Combining sculpture, painting, and textile, her work incorporates techniques used in other mediums, together with embroidery and textile art.

Comparing her work to painting, the Finnish artist explains that rather than paint, she uses fiber. Jokinen then uses stitching to form “drawn” lines and rice starch as a binder.

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“I am interested in all techniques except printing,” Jokinen told Textile Artist. “My favorite techniques employ fibers and yarns.”

Her unique treatment of fiber is further enhanced by her chosen subjects and themes. A common theme throughout her work is the human body, creating vein-like structures that highlight the fragility of our bodies and limbs.

In order to create each piece, much preparation is needed beforehand. This preparation of fibers, says Jokinen can be compared to the process of mixing paint.

“After preparing the materials I start to ‘draw’ and ‘paint’ with the fibers,” she explains. “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.”

The end result, albeit sometimes alarming, demands your attention.

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A post shared by Raija Jokinen (@raijajokinen)

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The post Highlighting the Fragility of the Human Body Using Fiber appeared first on 5dwallpaper.com.

If her weaves were an emotion they would ooze with nostalgia. Inspired by vintage textiles, traditional costuming, modern art, and the natural world, her pieces are meant to be hung on the wall and admired, in all their tactility.

Dividing her time between Melbourne, Australia and Brooklyn, NY, Moodie designs and creates woven wall hangings, develops weaving kits, and teaches workshops. “I love what I do,” she says. “I have brought on people who are invested in the vision, and we work together to make sure everyone is feeling happy and secure at each point of change. We really feel like a family.”

With features in New York Magazine, Anthology, and O Magazine; as well as more than 120k followers on Instagram, her community of weavers is slowly (but surely!) growing. You can also acquire her work on Etsy and through online shops and boutiques around the country.

The post Maryanne Moodie Explores Raw Emotions Through Weaving appeared first on 5dwallpaper.com.

“The main goal of the work is to use the alchemy of sculpture to take the inanimate and very simple materials of cloth and stuffing and sometimes wood and turn them into something alive with personality,” she further relayed in an interview with Textile Artist. “It’s among the simplest and the most complex ideas an artist works with and I am finding it infinitely interesting.”

With a formal background in painting, DiCioccio started experimenting with fiber in 2005. According to DiCioccio, she began embroidering and sewing with no prior experience outside of doing cross-stitch projects and watching her mom hand-sew Halloween costumes when she was a child. 

“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,” she reflects. “I’ve never really taken a class in sculpture or studied sculpture so when I started I was just making objects. 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.”

Show her some love on Instagram:

The post Lauren DiCioccio’s Abstract Sculptures Are Full of Character appeared first on 5dwallpaper.com.

“Making things has always been of second nature to me, and something that gave my young life some sense and focus,” shared Desloges in an interview with Textile Artist. “I first considered art as a career path once I discovered the work of the surrealists,” she recalls. “I was fascinated by its mystery and how it’s open interpretation is, more often than not, what we want it to be.”

Nowadays, much like the surrealists, Desloges’ pieces aim to explore the representation of abstract concepts, as she attempts to illustrate what doesn’t exist in a physical form. The interpretations become intimate and filled with imagination, at once vulnerable, fragile, and precious.

“Interestingly enough, my entire academic background is in sculpture,” admits Desloges. Being trained as a sculptor, she juxtaposes the materials and techniques to create an illusion of depth and to reconsider the definition of two and three-dimensional compositions. “Even though I have no academic training in textiles, playing with thread has always been something I kept doing with no intention of exhibiting my finished work,” she says.

“On presenting some of my projects to my teacher Jean-Pierre Morin, who was and still is a renowned artist in Canada, he took me aside and said something along the lines of: ‘You don’t have to become a sculptor if you don’t want to. You don’t even have to graduate if you don’t want to. You’re an artist and you should do what you feel like doing.'” Those words seem to have resonated.

Based in Toronto, Desloges has exhibited in Canada, France, and Guatemala and her work can be found in various public and private collections across Canada. But you can also follow her creative journey online, via Instagram.

