Such is the case with master embroiderer Danielle Clough. With some 190,000 followers on Instagram, Clough’s passion for needle and thread is evident.

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“I’d always loved fabric,” she gushed in an interview with Colossal, relaying how she was introduced to sewing early on in life.

“My mom used to sew, and she used to make me clothes,” she recalled. “I always thought I was going to be this amazing fashion designer. I was so sure, and I would make these really horrible jackets out of old curtains. I’d make a jacket that you couldn’t put your arms down, but I’d still wear it proudly. I’d always loved fashion.”

These days, her sense for color and style comes across her work. Colorful to the max, her embroideries stand out for their unique backdrops and subject choices.

View this post on Instagram

A post shared by Danielle Clough (@fiance_knowles)

“I love just making stuff that feels fun, feels light, feels colorful, and that evokes some kind of memories,” says Clough. “I love pop culture references, and there’s a lot of connection that comes from that.”

Amongst her portrait subjects, for instance, you can find pop icons like Biggie Smalls and Bob Ross with nods to The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and even Furby.

View this post on Instagram

A post shared by Danielle Clough (@fiance_knowles)

Based in South Africa, Clough also teaches embroidery, online and in person. “My role hopefully will be in expanding that idea that embroidery is considered women’s work now,” she says.

View this post on Instagram

A post shared by Danielle Clough (@fiance_knowles)

The post Danielle Clough’s Embroidery Art is All About Having Fun appeared first on 5dwallpaper.com.

In her work, symbolism and allegory lay bare dynamics of aspiration and limitation, expectation and loss, belonging and alienation, truth, and illusion. “My approach to the work is intuitive and there is an ongoing,” she explained her creative process in an interview with Textile Artist, “in organic technical dialogue throughout the process. While honoring the richness of tradition, I also try to refresh and bring renewed relevance to the medium.”

Indeed, using the thread as a sketching tool, Kingdom simultaneously honors and undermines the tradition of embroidery, elevating it from its traditional and often over-looked history.

Her work process was learned through trial and error, with her initial interest in textiles beginning while in college in the early ’90s, when I was studying fine art. “Back then the art scene felt like an exclusive, closed world,” she recalls. “Serious work was oversized, relentlessly ironic, coldly conceptual and impossibly clever. I never imagined there would be any place there for me.”

At the same time, growing up in a sewing family, she was drawn to art but also the world of textiles, which she experimented with on my own. And so, she began “drawing with thread”, so to speak, teaching herself embroidery as a way to pursue both passions and as a reaction to art that didn’t speak to her. Nowadays, her artwork is anything but overlooked. Scroll down, to see some of her most recent needlework.

The post The Beautiful, Intuitive Embroidery of Michelle Kingdom appeared first on 5dwallpaper.com.

“My work has developed hugely over the last few years,” she wrote in a piece for Inky Goodness, “informed by some big life decisions like moving abroad and pursuing a very particular artistic path. I’ve been really lucky to be surrounded by a positive, creative environment and have been greatly inspired by the people and places around me.”

According to Menzies, she had always loved illustrating and designing her own clothes. But it was after moving to Barcelona to study for a master’s in illustration that she discovered a passion for embroidery. “It’s impossible not to be inspired when living in Barcelona,” she says, “the grit of the city contrasted with the idyllic coastline.”

With each project, Menzies finds different meanings and uses a different set of techniques and styles to achieve a unique outcome. The embroideries are all designed and hand-sewn by her. She creates the designs on paper or digitally, after which she converts them to fabric.  “It’s particularly fun to work with someone creative on their own unique piece,” she notes, “involving them in the process and seeing what ideas they want to express. I’m not afraid to step out of my comfort zone to explore different styles when working with another illustrator.”

Show her some love on Instagram.

The post This Embroidery Artist is Inspired by People and Places appeared first on 5dwallpaper.com.

Covered in cross-stitch embroidery they present motives that are typically Swedish. Those include small red cottages in the countryside with blue sky and birches, as well as wild animals, like elk, deer, and birds, often seen in woodlands.

Born in 1957 in Gothenburg, Wikander has been working as an artist since 1986, but has been collecting embroideries years before that. “I started to collect cross stitches […] but I didn’t know what to do with them,” she told HAHAMAG. “I found them beautiful, and I admired the work behind.”

