A blog about free loom knitting patterns, loom knitting instruction, tutorials, recipes and crafting.
Next up in our artists series is an extra special, behind-the-scenes look into the studio of Maura Ambrose of Folk Fibers. If you didn’t catch our first feature, we’ve partnered with MSN to peek into the creative lives of three super talented and very different artists, and today’s subject is no exception. After spending the day […]
A blog about Saori hand weaving,sewing clothing from hand wovens and many fiber arts from felting to hand spinning to fiber dyeing.
There are a lot of fiber artists out there whose works create a juxtaposition between the traditional and acceptable ‘feminine’ medium of embroidery and the macabre or sexual subjects they choose to depict, but Lorenzo Nanni takes this contrast to a whole new level. His …
Next up in our artists series is an extra special, behind-the-scenes look into the studio of Maura Ambrose of Folk Fibers. If you didn’t catch our first feature, we’ve partnered with MSN to peek into the creative lives of three super talented and very different artists, and today’s subject is no exception. After spending the day […]
For a while now I’ve been admiring the work of Norwegian textile artist Hanne Friis. Her sculptures are created by gathering and bunching various materials (latex gloves, stockings, denim) into these sumptuous, undulating shapes. There’s a bodily aspect to all her sculptures, particularly her work …
A blog about free loom knitting patterns, loom knitting instruction, tutorials, recipes and crafting.
This week I’ve been chatting to artist Allison Honeycutt about her Flesh Suits – a series of adorned undergarments exploring themes of modesty, obscenity, exhibitionism and the appropriateness of nakedness. Allison, tell us about your Flesh Suits series The flesh suits all began with …
For a while now I’ve been admiring the work of Norwegian textile artist Hanne Friis. Her sculptures are created by gathering and bunching various materials (latex gloves, stockings, denim) into these sumptuous, undulating shapes. There’s a bodily aspect to all her sculptures, particularly her work …
6 artists who use hair as inspiration for their art, from Victorian human hair sculptures, to 'hair hats' in the shape of animals.
Claire Zeisler, 1986
Hello Blog Long time no see :-) I haven't abandoned you, its just that I've been unbelievably busy and my brain has been so full of wool that I haven't had any space to construct sentences that didn't start with "Daisy -where's the Precious silk we need another 500 gms of Westerwood for order no 10". We brought 14 or 15 wholesale orders back from Germany and have had another dozen since we came home. I always think we can do it all together, but realised after a week we needed a priority system as we needed to dye clubs and stock for Wonderwool. It was a race against time, we managed orders 1 to 10, all 200+ clubs and Wonderwool stock with no time to spare. Dais and I dyed nearly 200 kgs in 2 weeks both of us looked like zombies, she wrote a whole blog post about our coloured hands - Multicoloured hands I know you've seen photo's like this before, but I thought I'd show you anyway, you can just see her little pink dyeing wellies hiding at the back in all the wool. There was a moment when I thought the wool might have eaten her and her wellies were all that was left. When I cam home at night I was working full time on the crochet triangle club shawl. I had started it at the end of January as I wanted to be ahead of myself, so I designed a motif and started crocheting, the shawl took 3 different colour skeins of Dazzling 4 ply (there is a lace version too) After several weeks of crochet I hated it and decided it wasn't working, so that was 130 gms of chewed up, frogged dog ends. I designed a second motif and had to to start with new skeins as I needed to make sure my calculations were right. I hated that one too, so that was another 300 gms wasted. I hated the layout and kept changing it, I came to realise I was struggling because I was restricted to 3 colours and I've been using as many colours as I want in my recent work. So at this point during the first week in March I begged Homer to send the club members a refund as I couldn't do it. He said "NO" - I had to do it I owed it to my customers, but he promised I didn't have to do another club as I was so stressed, but I had to do this one. He also said it was ok to do my triangle motif as I am very comfortable with it and maybe it would take some of the stress out of designing. So I did! Its a slight variation and my layout worked. But the next problem was the calculations which took me days and days and days, not only did I have to calculate the colour layout to make sure I used all 3 colours in equal amounts but I also had to do the same calculations for the lace version which had a different colour layout, due to the fact I could crochet a lot more triangles with a lace yarn. I finished the shawl in the third week of April, which was good as we were still winding the club yarn. The shawl looked ok and I was resonably happy, I didn't block it before Wonderwool as the dye room was full of wool and dyeing and I didn't want to accidently splash it with the wrong colour. But I blocked it this week and I'm so pleased with the result, its worked far better than I imagined, I hope my club members enjoy it. I'm now working on the lace version, but as a treat for suffering so much stress I am using as many colours as I want. Both the shawls will be in the new triangle book later on in the year. I will NEVER do another club that I have to design especially for, but I am planning a blanket club later on in the year, I'm going to make the blanket first and then fit the club around it. So dear blog I'm sorry to have rambled excuses for so long, I promise to try and to not be such a useless blogger again. Love Amanda
[one_half padding=”0 5px 0 5px”] Sarah Mosteller uses the traditional method of knitting but with wire instead of yarn, creating artwork that blurs the boundaries between fiber art and non-fiberart. The resulting sculptures are powerful and full of contradictions. In this interview, Sarah talks about the …
A blog about Saori hand weaving,sewing clothing from hand wovens and many fiber arts from felting to hand spinning to fiber dyeing.