The post The Distinctly Mysterious Textile Art of Anouk Desloges appeared first on 5dwallpaper.com.

“Much of the fabric I stitch resist, paint, and print,” she explained the somewhat messy process in an interview with Mass Cultural Council. “Then I cut, combine, layer, cut again, reassemble.” According to Comeau, she’s drawn to the discarded: clothes, vintage linens, and discontinued designer prints. These transmit memories and symbolize lives lived, while also addressing anxiety around the consumer cycle, global manufacturing, and the environment.

Her creative process relies on assembling and then reassembling her materials. “The long process gives me plenty of time to do, edit and re-edit,” she notes. “The work is handled many, many times. I believe the final product embodies a level of human touch which is communicated to the viewer.”

When painting and drawing upon the textile, Comeau often mixes contemporary imagery with old letters or pages from books which harken back to her childhood. As she stitches hundreds of snippets together, each part becomes integral to the whole, akin to the sum of the many moments that make up a lifetime. Embracing installations, wall hangings, paintings, and garments, her work is both personal and communal. “Being dissatisfied motivates me to do more, more, more,” admits Comeau.

The post Merill Comeau’s Artworks Are Made of Hundreds of Snippets of Fabric appeared first on 5dwallpaper.com.

“My inspiration comes from ordinary, everyday things like cactuses, teacups, staircases, and vibracrete walls,” she told You Are Brave, noting her sources of inspiration. “I usually have a notebook with me, where I make sketches, and I take a lot of photographs of textures, details, juxtapositions, and compositions that seem to give me ideas.”

The owner of the Skinny laMinx brand (named after Moore’s Siamese cat), Moore’s career path wasn’t a straight line. “After 10 years of illustration, I needed a change, so in 2006 I took a half-day job as a comic’s scriptwriter and spent the rest of my day messing around in my studio on Long Street,” she recalled. “I started blogging about my work, and opened an online shop on Etsy. People around the world started reading my blog and buying my things, and I got some wholesale orders to the USA, and suddenly I found that I was a designer with a design business.”

Now with almost 40k followers on Instagram, Moore is a busy bee. “The Skinny laMinx recipe is simple,” reads her website, “Mix together a love of pattern, a cute shop, a top notch team, and top it all off with equal parts playful and chic.”

The post A Dash of Color, a Pop of Pattern: Skinny laMinx’s Products Will Delight You 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.

“The fabric becomes the foundation for a fantastical exploration,” writes Cogan on her website. “Through my own hand stitching, I update the content of the vintage embroidery to incorporate the unladylike reality and wit of contemporary women; their struggles and the stereotypes which must now be overcome. These struggles are in all probability very different from those of the earlier generation of women who originally embroidered the textiles to ‘feminize’ their homes.”

Born in Israel and educated at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in NYC and The Maryland Institute College of Art, Cogan has been exhibiting her work throughout the US and in Europe and has been at the forefront of the fiber arts movement with an emphasis on Feminism in contemporary art.

Much of her subject matter touches upon storytelling concerning fertility, power plays in relationships, self-image, isolation, vulnerability, and beauty in the mundane. “I am drawn to the space between–dichotomies such as soft and tough, dirty and clean, fantasy and reality, especially as related to gender,” she writes.

The finished product is both delicate and powerful, decorative and thought-provoking. Take a look for yourself.

The post Orly Cogan’s Embroidery Art is Empowering appeared first on 5dwallpaper.com.

“I really like the juxtapositions between working in soft materials like fabrics and thread, and the subjects that feature in my work like insects,” said Pritchett in an interview with Textile Artist. “A common remark about some of my more recognizable works that feature spiders are that of conflicting feeling between visually appealing embroidered stitching, and the realism of spiders on webs which in contrast are a common source of discomfort to many people.”

“I think that a key theme in my work is that of reconstruction and passing of time,” adds Pritchett. “A reoccurring theme of spiders in a series of pieces that I have made have all been based around cutting away at fabric, and weaving lace-like structures similar to webs over the holes to make them complete again. The break down and rebuilding is a subject that keeps coming up in my work, and one that I don’t feel I have finished exploring yet.”

