Thread Spool Vases

I finally found where I'd hidden this beautiful photography by French stylist Vania Leroy-Thuillier, who uses empty wooden thread spools as mini vases for single blooms.

Just to complete my little set of textile vases...

I've been thinking about how you could make the spools water tight so you could use them properly as little vases. Perhaps by using a piece of metal tube sealed at the base with some silicone. I'm not sure, but it could make very pretty table decorations.

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Listening: Marilyn Monroe - Runnin' Wild

Knit

Similar to Mara Skujenieve's spool vases, these amazing knitted ceramic vases are by Annette Bugansky.

Each vessel has a knitted covering of traditional and experimental knitting patterns before being cast in porcelain. This reproduces every detail of the knit, giving the pieces a highly tactile surface which it incredibly beautiful.

Again. Smittened. Would it be wrong to knit all my vases snoods?

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Listening: Elbow - Starlings

Spools

Ceramic thread spool vases by Mara Skujenieve based on the designers interest and love of textiles. I love how the Dutch designer has written the type of thread on the sides that was on original casting spool.

Now I want giant spools just for decorative purposes. Must...wait...until...have...own...space!

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Listening: Fables - Sewn With Your Thread

Love is Blind

Love is blind...or at least let's hope so.

Beautiful ceramic vase designed by Jessica Marie Lertvilai, who collects love letters and transcribes them into Braille. "The Love is Blind project is both coded and an abstract pixilated painting. The attempt to show the crossing of boundaries that exists between language, art and design."

I have a soft spot for Braille, I used to be able to read it - I learnt in college for a design module, however I was embossing it into metal so was reading it backwards most of the time. So my love would have to be blind & illiterate. However, I really like the idea of an incredibly precious and private love letter being turned into a generally illegible relief pattern, which few people could read without a cheat sheet to transcribe back. The Braille protects the sentiment and encodes it. I think that's lovely.

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Listening: Florence & The Machine - You Got the Love

Biro vase

Hand blown from the classic BiC biro, collaborative team Giffin' TerMeer (Jess Giffen & Jim TerMeer) turn the staple of every stationary box into a single flowers vase.

I want a go, I've got loads of useless biros!

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Listening: Laura Veirs - Magnetized