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]]>Zapata is a Texas native who creates intriguing textile art installations that feature high columns or various grounded shapes covered in fabric. Her works transform the space, taking the viewer on an exciting journey through the world of fabric one piece at a time.
“I’m always thinking about how to occupy opposites and how to really be both and neither,” Zapata explained her approach to installations in a recent chat with Colossal. “I’m always trying to lean into this in-between space, not only physically but thinking about that in terms of time and accessing past, futurity, existing in the present, always this amorphous sense of time.”
Zapata’s art is strongly influenced by the textile traditions from Peru, the country where her father was born. Textile has played a major part in Peruvian history, and artworks using fabric can be dated back to the Paracas people, who lived in the area around 600 BC. Textile still has an important role in Peruvian culture, being used in ceremonies or as gifts for special occasions.
You will be able to see Zapata’s works in person at some of her upcoming exhibitions in Kansas City’s Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art. If you can’t make it there, check out some of her textile art below.
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]]>Videira creates intricate textile sculptures by interlinking wool yarn into various types of objects. His complex works vary in size and shape, consisting of thousands of threads meticulously lined up to form mesmerizing vibrant patterns inspired by geometry.
He developed a fondness for wool yarn thanks to his mother, who made Arraiolos rugs as a hobby. Now, he uses the same type of wool for his sculptures.
“Its characteristics—resistance, malleability, texture, and color—make it special and distinct from other natural fibers. And my work reflects this difference,” Videira revealed in a recent chat with My Modern Met.
Besides his textile sculptures, Videira makes other wool yarn objects and artworks. This includes wool paintings and wool-decorated furniture like chairs and benches.
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]]>The illustrator and designer behind the South African label Skinny laMinx (named after her Siamese cat), Moore’s recipe is simple: mix together a love of pattern, a cute shop, a top-notch team, and top it all off with equal parts playful and chic: “Pattern makes us happy, color makes us feel good!”, reads her Instagram bio, and boy do we agree.
Moore’s blooming business began relatively small. After 10 years of freelancing, she opened a blog and an Etsy shop in 2007, where she sold her simple, clear screen printed tea towels and hand-cut fridge magnets. By 2009 the business was so busy with retail and wholesale orders that she quit her comics-writing job.
These days, her brand includes a store and studio in Cape Town, where Moore employs a team of 15 women. Her product range has also grown over the years and now includes anything from pillows to furniture, becoming a beloved lifestyle brand both home and abroad.
Ever the creative, when it comes to inspiration, Moore admits she finds plenty of it: “It’s kind of silly to say this, but I really am inspired by just about anything and everything!”, she admitted once in an interview with Sweet Paul Magazine.
She noted that she’s inspired by things such as the holes in a piece of cheese, her dreams and desires while flipping through an IKEA catalog, ancient rock art on cave walls, and the dishes on her shelves at home.
All of Skinny laMinx’s designs are screen printed in Cape Town (with an added dose of African chic), and everything is cut and stitched by a small sewing team in the studio above our shop, making her products both ethical and local. “In general, I like design that is concise and fits its purpose,” says Moore. “If it manages to do these things while being elegantly exuberant too, that makes me happy.”
Add a dose of happiness to your home!
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]]>But surprisingly, as a fashion designer, Gilbertson rarely worked with embroidery or hand stitching. “The act of hand stitching is still very traditional and loaded with meaning,” she shared with Venison Magazine. “Visually I want to create something modern and relevant to contemporary art today and the digital references are formed through the design of the artwork,” she adds.
As she explores the relationship between the handmade and the digital, Gilbertson hopes to push the boundaries of contemporary embroidery and elevate stitched work to a higher level, ideally putting it on a par with other art forms. Her work includes color studies of gradients moving through shades and single colour studies and exploration of fades, gradients and geometry, as she explores the ways in which our eyes and mind react when confronted with an unusual presentation of color. “I like the visual and conceptual link between a pixel and a stitch, the digital and traditional,” notes Gilbertson.
“Sometimes I plan out a work in advance digitally and intricately,” she says of her artistic process, “sometimes I just stitch straight onto the canvas with only a vague plan in mind. Both methods work.” Check out some of her mesmerizing work in the gallery below:
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]]>But things weren’t as straight forward as it might seem. “In the past, I often tried to teach myself embroidery,” admitted Case on a blog post published on her website. “I’d buy the books! I’d buy the fabric! I’d buy the floss! And the hoops! And the needles! PHEW… And then I’d promptly get ‘too busy’ and put them away in the cupboard. Only to pick them up a couple of months later and start the process all over again. I’d get so excited to do something creative and then KAPUT I’d give up.”
Then, according to her, something quite extraordinary happened and she had to take some unexpected time off work because of a bout of illness. “I needed something that I could do at home,” she writes, “that would entertain me but also was calming, relaxing and creative.”
And so, inspired by her grandmother, she took – once again – to embroidery. “Embroidery became this mindful experience for me,” says Case. “Something that made me feel uplifted but at ease. I’d become so connected to screens, to work, to getting it all done; embroidery was able to be the antithesis of that.”
Now she shares this passion with others, creating modern hoop art and one of a kind jewelry pieces which you can also admire through her Instagram page.
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]]>Describing herself as a fiber-obsessed maker, Moodie is best known for applying unexpected color combinations to her nostalgic textile designs. Working between Melbourne and Brooklyn, NY, she divides her time between designing and creating woven wall hangings, developing weaving kits, and teaching sold-out workshops across the world.
hello and good morning from my beautiful studio. Feeling like the person who has it all this morning after a brilliant fun love fest at golden plains festival on the weekend. Thankful to family for taking the kids. And thankful for this glorious sunny crisp morning. I’m ready to take on the world.“Weaving is something that I am passionate about and get great pleasure from, and so I am able to use my expertise in education to share this passion with others,” she says. “I do love the art of weaving, but the best and most important part of my work is in education. The love and inspiration and energy that I get from my students is the most important part in moving this craft forward and creating newness.”