“My work feels more illustrative than conceptual, and the shows that I have exhibited in have featured alongside mostly illustrators so I suppose I’m not really sure how my work fits in alongside other textile art,” he admits.

His miniature botanical embroideries will spark joy in your feed. Take a look for yourself.

The post Step Into Adam Pritchett’s Tiny Embroidered Garden appeared first on 5dwallpaper.com.

Her untraditional career path meant that Yamashiro moved from place to place. Based first in San Diego and later San Francisco, she would perform with her punk/experimental band, The Merdivorators, creating interactive installations and recreating tropes of after school specials and sitcoms. Upon moving to New York, she became one-fourth of the JUDY collective, curating and creating queer, multimedia nightlife events. And most recently, she’s performed as a professional wrestler, named Candy Pain.

But back to her crochet art. “As a teenager, I learned how to crochet from my mom, Takako Yamashiro,” she told the Urban Outfitters blog. “I never learned how to read patterns.” Once she figured out that crochet could be so much more than scarfs and baby blankets, the possibilities were endless. “I have been consistently crocheting since then, making costumes, bikinis, soft sculpture, wall hangings, pillows, giant portraits based on the Cathy comics.”

Working from her apartment, Yamashiro admits she enjoys being able to cohabit with her work. “This is the first time in my life I have lived alone and I thought that I was finally going to have a ‘grown-up’ minimal, fancy, apartment. But it turns out I actually just want to live in a psychedelic TGIFridays/Pee-wee’s Playhouse with plants,” she jokes.

“My aesthetic is all about bright colors, humor and the queering of pop culture,” she adds. “So, being surrounded by my work and the beautiful work of my friends creates a pop culture of its own: it’s all around me and part of my daily life.”

Take a look at some of her quirky creations.

The post Mikki Yamashiro Crochet Art is Quirky and Cheerful appeared first on 5dwallpaper.com.

Combining sculpture, painting, and textile, her work incorporates techniques used in other mediums, together with embroidery and textile art.

Comparing her work to painting, the Finnish artist explains that rather than paint, she uses fiber. Jokinen then uses stitching to form “drawn” lines and rice starch as a binder.

View this post on Instagram

A post shared by Raija Jokinen (@raijajokinen)

“I am interested in all techniques except printing,” Jokinen told Textile Artist. “My favorite techniques employ fibers and yarns.”

Her unique treatment of fiber is further enhanced by her chosen subjects and themes. A common theme throughout her work is the human body, creating vein-like structures that highlight the fragility of our bodies and limbs.

In order to create each piece, much preparation is needed beforehand. This preparation of fibers, says Jokinen can be compared to the process of mixing paint.

“After preparing the materials I start to ‘draw’ and ‘paint’ with the fibers,” she explains. “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.”

The end result, albeit sometimes alarming, demands your attention.

View this post on Instagram

A post shared by Raija Jokinen (@raijajokinen)

View this post on Instagram

A post shared by Raija Jokinen (@raijajokinen)

View this post on Instagram

A post shared by Raija Jokinen (@raijajokinen)

View this post on Instagram

A post shared by Raija Jokinen (@raijajokinen)

The post Highlighting the Fragility of the Human Body Using Fiber appeared first on 5dwallpaper.com.

If her weaves were an emotion they would ooze with nostalgia. Inspired by vintage textiles, traditional costuming, modern art, and the natural world, her pieces are meant to be hung on the wall and admired, in all their tactility.

Dividing her time between Melbourne, Australia and Brooklyn, NY, Moodie designs and creates woven wall hangings, develops weaving kits, and teaches workshops. “I love what I do,” she says. “I have brought on people who are invested in the vision, and we work together to make sure everyone is feeling happy and secure at each point of change. We really feel like a family.”

With features in New York Magazine, Anthology, and O Magazine; as well as more than 120k followers on Instagram, her community of weavers is slowly (but surely!) growing. You can also acquire her work on Etsy and through online shops and boutiques around the country.

The post Maryanne Moodie Explores Raw Emotions Through Weaving appeared first on 5dwallpaper.com.

