by Alice Bulmer | Aug 14, 2016 | Becoming Alice, Ecology, Family skeletons, textiles
It took me a few weeks to get around to finally saying farewell to the Mormor rug. (See my earlier post: Coming to the end of a rug.) It felt really hard to let it go. But in the end, taking it apart was much easier than I had expected. I started unpicking from the...
by Alice Bulmer | May 23, 2016 | Becoming Alice, Ecology, Family skeletons, Life and death, textiles
In my living room there is a beautiful handmade rug. It’s a traditional Scandinavian braided rug, made by plaiting long strips of recycled cloth and then coiling the plaits together and hand sewing them into a flat oval rug. This labour of love was created by my...
