(via EDUCATIONAL BLOG: tapestry-fiberart.blogspot.com) NAKANO, Emiko. ‘Brilliant Feast’ 1978, wool; warp effect plain weave, space dying, coiling, plaiting.
Litter (detail) by Anita Hutchinson. recycled textile art
courtesy of Edge - Textile Artists Scotland
via color of the month « Design Happens
Clockwise from top-left: 1. Indigo plants: Britt Browne 2. New indigo seedlings: Britt Browne 3. Indigo powder: Britt Browne 4. Kenichi Utsuki stirring up one of three dye vats: Sweet Georgia Yams 5. Moroccan indigo: Britt Browne 6.Making indigo balls: Henry Drewal
By Ann Wood, there seems to be a wonderful niche for textile animals made in the same way to this and it’s just gorgeous. The tactility of the fabric chosen and the colours all are just awesome, the birds have the same wonderful characterful feeling that Abigail Brown’s work has.
“This is a photo of Hazel Fellows, one of the women who sewed and assembled the first American space suits produced by the International Latex Corporation—a company better known for making Playtex girdles and bras.”
Gunta Stölzl, a German textile artist applied ideas of modern art into her works like this wall hanging from the 1920s.
“Slit Tapestry Red/Green”
1927/28
Gobelin technique
Cotton, silk, linen
150x110 cm
Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin
via ‘GALLERY OF POEMS’: DRAMATIC ROMANTICISM – African Vibes Magazine
From Vlisco fabric’s 2010 African Wax Batik collection.