“The main goal of the work is to use the alchemy of sculpture to take the inanimate and very simple materials of cloth and stuffing and sometimes wood and turn them into something alive with personality,” she further relayed in an interview with Textile Artist. “It’s among the simplest and the most complex ideas an artist works with and I am finding it infinitely interesting.”

With a formal background in painting, DiCioccio started experimenting with fiber in 2005. According to DiCioccio, she began embroidering and sewing with no prior experience outside of doing cross-stitch projects and watching her mom hand-sew Halloween costumes when she was a child. 

“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,” she reflects. “I’ve never really taken a class in sculpture or studied sculpture so when I started I was just making objects. 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.”

Show her some love on Instagram:

The post Lauren DiCioccio’s Abstract Sculptures Are Full of Character appeared first on 5dwallpaper.com.

“Making things has always been of second nature to me, and something that gave my young life some sense and focus,” shared Desloges in an interview with Textile Artist. “I first considered art as a career path once I discovered the work of the surrealists,” she recalls. “I was fascinated by its mystery and how it’s open interpretation is, more often than not, what we want it to be.”

Nowadays, much like the surrealists, Desloges’ pieces aim to explore the representation of abstract concepts, as she attempts to illustrate what doesn’t exist in a physical form. The interpretations become intimate and filled with imagination, at once vulnerable, fragile, and precious.

“Interestingly enough, my entire academic background is in sculpture,” admits Desloges. Being trained as a sculptor, she juxtaposes the materials and techniques to create an illusion of depth and to reconsider the definition of two and three-dimensional compositions. “Even though I have no academic training in textiles, playing with thread has always been something I kept doing with no intention of exhibiting my finished work,” she says.

“On presenting some of my projects to my teacher Jean-Pierre Morin, who was and still is a renowned artist in Canada, he took me aside and said something along the lines of: ‘You don’t have to become a sculptor if you don’t want to. You don’t even have to graduate if you don’t want to. You’re an artist and you should do what you feel like doing.'” Those words seem to have resonated.

Based in Toronto, Desloges has exhibited in Canada, France, and Guatemala and her work can be found in various public and private collections across Canada. But you can also follow her creative journey online, via Instagram.

The post The Distinctly Mysterious Textile Art of Anouk Desloges appeared first on 5dwallpaper.com.

“Much of the fabric I stitch resist, paint, and print,” she explained the somewhat messy process in an interview with Mass Cultural Council. “Then I cut, combine, layer, cut again, reassemble.” According to Comeau, she’s drawn to the discarded: clothes, vintage linens, and discontinued designer prints. These transmit memories and symbolize lives lived, while also addressing anxiety around the consumer cycle, global manufacturing, and the environment.

Her creative process relies on assembling and then reassembling her materials. “The long process gives me plenty of time to do, edit and re-edit,” she notes. “The work is handled many, many times. I believe the final product embodies a level of human touch which is communicated to the viewer.”

When painting and drawing upon the textile, Comeau often mixes contemporary imagery with old letters or pages from books which harken back to her childhood. As she stitches hundreds of snippets together, each part becomes integral to the whole, akin to the sum of the many moments that make up a lifetime. Embracing installations, wall hangings, paintings, and garments, her work is both personal and communal. “Being dissatisfied motivates me to do more, more, more,” admits Comeau.

The post Merill Comeau’s Artworks Are Made of Hundreds of Snippets of Fabric appeared first on 5dwallpaper.com.

“My inspiration comes from ordinary, everyday things like cactuses, teacups, staircases, and vibracrete walls,” she told You Are Brave, noting her sources of inspiration. “I usually have a notebook with me, where I make sketches, and I take a lot of photographs of textures, details, juxtapositions, and compositions that seem to give me ideas.”

The owner of the Skinny laMinx brand (named after Moore’s Siamese cat), Moore’s career path wasn’t a straight line. “After 10 years of illustration, I needed a change, so in 2006 I took a half-day job as a comic’s scriptwriter and spent the rest of my day messing around in my studio on Long Street,” she recalled. “I started blogging about my work, and opened an online shop on Etsy. People around the world started reading my blog and buying my things, and I got some wholesale orders to the USA, and suddenly I found that I was a designer with a design business.”

