When light hits a drop of water remarkable things can occur. It can refract through the water and form rainbows in the sky. Or it can have a mirroring effect, reflecting it back and create small spots of light. Liquid light is a series of experimental optical fiber textiles inspired by the interaction between water […]

Seaweed-patterned textile by Penny Berens

Textile designer and artist Dana Barnes sure knows how to tie a knot. Her latest work, UNSPUN: Tangled and Fused experiments with unspun natural fibers

Here are some pieces of fiber art that I'm inspired by! Grab a cup of something hot, sit back, and enjoy some wonderful websites! India Flint's weaving: Thom Atkin's "August: Thank you Kaffe Fassett": Arline Fisch's crochet Lantern Medusa: Kirsten Chursinoff's Knapweed 3: Happy Creating! Deborah

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Judy Martin's work is featured in Claire Wellesley-Smith's new book, Slow Stitch: Mindful and Contemplative Textile Art. It is published by Batsford and distributed in USA and Canada by Sterling Publishing Company. This beautiful hard covered book can be purchased from your local bookshop or online. The book explores a slow approach to stitching on cloth. The pleasures to be had from slowing down processes are multiple, with connections to ideas of sustainability, simplicity, reflection and multicultural textile traditions. (from the introduction by the author) Judy's work is pictured on page 96 and 97 with the accompanying text. Canadian textile artist Judy Martin uses the idea of daily practice in her monumental work Not To Know But To Go On (the name of the piece taken from the writings of artist Agnes Martin). For three years she used her practice as one might use the daily ritual of writing a diary. The design of the piece refers to her Finnish cultural heritage of rag-rug making (although the piece is stitched not woven). Every day one complete skein of stranded cotton embroidery thread was couched over strips of found fabric from her own collection on to a cotton canvas backing. She says, "Stitching gets me up in the morning. I look forward to spending that quiet time with myself. It's emotional therapy, as I stitch, other things fall into place; the time it takes helps me to be quiet. Inner time goes backwards and forwards. Time is recycled." This private and controlled endeavor as Judy describes it, speaks to me as a visible record of time, making it tangible. it is a dense, material representation of thought and making. There is great craftsmanship visible in the repetition exhibited in the work. As I look at the densely stitched loops and coils of this work, so great in length after three years of daily stitching, I wish I could touch it and properly engage with the physicality of the object. Judy says, "I'm interested in producing something very simple and quiet and marked repeatedly with the human hand. Not because it's a metaphor for anything, but just because it's an object that says, unequivocally, I was here. I spent time with this. Feel my touch." The Manitoulin Circle Project is pictured on pages 116 and 117 with the accompanying text. Canadian artist Judy Martin worked with over 140 people during the four year Manitoulin Circle Project. Four large 'meditation panels' were created during the project: Earth Ark, Precious Water, Layers of Time and Mended World. Each panel carries the message of environmental appreciation and reparation. The work was largely made from donated and charity-shop materials: damask tablecloths and other domestic textiles, including crocheted doilies, women's handkerchiefs and wool blankets. A theme of re-creation and also of reparation through the remaking of these materials ran through the project. Every week during the four years of the project participants gathered in a church hall to work on the pieces, building community and personal friendships as they slowly created their pieces of work. The Mended World panel is constructed using a string-piecing technique. Using a sewing machine, four or five long narrow strips of a variety of textured damasks (from recycled tablecloths) were sewn together along their long edges to create a new striped fabric. This fabric is then re-cut several times and sewn back toether to make a wide piece of new fabric. The project speaks of time and has produced beautiful, meaningful work. as an artist who works with communities, i am always deeply moved when I think about the other work that goes into producing pieces like this. The other work is the conversation, the communication, the slowing getting to know one's stitching neighbour, the memories and skills shared, and the hours of committed thought and organization of the facilitator/artist. Somehow the tactile cloth holds all of this within its folds, layers and stitches. This work is a reminder that people and places mixed together, and the exchanges they have, can produce satisfying results. Other artists featured in the book include: Abigail Doan Kate Bowles Alice Fox Pat Fuller Lotta Helleberg Roz Hawker Hannah Lamb Christine Mauersberger Mandy Patullo Celia Pym Roanna Wells as well as the author herself, Claire Wellesley-Smith (her work in progress shown below) Claire includes natural plant dyeing, working with community, walking as a practice, and world textiles such as Japanese boro and Indian Kantha cloth in her writing about the topic of Slow Stitch. The cloth cover of the book makes me want to hold it all the time. Several projects and ideas are presented by the author such as how to develop your personal stitches, making your own stitch journal and telling narratives through stitch and cloth. Congratulations Claire Wellesley-Smith on a beautiful addition to the growing library of inspiring books about hand-stitching. I am so pleased to be included and so are the women of the Manitoulin Circle Project. Thank you.

