Traditional bookbinding is done by hand and Moneeza Khan from Lotus Blu Book Art tells us about he she started with it and grew her business. Her dual heritage has been one of her biggest inspirations. She shared her process and how an idea becomes a hand bound book! 

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Follow Monneza: https://www.instagram.com/lotusblubookart/ Place an order: https://www.lotusblubookart.com/stickers

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Basket weaving is a traditional craft and it was a way for Tabara to connect with her Senegalese heritage and she add a bright splash of colour and gave it a modern twist. In this episode, Tabara shares her story, goals and creativity in the world of basket weaving!

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Follow Tabara: https://www.instagram.com/labasketry/ Get one of her kits: https://labasketry.com/ Buy the Baskets book: https://amzn.to/38usbBX

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Kristine Rose-Beers is the Head of Conservation at the Chester Beatty, Dublin and in this episode she shares her career path in conservation and some of the wonderful books she worked on and her role in protecting these historic gems. 

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Jason Seife is known for his painted Persian carpets and this was a great, honest chat about his journey into the arts, exhibiting and his creative process from an idea to a completed art piece. Jason is preparing for a solo show with Unit gallery in London as well for hopefully the start of next year, so if you are in the UK this is a must-see!

Checkout Jason's Work: https://www.jason-seife.com/ Jason's Insta: https://www.instagram.com/jasonseife Podcast Insta: @artilluminatedpod Podcast Link: www.islamicillumination.com/podcast

Diane Hill tells about how she combines bold with the Chinoiserie style and how she paints in the style on silk wallpaper. Her designs are featured in luxury interiors and even in the most luxurious car; Rolls Royce.

Charity work and affordable art are also important to Diane and she tells us how she started doing both and how you can do it too if you like!

Find Diane on Instagram @dianehilldesignand visit her website to support her work: www.dianehill.co.uk/

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Dr. Ruth Siddall tells us about pigments, natural dyes, lake pigments and how you can make your own plant based pigment from onions! We discuss colours and their origin in nature and their relationship in some cultures. We also chat about the Pigment Compendium, World Pigment Day and safety of using pigments and much more!

World Pigment Day https://www.instagram.com/worldpigmentday/ https://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucfbrxs/Homepage/rhome.html https://twitter.com/r_siddall

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Palestinian embroidery (known as Tatreez in Arabic) is very unique and in this episode you will learn why! Starting with the journey of Palestinian American artist Wafa from how she got funding to document this craft to the point where she left her private sector job to do tatreez full time. We talk about the story of Palestine via embroidery and how it is presented to the world in museums. Find Wafa on https://www.tatreezandtea.com/ and on @tatreezandtea on instagram 

Buy her book: https://amzn.to/301QEcW

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Here’s the first interview of season two and it’s with my good friend, artist and Islamic geometry educator @samira.mian ✨ . We chatted about Samira’s career path from banking to teaching and then to arts and how she joined her love of mathematics with arts by being self-employed artist and educator. She gave us some insight on types of geometric patterns and told us why wrong patterns occur. . We also chatted about the ins and outs of living as an artists and educator with the various income streams of teaching online and in person, YouTube, patreon and PayPal me! .

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Season 2 is starting and this is a short solo episode to catch you up when I have been up to this summer and to tell you about some of the changes that are happening to the pod :) 

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