Inspired by the intricacies of vintage textiles, traditional costuming, and modern art, as well as the natural world, her work is both sophisticated and organic. But what really stands out is her unexpected color combinations, making the overall design pack a punch.

Working between Melbourne and Brooklyn, NY, Moodie divides her time between designing and creating woven wall hangings, developing weaving kits, and teaching sold-out workshops across the world. “Weaving is something that I am passionate about and get great pleasure from, and so I am able to use my expertise in education to share this passion with others,” she shared in an interview with Diary of a Smart Chick. “The love and inspiration and energy that I get from my students is the most important part in moving this craft forward and creating newness.”

Her work has also gained a cult following of sorts, amassing more than 120k followers on Instagram, and featured in publications like New York Magazine, Anthology, and O Magazine. Thankfully, you can also purchase her woven pieces on Etsy. Moodie also offers DIY kits so you can weave a wall hanging yourself (God knows you have the time).

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“I took a scarf weaving class and was completely hooked,” she recalled in an interview with The Project for Women. “Ever since I have been taking as many weaving classes as I can and reading books and trying out different techniques.”

What began as a simple way to pass the time would soon blossom into her life’s work. Now, with little over 60k followers on Instagram, Shimek exhibits her work worldwide and teaches her learned techniques through weaving workshops.

Over the years, Shimek has become recognized for her massive woven wall hangings. Exploring the fibers’ organic movement, Shimek’s weaving style allows the fibers to fall into an indeterminate pattern that reveals the beauty and vulnerability of her materials. Amongst her acquired techniques are tapestry and Navajo weaving, rigid heddle, and floor loom weaving.

“I wasn’t an artist before I started weaving and honestly felt pretty intimidated to jump in and meet all these people who have been working in these fields for years,” she admits. But she shouldn’t have been intimidated. “The weaving community especially has been amazing,” says Shimek. “All these wonderful people sharing their work and explaining techniques, it really resonates with me.”

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Made from high-quality vintage silk threads, wool, viscose fringe tassels, and cotton threads and cords – they’re simply too colorful (and, arguably, too fluffy) not to want.

Using old weaving techniques, Just adds a contemporary twist to her work by using vibrant color combinations. “As I’m weaving, I usually go crazy jumping on many diverse ideas at the same time like a distracted butterfly,” she shared her creative process in an interview with Sarah K. Benning. “I try to make fast sketches and secure some of the color combinations that suddenly pop on my mind, as fast as possible.”

Born in Barcelona, Spain, she’s now based in Asheville, North Carolina. But you can also follow her creative journey online through Instagram.

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Made from high-quality vintage silk threads, wool, viscose fringe tassels, and cotton threads and cords – they’re simply too colorful (and, arguably, too fluffy) not to want.

Using old weaving techniques, Just adds a contemporary twist to her work by using vibrant color combinations. “As I’m weaving, I usually go crazy jumping on many diverse ideas at the same time like a distracted butterfly,” she shared her creative process in an interview with Sarah K. Benning. “I try to make fast sketches and secure some of the color combinations that suddenly pop on my mind, as fast as possible.”

Born in Barcelona, Spain, she’s now based in Asheville, North Carolina. But you can also follow her creative journey online through Instagram.

The post Your Home Deserves Judit Just’s Handwoven Tapestries appeared first on MobiSpirit.

Having studied within the Interdisciplinary Program of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University and the New York Studio Program, she focused on several disciplines: weaving, art history, printmaking, and installation art – all which inform her tapestry work and teaching philosophy today.

Her work calls for a looser, more experimental approach, and she admits that she very rarely uses a sketchbook, preferring a more intuitive approach to art. “For prep work, I’ll often start with a simple image in my mind or a photograph which then leads me to a palette,” she explained in an interview with Textile Artist. “I’ll also do some random shape collages if I’m feeling very stuck for inspiration, basically just shuffling roughly cut scraps of colored paper around on a black background until I come up with a sequence that ‘works’.”

As for her inspiration, she is informed by her environment as well as the lore surrounding it. “I’m always inspired by my surrounding landscapes,” she relayed. “I feel very fortunate to have lived all across this huge country, literally from coast to coast and in between, and I still draw inspiration from my memories of these places.”

Take a look at some of her incredible works:

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“I am continually inspired by the natural world but in particular birds and their movement within the landscape and coastal regions,” Henley explains on her website. “I love studying how they move across the sky and interact with air currents and wave motion, or their distinctive characteristic movement as they feed along shorelines or flock to feeding grounds.”

Her pieces are made by a combination of dying, painting with pigments and screen-printing onto cotton calico, and then texturing the surface with various materials. Using machine and hand stitch, Henley applies fragments of Japanese paper, found paper (which she handprints), dyed muslin, and bits of silk.

Large, spacious areas of printed and painted surface contrast with small stitched details, representative of delicate birds in their wild natural environment and the contrast between intricate detail and the vast expanse of surrounding space.

The end result is both striking and thought-provoking. Take a look for yourself:

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Graduating with Bachelors of Fine Art in painting from Emily Carr University of Art and Design, where she studied painting and later embroidery, Mior has exhibited her work in showrooms in Vancouver and New York City.

