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- Sydney Powerhouse Museum, Love Lace Symposium
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- 18 Jul 2011
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http://www.sydneydesign.com.au/2011/events/love-lace-symposium [sydneydesign.com.au]
Lacemakers out there in Spotlight world might be interested in this symposium coming up at Sydney's Powerhouse Museum in end of July.
- Crafty Women at the Powerhouse Museum
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- 07 Jul 2011
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http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/lacestudycentre/ [powerhousemuseum.com] Apart from the amazing displays of fashion there's also the Lace Study Centre at the Powerhouse Museum (Mon-Sat 10:30-1:30). The picture above is an illustration in lace of the Biblical story Judith and Holofernes and the video on the website link above gives a short explanation. An example ...
- Mathematician Solves Age Old Problem with Crochet
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- 07 Jul 2011
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Science Writer and academic Margaret Wertheim (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Wertheim) [en.wikipedia.org] has used the womanly art of crochet to solve an age old problem in an area of mathematics called hyperbolic geometry, notoriously difficult to model, by using crochet. Yes crochet. http://crochetcoralreef.org/ [crochetcoralreef.org] You can even crochet a model of a coral reef. The underlying ...
