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If you look around in the world today, to the leather art and craft arrangements can you see many more big international arrangements with possibility to partisipations from crafters and artists around the world, in contrast for a couple of decades ago, where most exhibition arrangements was more or less local. Something as fall into […]

”How do I measure up a fairly long thread to my prosject?” is one of many questions which can flicker over the data screens now and then  where leathercrafters meet and leathercraft is  topic. Not long ago, I saw one swedish video on You Tube with the title ”Quiet knowlegde”, as reminded about the quiet […]

The pandemic looks to be passed and the world continue with ”business as usual”,- also what concern leather art and craft. But on this small field ulike in the big world,  was not the pandemic a dead time. New arrangements have arose, and one have diseapeared. Most of the leather art and craft shows is […]

On the net have several leather art and craft sites been visible with all kind of offers concerning leather art and craft – the increasing number is probably due to the crises as the world no experiences because of the epedemic as the Corona virus are origin of. It have brought most of the worlds […]

This years  European Leather Workers and Artists Trade Show ( from now only ELWATS) was arranged in Arnhem, Netherlands  from October 19 through 21 after that two  preciding arrangement was arranged in Firminy , France in repectively 2015 and 2016 almost at the same  time on the year. While it not was arranged in 2017, […]

It  became  question about the norwegian leather art and craft history in front of the Leather Meeting in Allariz  this year,  as the years before,  was arranged on Museuo del Corio by the river Arnoia in Galicia in Spain. I was asked if I could held a lecture about norwegian leather art and craft. ” […]

In 2018 is it 20 years since the industrial museums in Tistedal vs.Halden open its doors. The museums exhibitions then had the title “Bomull- Sten-Sko” ” = Cotton-Stone- Shoes). It constitute  three divisions under the same roof as showed to  three different historical industryes as had been in Halden. And each divison constituted one museum. […]

The Nordic  Knife Associations has  become quite generous in its distribution of free magazines in hope to enlist more members. And not a exception with the Danish Knife Association. I got some magazines from their stand in Ludvika (in Sweden) under Knivveckan in juli this year. Of the content could you understand that the association […]

Pictures from the great leather art and craft arrangement in Shenzhen in China have this summer gone over the facebook screen. But in Europe is it not so funny by the time. It’s clear that it not will be any ELWATS (= European Leather Worker and Artists Trade Show) this year. An even if this […]