Get a behind-the-scenes look into Arianna Funk's weaving studio.
This week I’ve been chatting to artist Allison Honeycutt about her Flesh Suits – a series of adorned undergarments exploring themes of modesty, obscenity, exhibitionism and the appropriateness of nakedness. Allison, tell us about your Flesh Suits series The flesh suits all began with …
Since moving to California five years ago, the Los Angeles textile artist Rachel Duvall has been refining an almost scientific approach to handweaving.
Space to Create: An interview with fiber artist Nicole Robins and a tour of her Sydney studio.
Last fall I taught a group drop spindle spinning class, one of the students wanted to move from spinning on her drop spindle to a spinning wheel so she came for a private wheel class. It was so much fun to see my student be sucessful on a saxony scotch tension wheel, a castle irish bobbin tension wheel, and a double treadle, double drive tensioned wheel. She learned to ply , and to use a niddy noddy to skein off her yarn from the bobbins as well. peaceful spinning jill nickolene sanders www.saorisantacruz.com
Here's a sophomore at Berea College in Kentucky. The college is unusual in that tuition is free for its students. To "pay" their way they are assigned a job to work for 10-15 hours per week. They can work making traditional crafts that the school sells. They can also work in the Daniel Boone Hotel, a lovely old building in the downtown of the city.
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When rug weaver and textile designer Elizabeth Eakins and her lawyer husband, Jerry Wigglesworth, bought a farm on the Kansas prairie, he went back to scho
Space to Create: An interview with fiber artist Nicole Robins and a tour of her Sydney studio.
Tis the season for some Spring cleaning. We invite you to bring some of your old clothes that have been buried in the back of your closet in for some TLC. Instead of tossing them out you can give them a new life. This workshop will be an introduction to natural dyes and dyeing techniques. No experience is necessary. We will serve tea, light snacks. The workshop will be from 11am to 1pm at our Chinatown studio. (address will be disclosed once ticket is purchased). Each student will receive one complimentary cotton tee. final sale + no discount codes may be applied
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Space to Create: An interview with fiber artist Nicole Robins and a tour of her Sydney studio.
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Space to Create: An interview with fiber artist Nicole Robins and a tour of her Sydney studio.
my mum and I had some quality time today.......I had some time and she was pure quality......she always is and always was......and besides all that old mother hubbard, she spins like a demon!
BY KATRINA RODABAUGH // A Verb for Keeping Warm is one of the loveliest fabric and yarn shops I’ve ever visited and yet it’s so much more than a supply store for San Francisco Bay Area fiber enthusiasts. This space also hosts community events, book launches, classes, fiber clubs, an outdoor dye studio, a full […]
Space to Create: An interview with fiber artist Nicole Robins and a tour of her Sydney studio.
Weaving center. Safed is one of the four holy Jewish towns and a center of Kabbalah. The Crusaders built a castle here in 1102, and it became a predominantly Jewish town in the 16th century under Ottoman rule.
