ENGLAND: Expansion of pottery could make 600 jobs, Ripley and Heanor News – The famed Denby Pottery is poised to enter the hospitality industry. Plans include refurbishing its factory, building a hotel, restaurant, warehouse, and outdoor activity center, in addition to enlarging its garden centre. The village-style compound will “strengthen the existing visitor centre as…
ENGLAND: Wedgwood Museum closure condemned by Unesco, The Guardian- Considering the effort England has been making to restore its battered pottery industry, I was surprised to see that it was willing to close a UNESCO site based on the same industry…especially, since the museum is located in Stoke-on-Trent. Boggles the mind. The museum’s collection houses…
Note: Since I wrote this post, legislators in the U.S. backed down. More than 100 withdrew their support of SOPA and PIPA. They will be rewriting the acts and taking them back to committee. Canadian legal scholar, Michael Geist, quoted below, states that the U.S. has particular aims and will continue to work toward them…
UNITED STATES: ‘Absolutely Nobody,’ Discovering Old Ceramics, New York Times – This feature is about a husband and wife team and their pursuit of “freelance ceramics scholarship.” Their experience has been gained through just that, experience, 15 years of it. Their house is full of “full of gilt-rimmed Haviland vases,” they’ve “restored porcelain to the…
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