textiles Archives - 5dwallpaper.com Wallpaper Download Thu, 08 Dec 2022 15:43:07 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 Judit Just Weaved Her Way Into Our Hearts https://5dwallpaper.com/judit-just-weaved-her-way-into-our-hearts/ Sat, 10 Dec 2022 08:15:00 +0000 https://5dwallpaper.com/?p=107882 The history of tapestry is fairly ancient. Pieces in wool have been found in a variety of places, including the Hellenistic world and ancient Egypt. Of course, much has changed over the years. Contemporary tapestry has long surpassed the dull wall hangings preserved in castles and museums. However, one contemporary textile artist that stands high above […]

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]]> The history of tapestry is fairly ancient. Pieces in wool have been found in a variety of places, including the Hellenistic world and ancient Egypt. Of course, much has changed over the years. Contemporary tapestry has long surpassed the dull wall hangings preserved in castles and museums.

However, one contemporary textile artist that stands high above the rest is Judit Just.

Originally from Barcelona and currently based in Asheville, Just’s training includes fashion design, sculpture, and textile art, with a special focus on weaving and embroidery. According to Just, she’s been elbows deep in textile ever since she was a little girl as her mother used to weave and sew all the time.

These days, Just’s wall hangings, sold on her etsy shop and shared on her eye-popping Instagram page, stand out not only for her unique weaving technique but for their vibrant colors.

Her work is mostly the result of trial and error, with room for improvising: “Most of my tapestries are just an involuntary result of an improvisation, a dance with colors and materials,” she admitted in an interview with Colossal. “I like to let myself flow and see what it transforms into afterwards.”

Her unique creative process incorporates old weaving techniques and vintage threads. Depending on the type of wall hanging, Just weaves her tapestries with rye knots created either on a lap loom or an eight-harness table loom.

“Once I finish and approve one design, I keep the original in my studio to reproduce it in different color variations,” she explains. “Then I redo them and make them evolve and metamorphose into other creations.”

Prepare to fall in love with a woven wall hanging!

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]]> Highlighting the Fragility of the Human Body Using Fiber https://5dwallpaper.com/highlighting-the-fragility-of-the-human-body-using-fiber/ Sat, 25 Jun 2022 08:48:00 +0000 https://5dwallpaper.com/?p=107871 Here at 5dwallpaper, we often write about exciting new fiber artists. These are artists who use stitch and embroidery in fresh and unique ways. But even amongst fiber artists, Raija Jokinen’s work stands out. Combining sculpture, painting, and textile, her work incorporates techniques used in other mediums, together with embroidery and textile art. Comparing her […]

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]]> Here at 5dwallpaper, we often write about exciting new fiber artists. These are artists who use stitch and embroidery in fresh and unique ways. But even amongst fiber artists, Raija Jokinen’s work stands out.

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.

“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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]]> Maryanne Moodie Explores Raw Emotions Through Weaving https://5dwallpaper.com/maryanne-moodie-explores-raw-emotions-through-weaving/ Thu, 22 Oct 2020 06:59:21 +0000 https://5dwallpaper.com/?p=106305 Maryanne Moodie treats weaving as a form of therapy. “It allows me to explore emotions that I otherwise don’t give myself time to fully appreciate and explore,” she told Created Here. “I like to return to the same moment or emotion a number of times to delve deeper, weaving the same emotion from different angles.” […]

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]]> Maryanne Moodie treats weaving as a form of therapy. “It allows me to explore emotions that I otherwise don’t give myself time to fully appreciate and explore,” she told Created Here. “I like to return to the same moment or emotion a number of times to delve deeper, weaving the same emotion from different angles.”

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.

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]]> Delve Into Weaving with Lucy Poskitt https://5dwallpaper.com/delve-into-weaving-with-lucy-poskitt/ Mon, 20 Jul 2020 06:10:00 +0000 https://5dwallpaper.com/?p=107102 Never in recent modern history has there been a time to dedicate ourselves to a slower, more meaningful pace. Slow living here we come… Our first stop: weaving. Textile Lucy Poskitt is prepared to teach us what it takes. Based in Victoria, BC, she teaches weaving workshops across Canada, but you can also be inspired […]

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]]> Never in recent modern history has there been a time to dedicate ourselves to a slower, more meaningful pace. Slow living here we come… Our first stop: weaving.

