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THREADS OF TIME
Home Beautiful
|August 2025
Artist and textile designer Barbara O'Donovan crafts decor and photographic pieces that feel like whispers from the past, brought beautifully into the present
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Sitting quietly in a country church as a child, Barbara O'Donovan would gaze up at the melancholy faces of saints around the walls, illuminated by candlelight, and be captivated. "Those images never really leave you," she reflects.
This story is from the August 2025 edition of Home Beautiful.
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