At #EndangeredAlphabets I’ve been in the habit of telling anyone who will listen that Nüshu is, or was, the only script to have been invented and used solely by women, but as usual, life is more interesting, and I have been giving out false information. There have in fact been, in one sense or another, at […]
Everyone who knows me knows I like a challenge; they also know I’m happy working with my hands. So I’ve decided, as my summer project, to make a table beyond tables. I’m starting with the two vital elements: wood and text. The wood is astonishing. For a remarkably reasonable price, I managed to lay my […]
Spring has arrived disturbingly early up here by the Canadian border, but this is good news for you as it means my Spring Sale has also arrived early. I’m offering three of my favorite wall art carvings at reduced prices, namely: “Om shanti shanti shanti om,” in the exquisite Pallava script […]
International Mother Language Day, February 21st, is a kind of well-intentioned bureaucratic expansion of the Bangladesh observance of National Martyrs Day, a remembrance of the day in 1952 when five people were killed for protesting their right to speak Bengali (Bangla) rather than Urdu, the official language of the new state of Pakistan. What came […]