Textile Lucy Poskitt is prepared to teach us what it takes. Based in Victoria, BC, she teaches weaving workshops across Canada, but you can also be inspired from afar by following her Instagram page.

Working with a looser and more experimental hand, Poskitt draws inspiration from local landscapes and lore and works with the belief that with the proper techniques under your belt you can confidently create and explore your own style.

According to Poskitt, workshop materials and supplies are locally sourced or handmade when possible.”Most of my professional work is made with traditional materials–wool, linen, and cotton yarn,” she noted in an interview with KOEL Stories. “When I’m creatively stuck or have time to play around, I really enjoy more unusual, less traditional fibers–horsehair, leather scraps, paper, ropes and trims, wood veneer, mylar… you name it!”

Her techniques include frame-loom weaving—a style of weaving that is fast to set up, easy to use, and portable. According to her website, this technique is most often used to make tapestry-style weavings, ie – decorative art pieces that will hang on the wall as art when completed – but looms can also be used for making small pieces that could be used as jewellery, placemats, coasters, a bit of fabric to use as a panel on a cushion, and more.

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]]> The Distinctly Mysterious Textile Art of Anouk Desloges https://5dwallpaper.com/the-distinctly-mysterious-textile-art-of-anouk-desloges/ Sun, 03 May 2020 12:04:00 +0000 https://5dwallpaper.com/?p=106870 Anouk Desloges creates highly crafted and distinctly mysterious textile art that most often than not relies on the practice of embroidery.  The embroidery itself is removed from its traditional support to adorn plastic and metal, with the finished pieces presenting symbolic allegories and literary allusions. “Making things has always been of second nature to me, […]

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]]> Anouk Desloges creates highly crafted and distinctly mysterious textile art that most often than not relies on the practice of embroidery.  The embroidery itself is removed from its traditional support to adorn plastic and metal, with the finished pieces presenting symbolic allegories and literary allusions.

“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.

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]]> Merill Comeau’s Artworks Are Made of Hundreds of Snippets of Fabric https://5dwallpaper.com/merill-comeaus-artworks-are-made-of-hundreds-of-snippets-of-fabric/ Fri, 01 May 2020 12:05:00 +0000 https://5dwallpaper.com/?p=106871 Merill Comeau’s art is an experimentation of sorts. Made of hundreds of snippets of fabric (that include deconstructed clothing, old linens, and plastic net bags), her pieces employ the traditional methods of sewing in new ways, probing the tension between old and new, art and craft. “Much of the fabric I stitch resist, paint, and […]

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]]> Merill Comeau’s art is an experimentation of sorts. Made of hundreds of snippets of fabric (that include deconstructed clothing, old linens, and plastic net bags), her pieces employ the traditional methods of sewing in new ways, probing the tension between old and new, art and craft.

“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.

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]]> A Dash of Color, a Pop of Pattern: Skinny laMinx’s Products Will Delight You https://5dwallpaper.com/a-dash-of-color-a-pop-of-pattern-skinny-laminxs-products-will-delight-you/ Thu, 12 Mar 2020 06:00:00 +0000 https://5dwallpaper.com/?p=106643 South African designer and illustrator Heather Moore makes textiles and homeware out of good vibes and sunshine. With a background in illustration, she creates clean illustrated patterns which she then screenprints onto the fabric that is cut and sewn into products like cushions, tea towels, and table runners. The result is both uplifting and playful […]

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]]> South African designer and illustrator Heather Moore makes textiles and homeware out of good vibes and sunshine. With a background in illustration, she creates clean illustrated patterns which she then screenprints onto the fabric that is cut and sewn into products like cushions, tea towels, and table runners. The result is both uplifting and playful – that colorful touch you’d want to add to your living room.

“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.”

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We’re all over the world this month! Heather was in New York City doing the NYNOW trade show , and Donna is in Frankfurt with our European distributor, Barbara Pettignano, where they are taking part in @ambientefair. Barbara is so great to work with, not least because she speaks 5 languages fluently, which means that she’s perfectly at ease handling our wholesale orders from all over Europe. She’s also lots of fun, so she and Donna are having a blast! Read more on the blog this week. . . . #skinnylaminxstockist #skinnylaminxAMBIENTE2020 #teamskinnylaminx #skinnylaminxtravels #tradefair #tradeshow #frankfurt #messefrankfurt #frankfurttradefair #ambiente20 #ambientefair #frankfurtambiente2020

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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.”