It was only in 2012 that she began to “dress up” vintage objects with her collected embroideries. “I decided to try to cover things from the ’70s, a sewing machine, a typewriter for example, and it went well,” she explains. “It was like you saw the objects for the first time, and you weren’t sure of what you were looking at.” The finished objects are statement pieces, to say the least.

The post Ulla-Stina Wikander Covers Vintage Objects In Embroidery appeared first on 5dwallpaper.com.

Based in Birmingham, Redfern ties her love of nature to her childhood. “When I was growing up we had a caravan in Wales and I loved the wildness of the landscape,” she told Ballpitmag. “I think going there instilled in me a great love for nature and the outdoors.” After completing an art foundation course in college, she worked with mixed media textile and paper collage before moving on to hand embroidery in 2015.

“I love the fact that it takes quite a long time to stitch a piece, so it is quite a meditative process,” she says, “and I find all of the materials really pleasing; the colorful threads, beads, lovely natural colored fabric (natural calico is my fabric of choice) and the wooden hoops.”

Indeed, hand crafting and embroidering are an easy recipe for mindfulness, and Redfern herself provides downloadable embroidery patterns on her Etsy shop, alongside a small selection of embroidered hoop art. “One of the things I find most rewarding about creating embroidery patterns is the thought that they are hopefully bringing enjoyment to people,” she says, “so I would like to keep creating new patterns, as well as working on new original pieces to further explore my favorite subject matter.”

You might just be inspired to take on embroidery yourself!

The post Chloe Redfern Will Inspire You to Embroider appeared first on 5dwallpaper.com.

As such, embroidery is almost second nature to her. But it was only during her studies that Currie became interested in the sculptural potential of embroidery stitches. With an embroidery degree from Manchester Polytechnic, she now tends to her craft (but it’s more of an art, really) from her home in Stockport, Greater Manchester.

Currie admits to putting a lot of thought into each of her designs, with each work closely planned before the stitching starts. However, as she renders the design in three-dimensions, she sometimes discovers unexpected shapes emerging from the build-up of thread lines. With a motif of geometrical patterns present throughout her work, her embroideries often rely on organic shapes and forms found in nature, with an added pop of color.

She also likes to add sheer fabrics into her design, with which her threads interact. “I use transparent and translucent supporting materials to allow the journey of the stitched threads to be viewed from different angles,” she explains, “revealing the three-dimensional shape of the stitches, and creating continually changing perspectives.”

Take a closer look:

The post This Embroidery Artist Took to Sewing By the Age of Three appeared first on 5dwallpaper.com.

Inspired by the very richness of nature, in all its colors, shapes, and textures, Bartnik ‘s work is usually based on images rather than sketches. “I have plenty ideas in my head (sometimes too much) which isn’t always good because I forget to realize lots of them,” she admitted in an interview with the Paperfolk blog.

Growin up in an artistic family, Bartnik was surrounded by all forms of art and took to painting, drawing, and other forms of handicraft. “I finished art school but I learned a lot of things by myself, including embroidery,” she explains. “I discovered embroidery as a teenager when I found a book about folk embroidery. I really liked it so I decided to try it myself. It came naturally to me because I had a background in various other fields of art.”

“Embroidery is very time-consuming so I had to postpone it for a while and got back to it after a few years,” she adds. “I started to play around with felt and I discovered how good it looks when it’s combined with embroidery. Soft painterly effects can be achieved by using the felting technique and look perfect in combination with an acute line of threads.”

Judging by the finished product, her time is very well spent.

The post The Remarkable Bird Embroideries of Paulina Bartnik appeared first on 5dwallpaper.com.

“What you see in my embroideries is highly filtered visual and sonic information’” Wolodkiewicz told Colossal. “It travels through my eyes, brain, and hands, landing in the physical world again, this time in the shape of my hand-stitched pieces.”

The artist patiently chooses the color, composition, and the texture, which are crucial components in her ‘micro-worlds’, because, as she says, they convey a strong emotional message innate to human beings. They suggest very complicated nets of relationships. The upward stitches symbolize the way people are bonded with all that surrounds them.”