According to her website, her work is greatly inspired by the intricacies of vintage textiles, traditional costuming, and modern art, as well as the natural world. With a whopping 120k followers on Instagram, and features in publications like New York Magazine, Anthology, and O Magazine – Moodie clearly knows what she’s doing.
You can purchase her pieces on Etsy and through online shops and boutiques around the country, or simply enjoy them from afar through Instagram.
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I’ve received a lot of inquiries about upcoming shows, so here are some dates you can mark on your calendar! . First up is TEN: Paradigm’s 10th Anniversary Celebration /// Friday, February 28th from 5:30-10 PM /// 746 S 4th St, Philly PA. Featuring 120+ artists that they have worked with since they opened their doors in 2010. This show is going to be AMAZING
. Next is Art on Paper /// Thursday, March 5 (preview night) through Sunday March 8th /// Pier 36, Downtown Manhattan NY, 299 South Street /// Check out my work at booth A05 with @paradigmgs . And finally…my first solo show in 3 years will be at Paradigm Gallery on May 22nd!!! I am so incredibly excited to share this new collection with you that I have been pouring my heart into for the past few yearsHer creative process is half planned, half left to chance. Often, Kozma uses dice as a way of determining which colors to use, while other times she will draw a thousand tiny bricks by hand. According to her, combining these methods creates an organic rhythm that could not exist if she were making all of the choices solely on her own accord.
“I don’t really know where I fit into the contemporary art scene,” she admitted in an interview with Textile Artist. “Sometimes I wonder if I should be making things that are more on trend or would appeal to the masses. I still struggle with posts that don’t get many likes, and question how I could be cooler/better, essentially more popular–HA! But then I check in with myself and I know that this work is meaningful to me and that I’m telling stories. Storytelling is timeless, like textiles in general.”
Having received her BFA from Moore College of Art & Design, her untraditional work has been featured in several solo and group shows in Philadelphia as well as New York, Delaware, and Miami, Florida for Art Basel.”Sitting down and making art at the end of the day, grounds me and gives me time to breathe, process, and breakdown the day,” she says.
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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.“I came up with an idea of a baby ultrasound embroidery and announcing my pregnancy this way,” explained the German embroiderer on her website. “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.”
But what began as a personal and unique way of announcing her pregnancy turned into a viral phenomenon. “I have got many inquiries after my announcement, and after I while, I started to accept custom orders,” Bulkan relayed. “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.”
After too many offers to count, she decided to share her knowledge with others, providing a Baby Ultrasound Embroidery Tutorial which is now a best seller on Etsy. “For about two years, I have spent so many hours analyzing many ultrasounds, practicing new techniques to optimize the process,” Bulkan writes. “And now, I am sharing with you all my experiences within that tutorial! I hope you will enjoy it, and follow along with me on this experience.”
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For about two years, I have spent so many hours analysing many ultrasounds, practising new techniques to optimize the process. And now, I am sharing with you all my experiences within that tutorial! I hope you will enjoy it, and follow along with me on this experience 
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]]>But then, this isn’t your traditional embroidery work. Rather, her textile work is meant to look like expressionistic paintings, with the needlework imitating brushstrokes. “In the beginning, I felt that my work looked a bit like topography; a two-dimensional, birds-eye version of the map of a face,” said Kerrison. “As my work has developed it has become more and more complex, taking on more of an expressionistic, brushstroke approach.”
Using a range of unconventional and improvisational approaches to her work, her pieces take well over 250 hours to complete. Once she’s picked a subject matter, she sketches it a number of times before scanning and printing the chosen sketch. She then uses a lightbox, tracing on the black of the design using a heat transferable fabric pen, after which she irons the design onto a piece of fabric, attaches it to a hoop or frame and finally begins to sew.
“I just zone in and enjoy the flow and movement of the embroidery,” she describes the process itself. Here are some highlights from her Instagram page.
) Very limited space for personalised Instagram portraits! Here is the wonderful Jera and Tuesday Bassen as samples for the kind of thing which you could commission. Get in my DMs to order yours ASAP to make sure they are made and reach you before Xmas. Each item is completely hand embroidered onto high quality backing felt and sewn using DMC threads. £85 in p&p + depending on detail and any additional colour fill. . .. . .. . .. . .. . .. . #embroidery #embroideryart #portrait #threadpainting #threads #dmcthreads #hoopart #textileart #textiles #felt #cotton #faces #instagram #selfie #personalized #customartThe post The Expressionistic, Raw Embroideries of Sorrell Chrystal Kerrison appeared first on MyTrendTales.
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]]>With her mother and grandmothers all being gifted seamstresses, it was only a matter of time before Cobbett followed suit. After studying at Chelsea College of Art (UAL), she worked in the printed textile design industry, but a move to the country and a gift of an old Bernina sewing machine changed her course of action. And so, her long-held desire to be a maker, as well as a designer, finally came to fruition, through her reimagined forests.
“I love intricacy and adding my own little secret threads to the work that might not be obvious at the time but in a certain light, they shine out or sparkle,” she shared in an interview with the Voice of London. Inspired by the forest floor, she constantly scours her surroundings, seeking hidden treasures, and photographing and collecting fallen debris. Those are later recreated using approximately 130,000 individual stitches a day.
“Someone said to me recently that when someone asks me how long each piece takes to make that I should say that it’s taken me 22 years of experience to get to this point,” she says. “I think sometimes we forget that a person’s ability to make something isn’t based on the actual time it took to make.”
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