“Weaving is so much more immediate than embroidery, which makes it very therapeutic,” she shared with MONTECRISTO Magazine. After purchasing a tufting gun, she taught herself how to use it. “It took me forever to figure out how it worked. It only works in one direction, and I didn’t understand that part,” she recalled. But now, of course, her whole studio is based around the production of rugs and other hand tufted textiles.

Her tufted textiles focus mainly on plump, illustrated characters that remind of Matisse and Tracey Emin, with a nod to the perspectives inspired by Kazimir Malevich. “The rugs are made to be put on the ground,” she admitted. “A lot of people who buy my work want to hang them, but that isn’t necessarily how I intend it.”

But looking at her work it’s easy to see why people feel bad stepping on it.

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She has developed a unique technique of weaving flowers on tulle that allows her to create beautiful floral wreaths using hundreds of plants and dried flowers sewn into large capital letters. Mixing different techniques of artisanal weaving, her project has a great success on social networks.

Olga explains that the technique appeared to her in a dream. She began by placing dried flowers on a sieve that resembled the net mesh structure. Then, she placed fresh flowers on her creations before realizing that the wilting ones looked like holes in her designs. Now she uses only dry flowers that she buys already dried, or chooses them herself at a local florist and dries them with silica gel. Her projects rely only on seasonal flowers and plants that retain color when dry, and thin stems make them easier to use on tulle. The final result looks inspiring, just like instant poetry.

The post When Floral Art Meets Typography appeared first on MobiSpirit.

“I started to paint objects and people made out of natural elements, like feathers and basket weaving. Using these elements helps to transmit the idea of inter-connectedness within all of us as one, as well as with nature on a spiritual and physical level,” he told My Modern Met in an interview.

According to his website, each painting is inspired by the agrarian lifestyle on his family and friends. Torres “plants” an idea for each new project and “harvests” it at completion based on the lunar patterns followed by his ancestors in Cuba. Each of his artwork is started and finished on a waning moon and he record the ritual with his signature on the canvas.

Check out below his remarkable paintings below.

The post Cuban Artist Uses “Woven” Technique In His Paintings That Connect Man and Nature appeared first on MobiSpirit.

Inspired by the intricacies of vintage textiles, traditional costuming, and modern art, as well as the natural world, her work is both sophisticated and organic. But what really stands out is her unexpected color combinations, making the overall design pack a punch.

Working between Melbourne and Brooklyn, NY, Moodie divides her time between designing and creating woven wall hangings, developing weaving kits, and teaching sold-out workshops across the world. “Weaving is something that I am passionate about and get great pleasure from, and so I am able to use my expertise in education to share this passion with others,” she shared in an interview with Diary of a Smart Chick. “The love and inspiration and energy that I get from my students is the most important part in moving this craft forward and creating newness.”

Her work has also gained a cult following of sorts, amassing more than 120k followers on Instagram, and featured in publications like New York Magazine, Anthology, and O Magazine. Thankfully, you can also purchase her woven pieces on Etsy. Moodie also offers DIY kits so you can weave a wall hanging yourself (God knows you have the time).

The post Why Not Add a Woven Wall Hanging to Your Home? appeared first on MobiSpirit.

“I took a scarf weaving class and was completely hooked,” she recalled in an interview with The Project for Women. “Ever since I have been taking as many weaving classes as I can and reading books and trying out different techniques.”

What began as a simple way to pass the time would soon blossom into her life’s work. Now, with little over 60k followers on Instagram, Shimek exhibits her work worldwide and teaches her learned techniques through weaving workshops.

Over the years, Shimek has become recognized for her massive woven wall hangings. Exploring the fibers’ organic movement, Shimek’s weaving style allows the fibers to fall into an indeterminate pattern that reveals the beauty and vulnerability of her materials. Amongst her acquired techniques are tapestry and Navajo weaving, rigid heddle, and floor loom weaving.

“I wasn’t an artist before I started weaving and honestly felt pretty intimidated to jump in and meet all these people who have been working in these fields for years,” she admits. But she shouldn’t have been intimidated. “The weaving community especially has been amazing,” says Shimek. “All these wonderful people sharing their work and explaining techniques, it really resonates with me.”

The post Meghan Shimek’s Obsession With Weaving Turned Into Her Life’s Work appeared first on MobiSpirit.

Made from high-quality vintage silk threads, wool, viscose fringe tassels, and cotton threads and cords – they’re simply too colorful (and, arguably, too fluffy) not to want.

Using old weaving techniques, Just adds a contemporary twist to her work by using vibrant color combinations. “As I’m weaving, I usually go crazy jumping on many diverse ideas at the same time like a distracted butterfly,” she shared her creative process in an interview with Sarah K. Benning. “I try to make fast sketches and secure some of the color combinations that suddenly pop on my mind, as fast as possible.”

Born in Barcelona, Spain, she’s now based in Asheville, North Carolina. But you can also follow her creative journey online through Instagram.

The post Your Home Deserves Judit Just’s Handwoven Tapestries appeared first on MobiSpirit.