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]]> Invite Nature Inside Your Home with Floral Patterns https://5dwallpaper.com/invite-nature-inside-your-home-with-floral-patterns/ Fri, 29 Nov 2019 05:33:18 +0000 https://5dwallpaper.com/?p=106276 Chloe Hall covers the world around her with bright floral patterns. We mean this quite literally. Her colorful designs are printed on anything from prints and cards to textiles and coffee cups. Living and working from her untraditional houseboat based in Leicester, Hall’s inspiration is found right outside her front door. “I think living on […]

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]]> Chloe Hall covers the world around her with bright floral patterns. We mean this quite literally. Her colorful designs are printed on anything from prints and cards to textiles and coffee cups.

Living and working from her untraditional houseboat based in Leicester, Hall’s inspiration is found right outside her front door. “I think living on a boat my whole life has made me into a nature lover!” she writes on her website.

“I’ve been surrounded by nature since I was little and I think I forget that the animals/nature I see isn’t what people see day to day unless you live where I live, so I shouldn’t take it for granted,” she added in an interview with Ohh Deer. “I love being outside and walking and always feel inspired when I’ve spent some time outdoors.”

Her illustrations – made of loose linework and watercolor – invite nature homeward, by celebrating its endless beauty. Hall also makes sure that the majority of the products she sells are packaged in 100% biodegradable and compostable clear corn starch “plastic” bags, and all that her paper goods have been made either using recycled materials or are FSC approved. 

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]]> The Awe-Inspiring Embroideries of Veselka Bulkan https://5dwallpaper.com/the-awe-inspiring-embroideries-of-veselka-bulkan/ Wed, 30 Oct 2019 08:49:22 +0000 https://5dwallpaper.com/?p=106151 Veselka Bulkan’s embroidery work is anything but traditional. Her “Little Herb Bouquet” features felted vegetables that hang from the wooden embroidery hoops, with the leaves remaining withing the hoop. “After several years having fine arts education in painting department, and so with my love of designing new things, I focus on design more and more,” […]

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]]> Veselka Bulkan’s embroidery work is anything but traditional. Her “Little Herb Bouquet” features felted vegetables that hang from the wooden embroidery hoops, with the leaves remaining withing the hoop. “After several years having fine arts education in painting department, and so with my love of designing new things, I focus on design more and more,” she wrote on her website. “I realize how I like to spend quality time to bake. All the sounds of kitchen, and styling. Little Herb Bouquet is inspired by all these thoughts.”

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.

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Many thanks for your comments, and inquiries ❤ Most of the time, I am not able to reply them shortly. However, I am reading all of your messages individually. As you may guess, my lovely baby keeps me so busy 👶🏻Meanwhile, I am also working on baby ultrasound orders. If you have not checked my updated info page about ultrasound embroidery yet, please follow THE LINK IN PROFILE. I hope it helps to reply many of your questions.❤ . . . #dstexture #abmcrafty #dslooking #psimadethis #handsandhustle #myunicornlife #todayslovely #thehappynow #lovelysquares #creativelifehappylife #makeyousmilestyle #fiberart #madetocreate #ministylekids #creativityfound #nothingisordinary #finditliveit #prettylittlething #Livethelittlethings #contemporaryembroidery #ultraschall #imsomartha #slowmotherhood #expecting #inspirepregnancy

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]]> Orly Cogan’s Embroidery Art is Empowering https://5dwallpaper.com/orly-cogans-embroidery-art-is-empowering/ Wed, 23 Oct 2019 09:14:10 +0000 https://5dwallpaper.com/?p=106144 Orly Cogan’s embroidery artworks evolve from personal mythologies and are inspired by relationships. Working with vintage fabrics, as well as found embroideries made by women of previous eras, Cogan acts as a collaborator, modernizing their traditional work and altering its original purpose. After 20 years of collecting vintage fabrics, Cogan has accumulated quite a sizeable […]

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]]> Orly Cogan’s embroidery artworks evolve from personal mythologies and are inspired by relationships. Working with vintage fabrics, as well as found embroideries made by women of previous eras, Cogan acts as a collaborator, modernizing their traditional work and altering its original purpose. After 20 years of collecting vintage fabrics, Cogan has accumulated quite a sizeable collection that serves as the basis for her work.

“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.

