More Tips and Techniques for Korowai Weaving
More Tips and Techniques for Korowai Weaving

Author: Robin Hill

Publisher:

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780473257552

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"Designed as a follow on from 'Making your first small Korowai'. Again with lots of photos it covers the different aspects of korowai design and tips for coping with problems. These books evolved from the need for an instruction manual for beginners who wished to learn NZ Maori korowai (cloak) weaving techniques. They are a spiral bound A4 format booklet with many colour photos making them user friendly and useful for anyone who wishes to know more about the skills in korowai weaving.

Mistrust
Mistrust

Author: Matthew Carey

Publisher: Hau

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 150

ISBN-13:

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Trust occupies a unique place in contemporary discourse. Seen as both necessary and good, it is variously depicted as enhancing the social fabric, lowering crime rates, increasing happiness, and generating prosperity. It allows for complex political systems, permits human communication, underpins financial instruments and economic institutions, and holds society itself together. There is scant space within this vision for a nuanced discussion of mistrust. With few exceptions, it is treated as little more than a corrosive absence. This monograph, instead, proposes an ethnographic and conceptual exploration of mistrust as a legitimate epistemological stance in its own right. It examines the impact of mistrust on practices of conversation and communication, friendship and society, as well as politics and cooperation, and suggests that suspicion, doubt, and uncertainty can also ground ways of organizing human society and cooperating with others.

Fun and Functional Flax Weaving
Fun and Functional Flax Weaving

Author: Ali Brown

Publisher:

Published: 2021-03-29

Total Pages: 147

ISBN-13: 9780473549947

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Creating useful and decorative pieces with natural materials is extremely enjoyable and satisfying. Many of the projects in this book can be achieved by those with little or no weaving experience, and there are projects that require some previous weaving knowledge for those who want to extend their weaving repertoire or who like a challenge. From delicate cords for jewellery to rugged hefty thick ropes used in outdoor art, from useful bottle carriers and decorative flask holders to toys for children and pets, window blinds and table runners, mobiles and fiery dragons, or Taniwha, this book shows how basic weaving, knotting and plaiting techniques can be used for the creation of any number of useful, fun, and beautiful items with wide appeal. With its strength, durability, flexibility while green and hardness when dry, New Zealand flax is an ideal material for weavers to create practical items as well as decorative pieces. As a sustainable and biodegradable resource, it is a perfect weaving material for a world with too much plastic.

Mawhitiwhiti Patterns and Woven Bags
Mawhitiwhiti Patterns and Woven Bags

Author: Robin Hill

Publisher:

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 22

ISBN-13: 9780473257538

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In NZ Maori weaving mawhitiwhiti is the diversion of the whenu, or warp threads, from the vertical to create different patterns. This booklet contains instructions on how to weave many mawhitiwhiti patterns and how to create some diferent styles of bags incorporating the use of mawhitiwhiti.

State of the World 2010
State of the World 2010

Author: Worldwatch Institute

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-07-04

Total Pages: 426

ISBN-13: 1134071213

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Many of the environmental and social problems we face today are symptoms of a deeper systemic failing: a dominant cultural paradigm that encourages living in ways that are often directly counter to the realities of a finite planet. This paradigm, typically referred to as 'consumerism,' has already spread to cultures around the world and has led to consumption levels that are vastly unsustainable. If this pattern spreads further there will be little possibility of solving climate change or other environmental problems that are poised to dramatically disrupt human civilization. It will take a sustained, long-term effort to redirect the traditions, social movements and institutions that shape consumer cultures towards becoming cultures of sustainability. These institutions include schools, the media, businesses and governments. Bringing about a cultural shift that makes living sustainably as 'natural' as a consumer lifestyle is today will not only address urgent crises like climate change, it could also tackle other symptoms like extreme income inequity, obesity and social isolation that are not typically seen as environmental problems. State of the World 2010 paints a picture of what this sustainability culture could look like, and how we can - and already are - making the shift.