If you are curious to see more of her work, have a look on Instagram.

The post This Artist Embroideries Polymer Clay appeared first on 5dwallpaper.com.

“When I was younger I wasn’t interested in nature at all, plants were these horrible demanding things and I even killed a cactus at one point,” she admitted in an interview with Life in Maastricht. “Now nature has become this wonderful thing in my life that gives me instant gratification.”

“When I walk through the forest, nature keeps surprising me with hidden beauty, waiting to be found by whoever wants to take the time to appreciate it,” she gushes. “It’s the ideal place to clear your head and let the surroundings take over.”

Whether it’s small as a flower in bloom or as big as the ever-changing colors in the sky, Olislagers immerses herself in nature and finds endless beauty and inspiration within it. Here are some highlights from her Instagram page:

The post Birgitt Olislagers Will Remind You of the Endless Beauty to Be Found In Nature appeared first on 5dwallpaper.com.

But it was Bulkan’s ultrasound embroideries that have really taken the internet by storm. “I came up with an idea of a baby ultrasound embroidery and announcing my pregnancy this way,” wrote Bulkan, explaining the idea behind her work. “I was imaging from her ultrasounds how my little one will look like, and thinking of a keepsake of these beautiful days. Now, this is piece is a part of our nursery.”

“I have got many inquiries after my announcement, and after I while, I started to accept custom orders,” she went on to explain. “There become shortly a long backlog, more than I can handle especially as a new mom, hundred of emails at some days, I could not reply one by one, felt really upset about it. Embroidering is a slow process at all, and most of my current time is obviously dedicated to my little one for the moment.”

Since her page blew up, she currently doesn’t accept new orders. But her embroideries are still very much awe-inspiring, even when only admired from afar, via her Instagram page. Based in Munich, Germany, she’s constantly inspired by the city around her, but also loves exploring nature, long picnics, and cycling around lakes in the Alps.

Join her creative journey.

The post The Awe-Inspiring Embroideries of Veselka Bulkan appeared first on 5dwallpaper.com.

Such is the case with master embroiderer Danielle Clough. With some 190,000 followers on Instagram, Clough’s passion for needle and thread is evident.

View this post on Instagram

A post shared by Danielle Clough (@fiance_knowles)

“I’d always loved fabric,” she gushed in an interview with Colossal, relaying how she was introduced to sewing early on in life.

“My mom used to sew, and she used to make me clothes,” she recalled. “I always thought I was going to be this amazing fashion designer. I was so sure, and I would make these really horrible jackets out of old curtains. I’d make a jacket that you couldn’t put your arms down, but I’d still wear it proudly. I’d always loved fashion.”

These days, her sense for color and style comes across her work. Colorful to the max, her embroideries stand out for their unique backdrops and subject choices.

View this post on Instagram

A post shared by Danielle Clough (@fiance_knowles)

“I love just making stuff that feels fun, feels light, feels colorful, and that evokes some kind of memories,” says Clough. “I love pop culture references, and there’s a lot of connection that comes from that.”

Amongst her portrait subjects, for instance, you can find pop icons like Biggie Smalls and Bob Ross with nods to The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and even Furby.

View this post on Instagram

A post shared by Danielle Clough (@fiance_knowles)

Based in South Africa, Clough also teaches embroidery, online and in person. “My role hopefully will be in expanding that idea that embroidery is considered women’s work now,” she says.

View this post on Instagram

A post shared by Danielle Clough (@fiance_knowles)

The post Danielle Clough’s Embroidery Art is All About Having Fun appeared first on 5dwallpaper.com.

In her work, symbolism and allegory lay bare dynamics of aspiration and limitation, expectation and loss, belonging and alienation, truth, and illusion. “My approach to the work is intuitive and there is an ongoing,” she explained her creative process in an interview with Textile Artist, “in organic technical dialogue throughout the process. While honoring the richness of tradition, I also try to refresh and bring renewed relevance to the medium.”

Indeed, using the thread as a sketching tool, Kingdom simultaneously honors and undermines the tradition of embroidery, elevating it from its traditional and often over-looked history.