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]]> ersion="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> textiles Archives - 5dwallpaper.com Wallpaper Download Thu, 08 Dec 2022 15:43:07 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 Judit Just Weaved Her Way Into Our Hearts https://5dwallpaper.com/judit-just-weaved-her-way-into-our-hearts/ Sat, 10 Dec 2022 08:15:00 +0000 https://5dwallpaper.com/?p=107882 The history of tapestry is fairly ancient. Pieces in wool have been found in a variety of places, including the Hellenistic world and ancient Egypt. Of course, much has changed over the years. Contemporary tapestry has long surpassed the dull wall hangings preserved in castles and museums. However, one contemporary textile artist that stands high above […]

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]]> The history of tapestry is fairly ancient. Pieces in wool have been found in a variety of places, including the Hellenistic world and ancient Egypt. Of course, much has changed over the years. Contemporary tapestry has long surpassed the dull wall hangings preserved in castles and museums.

However, one contemporary textile artist that stands high above the rest is Judit Just.

Originally from Barcelona and currently based in Asheville, Just’s training includes fashion design, sculpture, and textile art, with a special focus on weaving and embroidery. According to Just, she’s been elbows deep in textile ever since she was a little girl as her mother used to weave and sew all the time.

These days, Just’s wall hangings, sold on her etsy shop and shared on her eye-popping Instagram page, stand out not only for her unique weaving technique but for their vibrant colors.

Her work is mostly the result of trial and error, with room for improvising: “Most of my tapestries are just an involuntary result of an improvisation, a dance with colors and materials,” she admitted in an interview with Colossal. “I like to let myself flow and see what it transforms into afterwards.”

Her unique creative process incorporates old weaving techniques and vintage threads. Depending on the type of wall hanging, Just weaves her tapestries with rye knots created either on a lap loom or an eight-harness table loom.

“Once I finish and approve one design, I keep the original in my studio to reproduce it in different color variations,” she explains. “Then I redo them and make them evolve and metamorphose into other creations.”

Prepare to fall in love with a woven wall hanging!

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]]> Highlighting the Fragility of the Human Body Using Fiber https://5dwallpaper.com/highlighting-the-fragility-of-the-human-body-using-fiber/ Sat, 25 Jun 2022 08:48:00 +0000 https://5dwallpaper.com/?p=107871 Here at 5dwallpaper, we often write about exciting new fiber artists. These are artists who use stitch and embroidery in fresh and unique ways. But even amongst fiber artists, Raija Jokinen’s work stands out. Combining sculpture, painting, and textile, her work incorporates techniques used in other mediums, together with embroidery and textile art. Comparing her […]

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]]> Here at 5dwallpaper, we often write about exciting new fiber artists. These are artists who use stitch and embroidery in fresh and unique ways. But even amongst fiber artists, Raija Jokinen’s work stands out.

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.

“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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]]> Maryanne Moodie Explores Raw Emotions Through Weaving https://5dwallpaper.com/maryanne-moodie-explores-raw-emotions-through-weaving/ Thu, 22 Oct 2020 06:59:21 +0000 https://5dwallpaper.com/?p=106305 Maryanne Moodie treats weaving as a form of therapy. “It allows me to explore emotions that I otherwise don’t give myself time to fully appreciate and explore,” she told Created Here. “I like to return to the same moment or emotion a number of times to delve deeper, weaving the same emotion from different angles.” […]

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]]> Maryanne Moodie treats weaving as a form of therapy. “It allows me to explore emotions that I otherwise don’t give myself time to fully appreciate and explore,” she told Created Here. “I like to return to the same moment or emotion a number of times to delve deeper, weaving the same emotion from different angles.”

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.

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]]> Delve Into Weaving with Lucy Poskitt https://5dwallpaper.com/delve-into-weaving-with-lucy-poskitt/ Mon, 20 Jul 2020 06:10:00 +0000 https://5dwallpaper.com/?p=107102 Never in recent modern history has there been a time to dedicate ourselves to a slower, more meaningful pace. Slow living here we come… Our first stop: weaving. Textile Lucy Poskitt is prepared to teach us what it takes. Based in Victoria, BC, she teaches weaving workshops across Canada, but you can also be inspired […]

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]]> Never in recent modern history has there been a time to dedicate ourselves to a slower, more meaningful pace. Slow living here we come… Our first stop: weaving.