Les fibres textiles composent les matières textiles et tissus pour la fabrication des vêtements et se répartissent en deux grandes catégories : les fibres naturelles et les fibres chimiques. Il est important de les connaître et les différencier pour savoir quelles matières de vêtements privilégier.Les fibres naturelles Les fibres naturelles sont utilisées depuis des années dans l'industrie du textile. Tous les vêtements étaient réalisés à partir de matières naturelles avant l'arrivée de la fibre

Aujourd’hui, nous partageons avec vous tout nos contacts dans le petit monde de la teinture végétale et naturelle française !

When light hits a drop of water remarkable things can occur. It can refract through the water and form rainbows in the sky. Or it can have a mirroring effect, reflecting it back and create small spots of light. Liquid light is a series of experimental optical fiber textiles inspired by the interaction between water […]

By developing a new technique that combines textile knitting and weaving, Moriel Dezaldeti has created an array of unique textures unlike any other.

Free motion embroidery creates a lot of scrap threads. I don’t throw them out and incorporate them in my art work. Here are a few tips on how to reuse them.

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Closeup view of one of Carol’s favorite antique Japanese indigo boro!

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This is a quilt series inspired by tree bark. Each quilt represents a differnt type of tree bark. Click through to see which one you like.

Vintage midcentury Swedish embroidery book with beautiful colour plates

Caoimhe Friel is a Textile artist from County Donegal, Ireland. In 2014, she graduated with a First Class Honours Degree in Textile Art, Design and Fashion from Belfast school of Art where she spec…

Lacemaking has gone all organic this month. Here at Adventures HQ I have been captivated by the lace art work of Hungarian artist Agnes Herczeg. Herczeg

1- Gunta Stölzl(1897-1983). Esquema para Textil,curso en Bauhaus Dessau, 1927 2- Stephen Wolfram. A New Kind of Science, 2002 En una épo...

Meeting Charlotte Lawson Johnston at her new Cotswold studio, Christabel Chubb learns why fabrics made using sustainable fibres and plant-based dyes are the natural way forwards

Gordano Textile Artists, from the Bristol area of the UK, is a group of 13 who have been meeting and...

Nanex Company, a Belgian nano coating manufacturer, is helping shape the future by offering unique nano technology based solutions that transform textiles and nonwovens, giving them a whole range o…

Stitching on paper offers an element of surprise... after all, fabric is the expected background. Combine that with bold colors and geometri...

Sunday morning I played around with new stones thinking they were going to be grey but perhaps because it is the bleak mid-winter the stones turned a warmer colour. This piece is inspired by Mark's paintings of stones disappearing under water. He is brilliant at that. For both of us scenes like this bring up whisperings of summers spent on beautiful Georgean Bay. For those of you in Toronto don't forget The Artist Project at the Better Living Centre February 21-14, 2019 Mark Berens will be at Booth 506. Strips of plant dyed fabrics soon to become rocks. By Sunday evening I was happily couching away. I have based the background onto an old blanket and it is like stitching butter. The one thing about this kind of stitching is it allows for mind wandering and as I stitched these delicious rusts and browns my mind whispered memories of my beautiful Rusty Pups They are dearly missed As are their antics and adventures. And then as I prepared this post A photo demanded to be noticed So much like my new stones. I have a teacher who always says the piece you start next should always be informed by the last piece you did. Perhaps this means my next piece will have to be seaweed in the colours of my Georgean Bay stones. But I already have soooo many new beginnings just started! But my mind is flowing with ideas on how to go about a seaweed piece. It is so easy to have many ideas isn't it The days just aren't long enough for their execution! I hope you have a day rich in creative ideas.

Para mim só existe percorrer os caminhos que tenham coração, qualquer caminho que tenha coração. Ali viajo, e o único desafio que vale é atravessá-lo em toda a ma extensão. E por ali viajo olhando, olhando, arquejante. Carlos Castaneda”)

Be Inspired by the incredible mixed media embroidery art of contemporary fibre artist Ana Teresa Barboza on The Fiber Studio.

'The slow rhythm of needle through fabric brings me immense satisfaction. To stitch something is to make a declaration of its worth by virtu...

A blog about art quilts, textile art, graphic deisgn and fine art.

Pour la pochette surprise de ce samedi, je vous propose de découvrir quelques artistes textiles et mixed media. Et comme j'ai eu plusieurs demandes par mail de tutos de chaussons bébés un peu originaux au crochet, (pourquoi moi ? Je n'en ai pas crocheté...

Sharing the journey of my creative mind ;-) I wanted to share with you the very beginning of the pathway of creativity opened up from my journal and form other resources to small artworks.I hope yo…

This crash course covers fundametals of mask fabrics & fibers. Key words: natural, synthetic; woven, knit, nonwoven; spunbond, meltblown, & nanofiber.