A new show gathers the brightly woven yarn paintings of Wixárika artist Ramón Medina Silva, known for his elaborate compositions depicting astral figures, holy plants and important ritual objects, all crafted with brilliant threads.
He arrived an hour late for the start of his own show, guaranteeing a bravura entrance as he took center stage in an elegant black robe trimmed with brilliant gold thread.
In fact, the more individually brilliant the threads, the more exquisite the carpet.
From antiquity to modern times the history of saffron is full of applications in food, drink, and traditional herbal medicine: from Africa and Asia to Europe and the Americas the brilliant red threads were and are prized in baking, curries, and liquor.
8. Sivasli Istanbul Yazmaci In this shop in the Grand Bazaar, rectangles of Turkish fabric are piled up to the ceiling and spill over onto every surface: gauzy silks as thin as a sigh, vintage scarves embroidered with metallic thread, brilliant flower-printed cottons.... Don't miss the theater costumes: heavy tunics and ballooning trousers in Barbie-doll pink.
And they carried off the project in splendid fashion, though what came through most strongly were those brilliant formative moments and threads rather than grand, sweeping wholes, largely because of unevenesses among the vocal soloists.
Among the brilliant comments in the sub-thread, here's goodyorkshirelass's take: ClaireA asked if anyone had read a book recently which gave new insight into a historical period.
Rape and its aftermath formed the central thread through Sally Wainwright's bleak, brilliant police drama Happy Valley.
"Actually, the situation is still getting worse," said Benny Sze, whose stall was filled with hundreds of spools of thread in a rainbow of brilliant hues.
Not least because another clever reader (whose identity, I'm afraid has been lost deep on a comment thread) came up with the brilliant idea that we might have a noir Christmas.