Textile Lucy Poskitt is prepared to teach us what it takes. Based in Victoria, BC, she teaches weaving workshops across Canada, but you can also be inspired from afar by following her Instagram page.

Working with a looser and more experimental hand, Poskitt draws inspiration from local landscapes and lore and works with the belief that with the proper techniques under your belt you can confidently create and explore your own style.

According to Poskitt, workshop materials and supplies are locally sourced or handmade when possible.”Most of my professional work is made with traditional materials–wool, linen, and cotton yarn,” she noted in an interview with KOEL Stories. “When I’m creatively stuck or have time to play around, I really enjoy more unusual, less traditional fibers–horsehair, leather scraps, paper, ropes and trims, wood veneer, mylar… you name it!”

Her techniques include frame-loom weaving—a style of weaving that is fast to set up, easy to use, and portable. According to her website, this technique is most often used to make tapestry-style weavings, ie – decorative art pieces that will hang on the wall as art when completed – but looms can also be used for making small pieces that could be used as jewellery, placemats, coasters, a bit of fabric to use as a panel on a cushion, and more.

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]]> The Distinctly Mysterious Textile Art of Anouk Desloges https://5dwallpaper.com/the-distinctly-mysterious-textile-art-of-anouk-desloges/ Sun, 03 May 2020 12:04:00 +0000 https://5dwallpaper.com/?p=106870 Anouk Desloges creates highly crafted and distinctly mysterious textile art that most often than not relies on the practice of embroidery.  The embroidery itself is removed from its traditional support to adorn plastic and metal, with the finished pieces presenting symbolic allegories and literary allusions. “Making things has always been of second nature to me, […]

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]]> Anouk Desloges creates highly crafted and distinctly mysterious textile art that most often than not relies on the practice of embroidery.  The embroidery itself is removed from its traditional support to adorn plastic and metal, with the finished pieces presenting symbolic allegories and literary allusions.

“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.

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]]> Merill Comeau’s Artworks Are Made of Hundreds of Snippets of Fabric https://5dwallpaper.com/merill-comeaus-artworks-are-made-of-hundreds-of-snippets-of-fabric/ Fri, 01 May 2020 12:05:00 +0000 https://5dwallpaper.com/?p=106871 Merill Comeau’s art is an experimentation of sorts. Made of hundreds of snippets of fabric (that include deconstructed clothing, old linens, and plastic net bags), her pieces employ the traditional methods of sewing in new ways, probing the tension between old and new, art and craft. “Much of the fabric I stitch resist, paint, and […]

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]]> Merill Comeau’s art is an experimentation of sorts. Made of hundreds of snippets of fabric (that include deconstructed clothing, old linens, and plastic net bags), her pieces employ the traditional methods of sewing in new ways, probing the tension between old and new, art and craft.

“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.

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]]> A Dash of Color, a Pop of Pattern: Skinny laMinx’s Products Will Delight You https://5dwallpaper.com/a-dash-of-color-a-pop-of-pattern-skinny-laminxs-products-will-delight-you/ Thu, 12 Mar 2020 06:00:00 +0000 https://5dwallpaper.com/?p=106643 South African designer and illustrator Heather Moore makes textiles and homeware out of good vibes and sunshine. With a background in illustration, she creates clean illustrated patterns which she then screenprints onto the fabric that is cut and sewn into products like cushions, tea towels, and table runners. The result is both uplifting and playful […]

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]]> South African designer and illustrator Heather Moore makes textiles and homeware out of good vibes and sunshine. With a background in illustration, she creates clean illustrated patterns which she then screenprints onto the fabric that is cut and sewn into products like cushions, tea towels, and table runners. The result is both uplifting and playful – that colorful touch you’d want to add to your living room.

“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.”

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We’re all over the world this month! Heather was in New York City doing the NYNOW trade show , and Donna is in Frankfurt with our European distributor, Barbara Pettignano, where they are taking part in @ambientefair. Barbara is so great to work with, not least because she speaks 5 languages fluently, which means that she’s perfectly at ease handling our wholesale orders from all over Europe. She’s also lots of fun, so she and Donna are having a blast! Read more on the blog this week. . . . #skinnylaminxstockist #skinnylaminxAMBIENTE2020 #teamskinnylaminx #skinnylaminxtravels #tradefair #tradeshow #frankfurt #messefrankfurt #frankfurttradefair #ambiente20 #ambientefair #frankfurtambiente2020

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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.”

