mem_somervilleFeb 9, 2025

The #lace segment that ran today is now available to view on the web.

My heart is broken that they showed only a smidge of #IpswichLace and didn't even say its name....sigh.

#BobbinLace #Needlelace #IOLI #IrishLace #Idrija #TextileHistory #RBG

https://www.cbsnews.com/video/weaving-a-fascination-for-lace/

Weaving a fascination for lace

A delicate jewel among textiles, lace is an elegant and deceptively simple creation whose appeal has been spun for centuries. Correspondent Lee Cowan teases the threads of the misunderstood history of lace, and talks with some of the hundreds of lacemakers who shared their craft at the annual convention of the International Organization of Lace, Inc.

CBS News
Nexus Research GroupOct 7, 2024

🌍 Sometimes, for really understanding Geography, we have to climb mountains, get underground in old mines, and crawl through ravines.

📷 Here are some images from the excursion, where Tobias Hank & Christoph Heinzeller have taken their students on a 1500km travel up, underneath and across the #Alps.

💡 At the #Pasterze glacier, the former mining city #Idrija, the karstic caves of Škocjan, and the cliffs of #Duino, the students experienced Geography first-hand.

#geography #research #fieldtrip

KAP Jasa - kite team SloveniaNov 7, 2022

A kite aerial story about a huge crack in the ground, about a hill, a polje, a river, and a village.

http://kapjasa.si/en/it-cracked-in-the-middle-miocene/

#kiteaerialphotography #kite #Miocene #fault #IdrijaFault #Idrija #aerial #Planina #Jakovica #planinskopolje #karst #geology #hill #field #river #Unica #Slovenia