Beautiful Kantha Embroidery

Beautiful Kantha Embroidery

This will be a visual feast of kantha embroidery research and found imagery from around the web and the world. I was doing a little kantha embroidery – to clarify, kantha can just mean running stitch, but I think of it when it is dense and continuous –...
Re-imagining Madge Gill

Re-imagining Madge Gill

Experiencing first hand this morning the power of stitching to bring people together. A lovely zoom with East London Textile Arts and – a project re-imaginging the work of Madge Gill. An open brief to stitch or explore her work in some way.  Madge worked in such a way...
Spacious weaving art form three artists

Spacious weaving art form three artists

I am often trying to incorporate spaciousness and lightness into my 3D weaving. Like I am trying to create art forms with lots of empty space. My experiments haven’t come to much, yet, but, I will keep trying. Here are some artists that do it beautifully with...
Basketry research

Basketry research

A collection of visual basketry reference and research. Above Native American & Indian research, mainly from a wonderfully in-depth book called Apache Indian Baskets by Clara Lee Tanner. Above: Research based on very natural materials, grasses and willows....