Textile wizard Lizzie Houghton is a master at transforming wool into passionate wearable art. She is currently experimenting with hand rolled felt and
Nuno felting techniques with the addition of silks and velvets.
Check out her upcoming workshops in her wonderful studio by the forest.
Here is the exquisitely tactile folk art of Morna Crites-Moore.
Morna loves to gather found textiles to assemble and collage into rugs and
mini quilts. She felts her wool from recycled sweaters and blankets to create
her playful variations on penny rugs and folk art images.
Available for sale at the American Folk Art Museum gift shop, NYC,
and at Traditional Folk Art, on the web.
French artist Mireille Gourbin is an amazing sculptor of textiles.
Using machine embroidery, pleating, devore, and other techniques, she builds layers of transparent materials to create luscious assemblages. She loves to design for interior spaces; creating lighting, screens, and room dividers.
Contact Mireille for more details.
Who wouldn't love Renee's Harris' work?!
With effervescent imagination, she combines felting and embroidery to create vivid "tails" of nature dear to her heart. Her creations are charming beyond belief.
Night Cast
A Balancing Act
Lois and Ed
Caught Up
Contact Renee for more information about her work
including availability and commissions.
Continuing my exploration beyond the periphery, I encounter some fantastical creatures. Everyone should create their own personal monster, or two.
These fabulous beings are the free form crochet genius of Renie Beskin Adams. Renie just brings ridiculous joy to creating with thread and yarn.
"Baby Beak-nosed Monster"
"Ruffled Fork-tongued Monster"
In celebration of tea, Renee's exquisite hand embroidery "Hand Like Wings".
This wonderful treasure from Project Gutenberg is packed with
designs that are as hip today as they were 140 years ago.
Beeton's Book of Needlework by Isabella Beeton (originally published in 1870)
is filled with over 600 tatting, crochet, knitting, and embroidery patterns and instructions. I limited myself to sharing 6. Download the ebook for free.
These stunning and unforgettable pieces were created a few years ago,
yet remain provocative of the "nature" of fashion, recycling, and globalization.
Anda has taken machine-embroidered lace to new levels as a sculptural medium.
She is based in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Embraced by Nature
embroidered viscose, flax, cotton, metal filament, and PVA fabric
Recycled Shells
composition of six figures. palm-tree bark, human hair,
cotton/synthetic thread, transparent filament, PVC foil.
Oooooooh, I love these embroidered pima and sterling corazon necklaces from Peruvian Connection. There is so much love in these creations! I want them in all sizes. All around my house. Probably in my car, too!
Fabulous Miraflores bag of gloriously hued pima roses shaped into a drawstring bag, crocheted by hand. So much detail and intricacy.
Loooove this Petal Crochet Bag. Just charming vintage detail, crocheted pima posies cinched with a braided drawstring. Beautiful detailing on the tassels.
Santa Fe, NM has the only Peruvian Connection outlet store in the country. Not only is there discount, all the one of kind development samples go there too.
