↓
 
  • View valerie.hearder’s profile on Facebook
  • View Africanthreads’s profile on Twitter
  • View valeriehearder’s profile on Instagram
  • View valeriehearder’s profile on Pinterest
  • View valeriehearder’s profile on LinkedIn
  • View africanthreads’s profile on YouTube
  • View Valerie Hearder’s profile on Google+
  • View africanthreads’s profile on Flickr

African Threads

Valerie Hearder's African Threads

African Threads
  • About
  • Photos
  • Blog
  • Links
  • Contact
  • The Makers

Category Archives: art

New York!

African Threads Posted on November 6, 2016 by Val HearderNovember 6, 2016
New York's Garment district, Mood Fabrics.

This past week we spent 4 days in New York. We wanted to do something memorable for our 40th anniversary and New York was perfect. As our Uber driver said, as he forked over $15 for the Holland Tunnel to … Continue reading →

Share this:

  • Tweet
Posted in art, Fabric, Fabric shopping, Travel | 5 Replies

Telephone Wire Basket

African Threads Posted on April 26, 2016 by Val HearderJuly 7, 2016

We saw this large telephone wire basket at the African Art Centre in Durban, South Africa. Vibrant colour and textur

Continue reading →

Share this:

  • Tweet
Posted in AfricanThreads, art, Inspiration, South African Tour, Textured Tuesdays, Travel | Tagged basket, Durban, South Africa, telephone, wire | Leave a Reply

Embroidery Bearing Witness

African Threads Posted on September 4, 2014 by Val HearderJuly 8, 2016

On September 7th, a fascinating exhibition of South African embroideries will open at the Fowler Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles. It’s called, Bearing Witness: Embroidery as History in Post-Apartheid South Africa It will feature the work of two groups that I’ve been closely connected to over the past 10 years through my fair trade imports, African Threads and my cultural tours to South Africa.

Continue reading →

Share this:

  • Tweet
Posted in AfricanThreads, art, Embroidery/Stichery, Grandmothers of Africa, Social Commentary, South African Tour, Travel | Tagged African Threads, Bearing Witness, Cultural tour, embroidery, Fowler Museum, Kaross, Mapula, post-apartheid, South Africa, textile tour, UCLA | 2 Replies

November Retreat

African Threads Posted on November 24, 2013 by Val HearderJuly 8, 2016

November art retreat.

Continue reading →

Share this:

  • Tweet
Posted in art, Quilts | 1 Reply

Sketchbooks & Journals

African Threads Posted on May 9, 2007 by Val HearderJuly 8, 2016

Sketchbooks and journals are a dynamic part of the creative process. And judging by the new crop of books and web sites on journaling and creative sketchbooks, it’s obviously something that appeals to almost all of us in the creative … Continue reading →

Share this:

  • Tweet
Posted in art, Creative process, Inspiration, Studio, Uncategorised | Leave a Reply

Subscribe to Blog via Email

Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Recent Comments

  • Val Hearder on Silk Swaddling Blanket
  • Gina Jarvi on Silk Swaddling Blanket
  • Jeanne Hewell-Chambers on Silk Swaddling Blanket
  • Val Hearder on Silk Swaddling Blanket
  • Christine Marin on Silk Swaddling Blanket

Categories

  • AfricanThreads
  • art
  • Books
  • Community
  • contemplative stitching
  • Creative process
  • ecodyes
  • Embroidery/Stichery
  • Fabric
  • Fabric shopping
  • Grandmothers of Africa
  • indigo
  • Inspiration
  • Landscape quilts
  • Mapula Embroidery Group
  • Musings
  • My history
  • natural dyes
  • Nature
  • needle art
  • People
  • Quilts
  • shwe-shwe
  • Slow stitches
  • Social Commentary
  • South African Tour
  • Stitching
  • Studio
  • Textured Tuesdays
  • Travel
  • Tuesday Textures
  • Uncategorised

Archives

©2021 - African Threads
↑