As news-gathering departs from paper form and is conveyed instead through the television and internet, the newspaper becomes a nostalgic and old-fashioned object. I describe the beauty of the ritual experience of newspaper-reading by describing the paper as a tactile and fragile object in the language of craft. The pieces in this series are entire issues of The New York Times encased in hand-embroidered cotton muslin.
Lauren DiCioccio's New York Times needlework project gives new meaning to the term "embroidering the truth".
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My favorite post of the day! Great find, The Nag!
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Fabricated news stories are nothing new.
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Neat!
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