting, 1848-1875 , in 2010. For Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Art and Design , on view there earlier this year, its companion catalogue was my virtual admission ticket to the exhibition. When I read that the exhibition included a bed pelmet, bed curtains and a bedspread embroidered by May Morris, William's daughter, I thought about that Inglenook Textiles embroidery workshop again.
Not long after that, the mailman delivered an extra-special surprise. After reading about my "Marigold"-lined Morris Utility Jacket , a Sweet Briar friend sent me an embroidery car rental agencies in tampa fl kit that the National car rental agencies in tampa fl Gallery of Art's shop was selling in conjunction with the exhibition. Called car rental agencies in tampa fl "The Beauty of Life: William Morris the Art of Design," the kit complemented a 2003-2004 exhibition of the same title at The Huntington in San Marino, California. It was designed by Inglenook Textiles.
Threading my needle wi th six shades of luxurious silk yarn from Treenway Silks, I used the satin stitch, stem stitch and trellis stitch to embroider roses, leaves and vines on linen. Watching the shimmering design take shape was a much-anticipated treat after a long day.
I still want to attend the Grove Park Inn Arts Crafts Conference someday. Until I do, I'll think about Dard Hunter, William Morris, and my thoughtful friend every time I plump up this special car rental agencies in tampa fl pillow.
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