“Vula amehlo” (open your eyes) is a powerful Zulu expression that alerts us what’s new. Our image features Sho Madjozi, a revolutionary new creative figure in South Africa who celebrates the Tsonga culture from her region of Limpopo, especially the enlivening…

“In the circle of life, we are present because we are the past, and for this reason, the future. It is impossible to escape this, and it cannot be forgotten. To forget is to lose the memory of the future.” Elicura Chihuailaf, Mapuche poet Our final issue…

Niyoka Bundle shares a recipe that combines Gunditjmara and English stories.  

Maryam Mohamadi uses a traditional craft of felt hat-making to produce home decor for Iranian homes.

In the seventh Reinventing the Wheel talk, Ezra Shales considers how we should value craft found in everyday work and life.See https://garlandmag.com/wheel

Maryam Mohamadi uses a traditional craft of felt hat-making to produce home decor for Iranian homes.

This issue navigates a path between East and West. We try to avoid the one-way paths: West-bound progress and East-bound orientalism. Our path follows a life

We share a film that documents the life of a master embroiderer, Zahra Mohseni, inspired by the nature of Khorasan, Iran

Kaamya Sharma is an academic who has recently turned knowledge worker for the crafts. We speak to her at home in Madurai, after leaving a secure position at the Institute of Technology, Jodhpur, and embracing an independent practice building technologies…

The vibrancy of embroidery as an art form has been one of the real discoveries in our journey.

See https://garlandmag.com/issue-26/

Atefe Mirsane uncovers the splendid couture of Sanaz Nataj, which draws on Iran's rich culture of village crafts.