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]]>Robinson has been involved in the textile and decoration industry for two decades and has developed a deep appreciation for fabric art. This prompted her to start weaving and experimenting with various different methods and techniques related to fibers and fabric. The one that she grew particularly fond of was passementerie.
Originating in France in the 16th century, passementerie is an art form that focuses on the creation of elaborate trimmings by using colorful fabric and beads. These trimmings are usually employed as decoration for clothes or furniture.
Robinson’s passementerie works can be used for their original purpose but also as standalone works of art. Most of her pieces are presented in a wooden frame, allowing the viewer to appreciate their complexity.
“I find myself constantly experimenting and learning new techniques, using primarily all-natural fibers,” she explained in a recent chat with Colossal. “I also love adding repurposed items like knitting needles and re-spun fibers and finishing weavings with hand-sewn details. It’s the details that draw you into an artwork that appeal to me.”
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]]>According to small-business owner Karrie Dean, creating throw blankets makes her truly happy, which comes across in each of her designs. Made in Kansas and produced by a small family-operated knitting mill on the East Coast, her throws are entirely ethically produced—from recycled cotton to the hand-dyed linen, to the American-made wool, to the locally-produced alpaca.
“My approach to running my business is done with the same ethics and creativity that I put into designing throws,” writes Dean on her website. “I fully embrace the concept of small business and slow design.”
But being a small business also means micromanaging the entire operation, from design to shipping. “One day you’re taking photos or designing things, and on another day you’re bookkeeping or invoicing,” Dean shared in an interview with The Harbinger. “It’s nice to have a balance where every day can look a little bit different.”
According to Dean, the past year has also seen more customers seeking comfort through her blankets. Some even send her blankets to COVID patients, as a way of helping them get through it. “It’s made [my work] more meaningful,” Dean reflected. “A throw is something cozy that you can grab and hold onto, especially for people who are by themselves.”
Add some comfort to your home or send one to your friend, by heading to Dean’s online shop.
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]]>Her finished pieces, while observing the quiet beauty of the overlooked, celebrate the skill, dexterity, and creative problem solving of people who make things.
“I’ve always enjoyed making things,” says Jo Gibbs. “I have a real appreciation of color; I love fabric and the immediacy of working with textiles. It is the process that captures me, drawing a line with stitch, being able to move the line, again and again, the ability to vary the color or intensity of the mark.”
Situated at a crossroads between arts and crafts, Jo Gibbs’ work has received critical acclaim and examples of her work are in The Victoria and Albert Museum, The Crafts Council Collection, and The Museum of Fine Art in Houston. She has also frequently appeared in national and international press such as Elle, Embroidery, Marie Claire, The Telegraph, The Independent, and Vogue.
“I’m very interested in finding new audiences and telling different stories perhaps by working with distinctive groups or museum collections,” notes Jo Gibbs. “I’ve found the stories I tell, although extremely personal are also universal.”
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]]>Her work often features embroidered animals that shimmer and sparkle. “I create ‘couture creatures’ I suppose,” she told Textile Artist. “I use my animals to explore the interesting dichotomy of man wearing animal skins and animals ‘clothed‘ in skins inspired by human culture.”
According to Nicol, she uses different techniques and materials, “whatever suits what I am trying to say and everything used is with the utmost irreverence”. Her goal through her art is to push the manipulation of materials, exploring the different ways in which she can work with textile.
But Nicol’s textile art is also a way of connecting with her past. “My mother and sister were both embroiderers,” she says. “My mother stitched and painted and demonstrated flower arranging and is a Master in Ikebana and my sister went to MMU and did a degree in Embroidery.” Nicol herself would graduate with a BA (Hons) specializing in embroidery at Manchester Metropolitan University and then an MA at the Royal College of Art.
“I was fortunate enough to be taught all the traditional techniques from ‘aemilia ars’ to ‘trapunto’ and beyond and think they are all the most brilliant vocabulary to then explore, explode and develop,” she notes, explaining she thinks of herself more as a designer than a mixed media textile artist.
Follow her Instagram page for more.
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]]>“Most of my tapestries are just an involuntary result of an improvisation, a dance with colors and materials,” Just shared in an interview with Colossal. “I like to let myself flow and see what it transforms into afterwards. Once I finish and approve one design, I keep the original in my studio to reproduce it in different color variations. Then I redo them and make them evolve and metamorphose into other creations.”
Having studied fashion design, sculpture, and textile art, she specialized in weaving and embroidery. But according to Just, her passion for textile was mostly the result of her upbringing. Raised in Barcelona, she grew up surrounded by textiles and learned weaving from her mother when she was young.