Her work process was learned through trial and error, with her initial interest in textiles beginning while in college in the early ’90s, when I was studying fine art. “Back then the art scene felt like an exclusive, closed world,” she recalls. “Serious work was oversized, relentlessly ironic, coldly conceptual and impossibly clever. I never imagined there would be any place there for me.”

At the same time, growing up in a sewing family, she was drawn to art but also the world of textiles, which she experimented with on my own. And so, she began “drawing with thread”, so to speak, teaching herself embroidery as a way to pursue both passions and as a reaction to art that didn’t speak to her. Nowadays, her artwork is anything but overlooked. Scroll down, to see some of her most recent needlework.

The post The Beautiful, Intuitive Embroidery of Michelle Kingdom appeared first on 5dwallpaper.com.

“My work has developed hugely over the last few years,” she wrote in a piece for Inky Goodness, “informed by some big life decisions like moving abroad and pursuing a very particular artistic path. I’ve been really lucky to be surrounded by a positive, creative environment and have been greatly inspired by the people and places around me.”

According to Menzies, she had always loved illustrating and designing her own clothes. But it was after moving to Barcelona to study for a master’s in illustration that she discovered a passion for embroidery. “It’s impossible not to be inspired when living in Barcelona,” she says, “the grit of the city contrasted with the idyllic coastline.”

With each project, Menzies finds different meanings and uses a different set of techniques and styles to achieve a unique outcome. The embroideries are all designed and hand-sewn by her. She creates the designs on paper or digitally, after which she converts them to fabric.  “It’s particularly fun to work with someone creative on their own unique piece,” she notes, “involving them in the process and seeing what ideas they want to express. I’m not afraid to step out of my comfort zone to explore different styles when working with another illustrator.”

Show her some love on Instagram.

The post This Embroidery Artist is Inspired by People and Places appeared first on 5dwallpaper.com.

Covered in cross-stitch embroidery they present motives that are typically Swedish. Those include small red cottages in the countryside with blue sky and birches, as well as wild animals, like elk, deer, and birds, often seen in woodlands.

Born in 1957 in Gothenburg, Wikander has been working as an artist since 1986, but has been collecting embroideries years before that. “I started to collect cross stitches […] but I didn’t know what to do with them,” she told HAHAMAG. “I found them beautiful, and I admired the work behind.”

It was only in 2012 that she began to “dress up” vintage objects with her collected embroideries. “I decided to try to cover things from the ’70s, a sewing machine, a typewriter for example, and it went well,” she explains. “It was like you saw the objects for the first time, and you weren’t sure of what you were looking at.” The finished objects are statement pieces, to say the least.

The post Ulla-Stina Wikander Covers Vintage Objects In Embroidery appeared first on 5dwallpaper.com.

Based in Birmingham, Redfern ties her love of nature to her childhood. “When I was growing up we had a caravan in Wales and I loved the wildness of the landscape,” she told Ballpitmag. “I think going there instilled in me a great love for nature and the outdoors.” After completing an art foundation course in college, she worked with mixed media textile and paper collage before moving on to hand embroidery in 2015.

“I love the fact that it takes quite a long time to stitch a piece, so it is quite a meditative process,” she says, “and I find all of the materials really pleasing; the colorful threads, beads, lovely natural colored fabric (natural calico is my fabric of choice) and the wooden hoops.”

Indeed, hand crafting and embroidering are an easy recipe for mindfulness, and Redfern herself provides downloadable embroidery patterns on her Etsy shop, alongside a small selection of embroidered hoop art. “One of the things I find most rewarding about creating embroidery patterns is the thought that they are hopefully bringing enjoyment to people,” she says, “so I would like to keep creating new patterns, as well as working on new original pieces to further explore my favorite subject matter.”

You might just be inspired to take on embroidery yourself!

The post Chloe Redfern Will Inspire You to Embroider appeared first on 5dwallpaper.com.

As such, embroidery is almost second nature to her. But it was only during her studies that Currie became interested in the sculptural potential of embroidery stitches. With an embroidery degree from Manchester Polytechnic, she now tends to her craft (but it’s more of an art, really) from her home in Stockport, Greater Manchester.

