11 million tons of textiles are sent to landfills each year. We aim to change that by using excess fabrics from other fashion houses to make clothing and accessories (often in small quantities). It helps the planet, and you get a one of a kind Christy Dawn dress handmade in LA.
Want to learn how to make natural dyes at home (with items you likely already have?) This guide has everything you need to get started!
Ariane Dalle puis l'inspiration au fil de ses voyages. Toujours en quête de vêtements, de couleurs, d'histoires et d'objets qui racontent le monde, la directrice artistique des collections Manuel Canovas et Larsen nous ouvre les portes de son univers créatif.
Textile installations in Interior Design show an ongoing trend for the sophisticated and conscious customer’s crave for a haptic experience.
Fabric Dictionary - Definitions of both common and rare fabrics and textiles
Happy Monday! We are starting the week featuring an extraordinary textile artist! Meet Vanessa Barragao! Growing up at the seaside, she uses the connection to the ocean as an everlasting inspiration for her artworks. Her work features captivating coral reef environments in which she merges and combines crafts and recycled materials and by employing old techniques such as latch hook, felting, macramé, knitting and crochet she brings life to her unique and luxurious sculptural carpets, rugs and tapestries. Visit her instagram and site for more of her eye-catching work.
Textiles and fabrics represent one of the earliest forms of human technology, as well as an effective, and not to mention sustainable, architectural..
Well my show has been put back another six weeks – bump in is now 8th april. However Christmas group exhibition opens 23rd November at Rosebed Street Gallery Eudlo – Sunshine Coast Que…
Need I remind you that fabrics can either make or break your project. Read on for more info on our guide to different fabrics and their properties.
A Textile Designers guide to the art of Fabric Manipulation to use in simple craft projects
A Rum Fellow's jaunty, handcrafted textiles, now available with Schumacher in the U.S., also have an important social mission
Textile Artist Lorraine Roy talks to us about her love of natural sciences, developing an artist voice and how to succed as an artist.
Explore Julie Shackson's 472 photos on Flickr!
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Nguyen Cong Tri is a self-taught visionary fashion based in Ho Chi Minh City. As a graduate of Fine Arts from the Ho Chi Minh City University of the Arts, he first impacted the world of Vietnamese design in 2000 when he won 1st prize in the 'New Idea' category at Vietnam's Grand Prix, with his 'Green Leaves' fashion collection. Following this, he began to work with singers and celebrities in Vietnam, styling their photo-shoots and constructing signature looks.
Working on this piece with printed images of bones, a bit frustrating at the moment as I don’t really feel I like it. Some moments I think this will be OK but not when I see it from a distance. I think deep down one usually knows when something is working. I decided today to just play around with it and try and have fun, and that approach has helped. Let’s face facts, it doesn't really matter to anyone but me. Sketchbook page:- I am working on black commercial felt, with painted fabric and, of course, a touch of bandage. I hope some of you had a look at Art Click TV as I thoroughly enjoyed two of their free videos and hope they will continue with the experiment in the future. I am really enjoying looking at the work on this site, and finding it both inspiring and daunting in its wonderful simplicity and authenticity. It is the work of Alice Fox who is currently artist in residence at Spurn Point.
Love textiles, fibre art and contemporary portraiture? Here is our list of 10 Textile Portrait Artists You HAVE to follow.
Image 14 of 28 from gallery of Naturalis Biodiversity Center Leiden / Neutelings Riedijk Architects. Photograph by Scagliola Brakkee Fotografie
Keep things au naturale with this easy tutorial.
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Seen on a new shopping mall, Sydney, Australia. 20101112-IMG_3250
Tightly pulled vertical smocking. Image via Trans.lu.cent» Smocking is a fabric manipulation technique that is generally created by using hand stitching to create areas of tension and release in the fabric. This results in very sculptural
My expression originates and transforms in a melancholy avant-garde universe. I evolve clothes based on a conceptual and sculptural approach to the process through experiments with forms and layers to create unconventional silhouettes.
Artist Ýr Jóhannsdóttir, who goes by Ýrúrarí, broadens our view of the world of knitting + textile design in this DMTV Milkshake episode.
I just found out that my Four Veils were accepted in the big, big Textile Society of America juried exhibition which is in conjunction with TSA’s first ever New Directions Symposium in LA in …
We visit CTTC and its founder Nilda Callañaupa Alvarez to learn about Peruvian Textiles and what’s being done to protect Andean craft for future generations.
Wool might be the most ubiquitous of materials, and a dependable medium for use in any Autumn/Winter collection, but as a practicing designer–how well do you understand wool as a natural fibre, where it comes from and the mosaic history of its production? Following NJAL’s appointment as a Nominating Body for the International Woolmark Prize, it’s time to highlight the versatility and modernity of Merino wool. It's time to snuggle up with a material that has long been out of vogue. After years of decline, Wool has once again become synonymous with the high fashion circuit and its certainly found favour with the industry’s top design houses and fashion's emerging set alike. It comes after nearly forty long years of being destroyed by the trend for synthetic fibres.
The best brands offering sustainably made 100 percent linen curtains for your easy, breezy home.
'Poison Apple' green pleated silk dress with printed silk storage bag, Charles & Patricia Lester, Great Britain, 1994
*How does a museum founded in 1852 manage to still stay at the forefront of ...
Thought I would share this with you. We visit Rye regularly to shop in the many second-hand shops, antique shops and bric-a brac stores. The wife buys a few things occasionally and I take a few pictures but primarily we go there for the 'Cream Tea' we enjoy in any of the dozen or more pubs and cafes that cater for the many visitors. Sat there in the chair she reminded me of poor Miss Havisham from Dickens' 'Great Expectations' who having been jilted at the altar spent the rest of her life in her wedding dress only to go up in smoke when the house caught fire many years later.
In her ongoing body of work, Soft Sculptures, French artist Karine Jollet starts with old bed sheets and shirts, embroidered handkerchieves and second-hand fabrics that she cuts up into fragments a...