Made from high-quality vintage silk threads, wool, viscose fringe tassels, and cotton threads and cords – they’re simply too colorful (and, arguably, too fluffy) not to want.

Using old weaving techniques, Just adds a contemporary twist to her work by using vibrant color combinations. “As I’m weaving, I usually go crazy jumping on many diverse ideas at the same time like a distracted butterfly,” she shared her creative process in an interview with Sarah K. Benning. “I try to make fast sketches and secure some of the color combinations that suddenly pop on my mind, as fast as possible.”

Born in Barcelona, Spain, she’s now based in Asheville, North Carolina. But you can also follow her creative journey online through Instagram.

The post Your Home Deserves Judit Just’s Handwoven Tapestries appeared first on MobiSpirit.

Having studied within the Interdisciplinary Program of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University and the New York Studio Program, she focused on several disciplines: weaving, art history, printmaking, and installation art – all which inform her tapestry work and teaching philosophy today.

Her work calls for a looser, more experimental approach, and she admits that she very rarely uses a sketchbook, preferring a more intuitive approach to art. “For prep work, I’ll often start with a simple image in my mind or a photograph which then leads me to a palette,” she explained in an interview with Textile Artist. “I’ll also do some random shape collages if I’m feeling very stuck for inspiration, basically just shuffling roughly cut scraps of colored paper around on a black background until I come up with a sequence that ‘works’.”

As for her inspiration, she is informed by her environment as well as the lore surrounding it. “I’m always inspired by my surrounding landscapes,” she relayed. “I feel very fortunate to have lived all across this huge country, literally from coast to coast and in between, and I still draw inspiration from my memories of these places.”

Take a look at some of her incredible works:

The post Lucy Poskitt’s Textiles Walk the Line Between Traditional and Contemporary Art appeared first on MobiSpirit.

“I am continually inspired by the natural world but in particular birds and their movement within the landscape and coastal regions,” Henley explains on her website. “I love studying how they move across the sky and interact with air currents and wave motion, or their distinctive characteristic movement as they feed along shorelines or flock to feeding grounds.”

Her pieces are made by a combination of dying, painting with pigments and screen-printing onto cotton calico, and then texturing the surface with various materials. Using machine and hand stitch, Henley applies fragments of Japanese paper, found paper (which she handprints), dyed muslin, and bits of silk.

Large, spacious areas of printed and painted surface contrast with small stitched details, representative of delicate birds in their wild natural environment and the contrast between intricate detail and the vast expanse of surrounding space.

The end result is both striking and thought-provoking. Take a look for yourself:

The post This Artist Is Inspired by Birds and Their Movement appeared first on MobiSpirit.

Graduating with Bachelors of Fine Art in painting from Emily Carr University of Art and Design, where she studied painting and later embroidery, Mior has exhibited her work in showrooms in Vancouver and New York City.

“Weaving is so much more immediate than embroidery, which makes it very therapeutic,” she shared with MONTECRISTO Magazine. After purchasing a tufting gun, she taught herself how to use it. “It took me forever to figure out how it worked. It only works in one direction, and I didn’t understand that part,” she recalled. But now, of course, her whole studio is based around the production of rugs and other hand tufted textiles.

Her tufted textiles focus mainly on plump, illustrated characters that remind of Matisse and Tracey Emin, with a nod to the perspectives inspired by Kazimir Malevich. “The rugs are made to be put on the ground,” she admitted. “A lot of people who buy my work want to hang them, but that isn’t necessarily how I intend it.”

But looking at her work it’s easy to see why people feel bad stepping on it.

The post These Rugs Look Like Pieces of Art appeared first on MobiSpirit.

She has developed a unique technique of weaving flowers on tulle that allows her to create beautiful floral wreaths using hundreds of plants and dried flowers sewn into large capital letters. Mixing different techniques of artisanal weaving, her project has a great success on social networks.

Olga explains that the technique appeared to her in a dream. She began by placing dried flowers on a sieve that resembled the net mesh structure. Then, she placed fresh flowers on her creations before realizing that the wilting ones looked like holes in her designs. Now she uses only dry flowers that she buys already dried, or chooses them herself at a local florist and dries them with silica gel. Her projects rely only on seasonal flowers and plants that retain color when dry, and thin stems make them easier to use on tulle. The final result looks inspiring, just like instant poetry.

The post When Floral Art Meets Typography appeared first on MobiSpirit.

“I started to paint objects and people made out of natural elements, like feathers and basket weaving. Using these elements helps to transmit the idea of inter-connectedness within all of us as one, as well as with nature on a spiritual and physical level,” he told My Modern Met in an interview.

According to his website, each painting is inspired by the agrarian lifestyle on his family and friends. Torres “plants” an idea for each new project and “harvests” it at completion based on the lunar patterns followed by his ancestors in Cuba. Each of his artwork is started and finished on a waning moon and he record the ritual with his signature on the canvas.

Check out below his remarkable paintings below.

The post Cuban Artist Uses “Woven” Technique In His Paintings That Connect Man and Nature appeared first on MobiSpirit.