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]]> Invite Nature Inside Your Home with Floral Patterns https://5dwallpaper.com/invite-nature-inside-your-home-with-floral-patterns/ Fri, 29 Nov 2019 05:33:18 +0000 https://5dwallpaper.com/?p=106276 Chloe Hall covers the world around her with bright floral patterns. We mean this quite literally. Her colorful designs are printed on anything from prints and cards to textiles and coffee cups. Living and working from her untraditional houseboat based in Leicester, Hall’s inspiration is found right outside her front door. “I think living on […]

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]]> Chloe Hall covers the world around her with bright floral patterns. We mean this quite literally. Her colorful designs are printed on anything from prints and cards to textiles and coffee cups.

Living and working from her untraditional houseboat based in Leicester, Hall’s inspiration is found right outside her front door. “I think living on a boat my whole life has made me into a nature lover!” she writes on her website.

“I’ve been surrounded by nature since I was little and I think I forget that the animals/nature I see isn’t what people see day to day unless you live where I live, so I shouldn’t take it for granted,” she added in an interview with Ohh Deer. “I love being outside and walking and always feel inspired when I’ve spent some time outdoors.”

Her illustrations – made of loose linework and watercolor – invite nature homeward, by celebrating its endless beauty. Hall also makes sure that the majority of the products she sells are packaged in 100% biodegradable and compostable clear corn starch “plastic” bags, and all that her paper goods have been made either using recycled materials or are FSC approved. 

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]]> The Awe-Inspiring Embroideries of Veselka Bulkan https://5dwallpaper.com/the-awe-inspiring-embroideries-of-veselka-bulkan/ Wed, 30 Oct 2019 08:49:22 +0000 https://5dwallpaper.com/?p=106151 Veselka Bulkan’s embroidery work is anything but traditional. Her “Little Herb Bouquet” features felted vegetables that hang from the wooden embroidery hoops, with the leaves remaining withing the hoop. “After several years having fine arts education in painting department, and so with my love of designing new things, I focus on design more and more,” […]

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]]> Veselka Bulkan’s embroidery work is anything but traditional. Her “Little Herb Bouquet” features felted vegetables that hang from the wooden embroidery hoops, with the leaves remaining withing the hoop. “After several years having fine arts education in painting department, and so with my love of designing new things, I focus on design more and more,” she wrote on her website. “I realize how I like to spend quality time to bake. All the sounds of kitchen, and styling. Little Herb Bouquet is inspired by all these thoughts.”

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.

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Many thanks for your comments, and inquiries ❤ Most of the time, I am not able to reply them shortly. However, I am reading all of your messages individually. As you may guess, my lovely baby keeps me so busy 👶🏻Meanwhile, I am also working on baby ultrasound orders. If you have not checked my updated info page about ultrasound embroidery yet, please follow THE LINK IN PROFILE. I hope it helps to reply many of your questions.❤ . . . #dstexture #abmcrafty #dslooking #psimadethis #handsandhustle #myunicornlife #todayslovely #thehappynow #lovelysquares #creativelifehappylife #makeyousmilestyle #fiberart #madetocreate #ministylekids #creativityfound #nothingisordinary #finditliveit #prettylittlething #Livethelittlethings #contemporaryembroidery #ultraschall #imsomartha #slowmotherhood #expecting #inspirepregnancy

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]]> Orly Cogan’s Embroidery Art is Empowering https://5dwallpaper.com/orly-cogans-embroidery-art-is-empowering/ Wed, 23 Oct 2019 09:14:10 +0000 https://5dwallpaper.com/?p=106144 Orly Cogan’s embroidery artworks evolve from personal mythologies and are inspired by relationships. Working with vintage fabrics, as well as found embroideries made by women of previous eras, Cogan acts as a collaborator, modernizing their traditional work and altering its original purpose. After 20 years of collecting vintage fabrics, Cogan has accumulated quite a sizeable […]

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]]> Orly Cogan’s embroidery artworks evolve from personal mythologies and are inspired by relationships. Working with vintage fabrics, as well as found embroideries made by women of previous eras, Cogan acts as a collaborator, modernizing their traditional work and altering its original purpose. After 20 years of collecting vintage fabrics, Cogan has accumulated quite a sizeable collection that serves as the basis for her work.

“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.

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