These days, she incorporates old weaving techniques, adding a modern twist by using vibrant color combinations and incorporating vintage threads. Depending on the type of wall hanging, she weaves her tapestries with rye knots created either on a lap loom or an eight-harness table loom.
“When I’m working is where I find my most important inspirations, and especially I have found that the more tired I am, the more ideas I get,” added Just in an interview with Sarah K. Benning. “As I’m weaving, I usually go crazy jumping on many diverse ideas at the same time like a distracted butterfly. I try to make fast sketches and secure some of the color combinations that suddenly pop on my mind, as fast as possible.”
The result—playful, vibrant, and colorful—is just the energy boost our interiors crave.
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]]>Her technique was achieved through trial and error, first using paper yarns and then proceeding to handmade paper made of flax. She would then proceed to use flax without the traditional papermaking techniques. According to Jokinen, her working method can be compared to painting, using fiber instead of paint. In addition, she uses stitching to form “drawn” lines and rice starch as a binder.
“Preparing the fibers can be compared to the process of artists mixing paint in former times,” she further explained in the interview. “After preparing the materials I start to ‘draw’ and ‘paint’ with the fibers. I have a rough sketch for the outline but in practice the work is like painting and drawing, only with fibers. I add stitching to keep the fibers together and emphasize the image with ‘drawing’ and colors.”
A common theme throughout her work is the human body, exploring the boundaries between physical and immaterial feelings. “My feeling is that textiles have always been with me, it’s kind of part of me, my way of thinking,” she reflects. “My interest is in structures, the feel of the materials, colors and patterning.”
Scroll down to see some recent highlights from her Instagram page:
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]]>Nicola Henley knows best. Based in the West of Ireland, her art is in constant dialogue with birds, and more specifically—birds in flight. Inspired by the dramatic seas and changing light of the Atlantic coast, as well as the sense of freedom of birds, Henley’s work is representative of the striking contrast between intricate ornithological detail and the vast expanse of surrounding space.
“Birds are often a focal point but within every environment,” she relayed once in an interview with Textile Artist. According to Henley, she seeks out the colour and dynamics in terms of movement within space. “I draw to record what I see but also to try to capture the essence of the place and bird character and movement within a location, bringing out what is important to me,” she notes.
Using a combination of dying, painting with pigments, screen-printing onto cotton calico, and texturing made of hand and machine stitch, her stand-alone pieces make for a striking statement. The end result, rather than being realistic, provides an impression of the movement of birds as they soar high above us.
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]]>A 2018 Contestant of the Sky Arts Landscape Artist, most recently Cryer took part in @tomcroftartist‘s initiative to create a free portrait of an NHS worker. Her stitched line drawings are sometimes colored with disperse dyes and pastels. “When drawing with thread, I tend to use black and a range of grey yarns on differing weights of fabric, such as cotton, canvas and linen,” Cryer further explained her process in an interview with Textile Artist. “Colour is added using disperse dyes which I hand print onto the drawn image after it has been stitched. This is a labour intensive process as each colour is applied separately and may be built up in layers to achieve the depth of tone or effect needed.”
According to Cryer, her use of textile was fairly intuitive, as she learned the craft from her parents. “I learned about sewing and developed my love of textiles from both my parents,” she recalled. “My mom made clothes and knitted cardigans for me and my three sisters. My dad was a tailor who made fabulous suits with wonderful linings.”
Enjoy some of her work in the gallery below, and follow her Instagram page for more.
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“My work has taken a bit of a turn in recent years since I started making these more abstract forms, rather than the more literal or representation pieces I’d made for about ten years,” adds DiCioccio. Her forms are also the result of much trial and error. A self-taught sculptor, DiCioccio’s background is actually in painting.
Having switched gears in 2005, she began embroidering and sewing with no prior experience. “I’ve never really taken a class in sculpture or studied sculpture so when I started I was just making objects,” she notes. “Now I think a lot about what it takes to make a good sculpture and how these object function in space, and that’s been a really big development.”
Below you’ll find a small collection of her work. Follow her Instagram page for more.
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]]>“Much of the fabric I stitch resist, paint, and print,” she shared with Mass Cultural Council. “Then I cut, combine, layer, cut again, reassemble.” She explains that she often mixes contemporary imagery with old letters or pages from books that harken back to her childhood.
The end result is a Frankenstein experiment of sorts, a piece made of hundreds of pieces of fabric stitched together. As Comeau stitches the snippets together, each part becomes integral to the whole, akin to the sum of the many moments that make up a lifetime.
“The long process gives me plenty of time to do, edit and re-edit,” says Comeau. “The work is handled many, many times. I believe the final product embodies a level of human touch which is communicated to the viewer.” Enter her chaotic, beautiful, and layered universe.
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