"I use things that simply show up in my life," she said, "wrapping paper, letters, pictures, fabric, rusty washers, crushed bottle caps, used dryer sheets.
A fully stocked Ikea store features 9,694 separate items everything from tables, chairs, sofas, bookcases and beds to linens, picture frames, fabrics, dishes, clocks, lamps, toys and the occasional valise.
And where do you find your patterns and pictures and fabrics?
There's comfort but not luxury, an eclectic mix of furniture, colourful pictures and fabrics on white or black walls.
Add a picture or fabric to your light-switch cover.
Next Saturday at 2 p.m. Family art project, with participants coloring a poppy-full design with special crayons, then transferring it onto cloth to make a fabric picture for Father's Day or bringing a T-shirt to transform.
We see samples of cloth now made in Nigeria and Mali, a picture of a fabric market in Ghana, a pipe from Benin — though no cloth survived in the burial ground, and no pipe is mentioned as a relic.
EBay Fashion also lets shoppers search by taking a cellphone picture of a fabric to find similar designs.
It's a thread picked up by the younger artist Nina Beier, in her abstract "paintings" made with scrunched fabrics (pictured).
Neatly decked out with African fabrics, pictures and knick-knacks, Habesha is basic, but much nicer than you might imagine, given that it is above a busy takeaway.
