When the two master weavers who had set up the pioneering Dovecot Studio in Edinburgh were killed a century ago in the First World War, they didn't just leave behind an irreplaceable loss in their ...

Designed by one of our most celebrated contemporary artists, The Caged Bird’s Song (pictured below) not only demonstrates the exceptional technical, creative and interpretative abilities of the five ...

Leeds Art Gallery has given itself over entirely to the eighth edition of the British Art Show. A generous gesture, but BAS – organised by Hayward Touring – only happens once every five years and ...

Archie Brennan (1931-2009), tapestry artist, formative director of Edinburgh’s Dovecot Studio’s modern era, and sometime pop artist of the textile world, was an innovator whose prolific output belied ...

Is tapestry shaking off its dusty image? Grayson Perry’s current exhibition at Victoria Miro is a homage to William Hogarth in tapestry, while the Museum of Everything showed the pop art tapestries of ...

Stephanie is the president of Dovecot Studio -- a boutique firm specializing in information architecture -- where she helps a wide variety of clients such as Nickelodeon and the United Nations find ...

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