Ema Shin | Heart and Heritage
Ema Shin is a Japanese Textile artist recognising the women forgotten by history, and honouring herself and her ancestors through 3D sculpture. Read on for more!
Ema Shin is a Japanese Textile artist recognising the women forgotten by history, and honouring herself and her ancestors through 3D sculpture. Read on for more!
Today’s Quilty Pleasures is with Brooklyn-based quilter Zak Foster. Zaks work tells stories of spontaneous moments, reading fabric like tea leaves.
Louisa Hammond is a textile artist from Manchester, UK, whose textile artforms are an exploration of her journey through life.
Harriet Peacock is a mixed media/embroidery textile artist who combines modern and traditional textile processes, quilting, digital printing and tufting to showcase the elements of craft which are relevant in our evolving society.
Record, Map & Capture by Jordan Cunliffe proves that presenting data through textile visualisation is a beautiful way of recording your experiences.
In this issue of stitching it real, our columnist shows us cute pets which have been embroidered, sewn together or knitted.
Slow Stitch: Mindful and Contemplative Textile Art by Claire Wellesley-Smith is an important explanation of the power of deliberate slowness in your creativity. It covers several themes, including repairing with stitch, the cultural context of stitch and the value of considered reflective practice.
Have you got a load of old clothes which are too sentimental to bin but too ruined to use? Using The Mending Directory, become inspired how you can salvage them and give them a new life. With over fifty patterns and ideas, there will be one to suit your item.
Within Unravelling Women’s Art, P.L. Henderson symbolically unties the woven structures of female textile artists and their work. She focuses on the links between the artists she has curated together, examining the messages found within their work, providing fascinating insights into the finer details of female textile art. Over twenty artist interviews back up her interpretations; embroidery, weaving, sculpture and patchwork are all covered, as well as notes on their cultural context, historical meaning and identity within the contemporary arts field.
In this Living for Dyeing column, writer Ailish Henderson explains what is Batik, history, how it can be used and teaches us the basic steps so that readers can have a go themselves.
Fiber Art Today edited by Carol K.Russell is a substantial collection of contemporary textile and fiber art. With over 300 pictures and detailed descriptions of the work, it’s both a beautiful gallery book and a valuable resource for art practitioners.
Courtney Cox is an Austin-based embroidery artist who makes free hand portrait and figurative pieces that cast a critical eye on modern times. Find out more at Mr X Stitch!