Currie admits to putting a lot of thought into each of her designs, with each work closely planned before the stitching starts. However, as she renders the design in three-dimensions, she sometimes discovers unexpected shapes emerging from the build-up of thread lines. With a motif of geometrical patterns present throughout her work, her embroideries often rely on organic shapes and forms found in nature, with an added pop of color.

She also likes to add sheer fabrics into her design, with which her threads interact. “I use transparent and translucent supporting materials to allow the journey of the stitched threads to be viewed from different angles,” she explains, “revealing the three-dimensional shape of the stitches, and creating continually changing perspectives.”

Take a closer look:

The post This Embroidery Artist Took to Sewing By the Age of Three appeared first on 5dwallpaper.com.

Inspired by the very richness of nature, in all its colors, shapes, and textures, Bartnik ‘s work is usually based on images rather than sketches. “I have plenty ideas in my head (sometimes too much) which isn’t always good because I forget to realize lots of them,” she admitted in an interview with the Paperfolk blog.

Growin up in an artistic family, Bartnik was surrounded by all forms of art and took to painting, drawing, and other forms of handicraft. “I finished art school but I learned a lot of things by myself, including embroidery,” she explains. “I discovered embroidery as a teenager when I found a book about folk embroidery. I really liked it so I decided to try it myself. It came naturally to me because I had a background in various other fields of art.”

“Embroidery is very time-consuming so I had to postpone it for a while and got back to it after a few years,” she adds. “I started to play around with felt and I discovered how good it looks when it’s combined with embroidery. Soft painterly effects can be achieved by using the felting technique and look perfect in combination with an acute line of threads.”

Judging by the finished product, her time is very well spent.

The post The Remarkable Bird Embroideries of Paulina Bartnik appeared first on 5dwallpaper.com.

“What you see in my embroideries is highly filtered visual and sonic information’” Wolodkiewicz told Colossal. “It travels through my eyes, brain, and hands, landing in the physical world again, this time in the shape of my hand-stitched pieces.”

The artist patiently chooses the color, composition, and the texture, which are crucial components in her ‘micro-worlds’, because, as she says, they convey a strong emotional message innate to human beings. They suggest very complicated nets of relationships. The upward stitches symbolize the way people are bonded with all that surrounds them.”

If you are curious to see more of her work, have a look on Instagram.

The post This Artist Embroideries Polymer Clay appeared first on 5dwallpaper.com.

“When I was younger I wasn’t interested in nature at all, plants were these horrible demanding things and I even killed a cactus at one point,” she admitted in an interview with Life in Maastricht. “Now nature has become this wonderful thing in my life that gives me instant gratification.”

“When I walk through the forest, nature keeps surprising me with hidden beauty, waiting to be found by whoever wants to take the time to appreciate it,” she gushes. “It’s the ideal place to clear your head and let the surroundings take over.”

Whether it’s small as a flower in bloom or as big as the ever-changing colors in the sky, Olislagers immerses herself in nature and finds endless beauty and inspiration within it. Here are some highlights from her Instagram page:

The post Birgitt Olislagers Will Remind You of the Endless Beauty to Be Found In Nature appeared first on 5dwallpaper.com.

But it was Bulkan’s ultrasound embroideries that have really taken the internet by storm. “I came up with an idea of a baby ultrasound embroidery and announcing my pregnancy this way,” wrote Bulkan, explaining the idea behind her work. “I was imaging from her ultrasounds how my little one will look like, and thinking of a keepsake of these beautiful days. Now, this is piece is a part of our nursery.”

“I have got many inquiries after my announcement, and after I while, I started to accept custom orders,” she went on to explain. “There become shortly a long backlog, more than I can handle especially as a new mom, hundred of emails at some days, I could not reply one by one, felt really upset about it. Embroidering is a slow process at all, and most of my current time is obviously dedicated to my little one for the moment.”

Since her page blew up, she currently doesn’t accept new orders. But her embroideries are still very much awe-inspiring, even when only admired from afar, via her Instagram page. Based in Munich, Germany, she’s constantly inspired by the city around her, but also loves exploring nature, long picnics, and cycling around lakes in the Alps.

Join her creative journey.

The post The Awe-Inspiring Embroideries of Veselka Bulkan appeared first on 5dwallpaper.com.