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October design news: moon art, forest crayons, celebrating second hand

Award-winning work sounds elitist, but outside the Turner or the Oscars or Emmys there are many prizes which rarely make the mainstream news. This month you could visit the award show for Koestler Arts, a charity which has rewarded the artistic efforts of creatives in the criminal justice system since 1962. Or you could go to Scotland and view the Cordis Prize shortlist show in Edinburgh. The prize is the largest award for tapestry in the world. Excellence comes in many shapes and sizes. You just have to know where to look.

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Tapestry triumphs at the Cordis Prize

If you had to guess the author who funds the world’s largest tapestry prize, may not immediately spring to mind. But the Scottish crime

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