Diolun Blog

My Flag, painted on wood, was purchased ca. 1995 in upstate New York at the Quaker Museum Shop. I added my sterling silver pendant designs and used it for years in advertising and catalogs. The wooden Flag is today in Maine... Happy 4th of July, USA!

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York had a design competition for its 150th Anniversary. The submission date was June 14th....

Cashmere (or Pashm, pashmina in Persian/Urdu) is said to have been manufactured in Mongolia, Nepal and Kashmir for thousands of years from goat hair/wool…, labeled by the French in the 1800’s as “Laine de Perse…” and Cashmere by the British…   In 2017 I began working on digital renditions (“mixed media”) of many of my designs and I am very happy with the result. Selected “design stories” arereproduced in, (what I hope will be), beautiful Cashmere and Cashmere and Silk shawls…    The Bird (1996); the Flower (with silk cord) (1996); The Flower -5 petals, (1992); the Tiger (1997); the letter...