For up to date information on forthcoming workshops and free visits please see the online ARLIS/UK & Ireland Events Calendar 2011 at http://www.arlis.org.uk/

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Here's a good free resource for design students, art educators, or anyone interested in browsing images of art and design. It's the image databse of the Visual Arts Design serivce (VADS), a project of the University College for the Creative Arts in Farnham, UK.
http://www.vads.ac.uk/. The scope and variety the database are wonderful. Images ( Read more... )

 I've been a vintage clothing enthusiast since age 7 or so, thanks to hours spent at the library, accompanying my mother on thrift store excursions, museum visits with both parents, watching old musicals on public television channels, and being taught to sew by someone who learned herself during the 1950s. I obsessively collected patterns and ( Read more... )