Now with almost 40k followers on Instagram, Moore is a busy bee. “The Skinny laMinx recipe is simple,” reads her website, “Mix together a love of pattern, a cute shop, a top notch team, and top it all off with equal parts playful and chic.”

The post A Dash of Color, a Pop of Pattern: Skinny laMinx’s Products Will Delight You 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.

“The fabric becomes the foundation for a fantastical exploration,” writes Cogan on her website. “Through my own hand stitching, I update the content of the vintage embroidery to incorporate the unladylike reality and wit of contemporary women; their struggles and the stereotypes which must now be overcome. These struggles are in all probability very different from those of the earlier generation of women who originally embroidered the textiles to ‘feminize’ their homes.”

Born in Israel and educated at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in NYC and The Maryland Institute College of Art, Cogan has been exhibiting her work throughout the US and in Europe and has been at the forefront of the fiber arts movement with an emphasis on Feminism in contemporary art.

Much of her subject matter touches upon storytelling concerning fertility, power plays in relationships, self-image, isolation, vulnerability, and beauty in the mundane. “I am drawn to the space between–dichotomies such as soft and tough, dirty and clean, fantasy and reality, especially as related to gender,” she writes.

The finished product is both delicate and powerful, decorative and thought-provoking. Take a look for yourself.

The post Orly Cogan’s Embroidery Art is Empowering appeared first on 5dwallpaper.com.

“I really like the juxtapositions between working in soft materials like fabrics and thread, and the subjects that feature in my work like insects,” said Pritchett in an interview with Textile Artist. “A common remark about some of my more recognizable works that feature spiders are that of conflicting feeling between visually appealing embroidered stitching, and the realism of spiders on webs which in contrast are a common source of discomfort to many people.”

“I think that a key theme in my work is that of reconstruction and passing of time,” adds Pritchett. “A reoccurring theme of spiders in a series of pieces that I have made have all been based around cutting away at fabric, and weaving lace-like structures similar to webs over the holes to make them complete again. The break down and rebuilding is a subject that keeps coming up in my work, and one that I don’t feel I have finished exploring yet.”

“My work feels more illustrative than conceptual, and the shows that I have exhibited in have featured alongside mostly illustrators so I suppose I’m not really sure how my work fits in alongside other textile art,” he admits.

His miniature botanical embroideries will spark joy in your feed. Take a look for yourself.

The post Step Into Adam Pritchett’s Tiny Embroidered Garden appeared first on 5dwallpaper.com.

Her untraditional career path meant that Yamashiro moved from place to place. Based first in San Diego and later San Francisco, she would perform with her punk/experimental band, The Merdivorators, creating interactive installations and recreating tropes of after school specials and sitcoms. Upon moving to New York, she became one-fourth of the JUDY collective, curating and creating queer, multimedia nightlife events. And most recently, she’s performed as a professional wrestler, named Candy Pain.

But back to her crochet art. “As a teenager, I learned how to crochet from my mom, Takako Yamashiro,” she told the Urban Outfitters blog. “I never learned how to read patterns.” Once she figured out that crochet could be so much more than scarfs and baby blankets, the possibilities were endless. “I have been consistently crocheting since then, making costumes, bikinis, soft sculpture, wall hangings, pillows, giant portraits based on the Cathy comics.”

Working from her apartment, Yamashiro admits she enjoys being able to cohabit with her work. “This is the first time in my life I have lived alone and I thought that I was finally going to have a ‘grown-up’ minimal, fancy, apartment. But it turns out I actually just want to live in a psychedelic TGIFridays/Pee-wee’s Playhouse with plants,” she jokes.

“My aesthetic is all about bright colors, humor and the queering of pop culture,” she adds. “So, being surrounded by my work and the beautiful work of my friends creates a pop culture of its own: it’s all around me and part of my daily life.”

Take a look at some of her quirky creations.

The post Mikki Yamashiro Crochet Art is Quirky and Cheerful appeared first on 5dwallpaper.com.