Tag: textiles

Stephanie K. Clark's embroideries are much more than that. Blurring the lines between fine art and craft, she uses her sewing machine as a tool that allows her to "paint" with thread...

There's nothing more comforting than a good, cozy blanket. Karrie Dean knows best. With her business model based wholly on blankets, Dean's products can be viewed at once across a bed...

Growing up, Karen Nicol had her mother and sister to look up to--the two being passionate embroiderers. But when it came to her own creative vocation, it took Nicol some time...

Rose Pearlman’s vocation was dictated by chance, as well as the circumstances of being a mother with young children. With a background in fine arts and a love of well designed...

Raija Jokinen's art sits at a crossroads between painting, sculpting, and stitching. While Jokinen's method of work could be compared to painting and drawing, the paint is replaced with fiber, while...

Merill Comeau finds beauty in the discarded: secondhand clothes, paper ephemera, and vintage linens - all those disparate materials that were once utile and now forgotten. https://www.instagram.com/p/Bn9_rskhI_4/?utm_source=ig_embed Her creative process relies on...

When it comes to her art, Anouk Desloges goes wherever the needle and thread take her. Trained originally as a sculptor, the choice to incorporate textile into her work wasn't a...

Lucy Poskitt's textile works aren't kept enclosed in their domestic realm. The Canadian textile artist has exhibited her work around the world, as well as taught tapestry workshops across Canada to...

Textile artist Nicola Henley hopes to draw attention through her art to the delicate balance of nature and the inter-dependence and connectivity between ourselves and our natural environment. A delicate balance...

Some artists take to pencil and paper, while others employ a brush and a canvas. For textile artist Andrea Cryer its a needle and a thread. Combining hand stitching with machine...