Read (or listen) along with us. #AlabamaChaninBookClub
Orwell’s Roses by Rebecca Solnit
Solnit offers an endearing portrait of George Orwell, the radical twentieth-century dystopian novelist who displays a capacity for hope through the act of planting and tending to his roses.
Lost Woods: The Discovered Writing of Rachel Carson
Whereabouts by Jhumpa Lahiri
Listen to Whereabouts on Audible—read by Susan Vinciotti Bonito.
How to Tell a Story: The Essential Guide to Memorable Storytelling from The Moth by Meg Bowles, Catherine Burns, Jenifer Hixson, Sarah Austin Jenness, and Kate Tellers.
Congratulations to our friends at The Moth for their newest book landing on The New York Times Best Sellers list.
Read our interview with Catherine Burns, our Alabama sister and Artistic Director of The Moth, here.
Cassandra Speaks by Elizabeth Lesser: “When women are storytellers, the human story changes.”
Listen to Cassandra Speaks on Audible—read by the author.
The Women Who Revolutionized Fashion: 250 Years of Design by Madelief Hohé and the Peabody Essex Museum.
Congratulations to our friends at the Peabody Essex Museum on receiving the Richard Martin Exhibition Award from the Costume Society of America for this exhibition. Tour Made It: The Women who Revolutionized Fashion online here.
And explore our favorite books for color inspiration:
On Color by David Scott Kastan and Stephen Farthing
Pantone: The 20th Century in Color by Leatrice Eiseman and Keith Recker
Josef Albers: Interaction, edited by Heinz Liesbrock and Ulrike Growe
Interaction of Color by Josef Albers
The Secret Lives of Color by Kassia St. Clair
An Atlas of Rare and Familiar Colour: The Harvard Art Museums’ Forbes Pigment Collection
Werner’s Nomenclature of Colours: Adapted to Zoology, Botany, Chemistry, Minerology, Anatomy, and the Arts by Patrick Syme
This is, famously, the book that Charles Darwin referenced to write about the colors that he saw in nature during his voyage sailing around the world from 1831–1836 aboard the H.M.S Beagle. Read more about “The Book that Colored Charles Darwin’s World” via The New Yorker.
P.S.: Embroidery: Threads and Stories from Alabama Chanin and The School of Making by Natalie Chanin arrives this fall. Pre-order a signed copy here.
Embroidery: Threads and Stories combines lessons in design and embroidery with Natalie’s engaging story of returning to her childhood home, the history of textiles in her region, and the evolution of Alabama Chanin and The School of Making. A deeply personal and reflective work, Natalie’s sixth book explores her design ethos, creative process, and the indelible impacts she has made in the textile industry and maker movement as a pioneer of sustainable design.