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The dress in 2019 . The Red Dress is an international collaborative embroidery project, created from 2009 to 2022 and coordinated by Somerset-based British artist Kirstie Macleod.
Sonya Clark (born 1967, Washington, D.C.) [1] is an American artist of Afro-Caribbean heritage. Clark is a fiber artist known for using a variety of materials including human hair and combs to address race, culture, class, and history. [2]
Published quarterly and distributed to all HGA Members, Shuttle Spindle & Dyepot features a broad spectrum of articles about the fiber arts, including design, history, shows, education, products, books, national and international textile news, as well as updates about HGA programs and people, and information received from local and regional ...
William Morris, 1834-1896: A Life of Art. Taschen. ISBN 9783836561631. Beecroft, Helen (2019). William Morris. Flame Tree Publishing. ISBN 978-1-78755-307-1. Fairclough, Oliver and Emmeline Leary, Textiles by William Morris and Morris & Co. 1861–1940, Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery, 1981, ISBN 0-89860-065-0
Spouses Cassidy and Jessica Forbes founded Ravelry in May 2007. [2] Their idea was to create a web presence for all fiber artists. Ravelry is a place for knitters, crocheters, designers, spinners, and dyers to keep track of their yarn, tools and pattern information, and look to others for ideas and inspiration.
Fiber art (fibre art in British spelling) refers to fine art whose material consists of natural or synthetic fiber and other components, such as fabric or yarn. It focuses on the materials and on the manual labor on the part of the artist as part of the works' significance, and prioritizes aesthetic value over utility.
Sheila Hicks at the Musée Carnavalet, Paris, 2016. Photograph by Cristobal Zanartu. From 1959 to 1964 she resided and worked in Mexico; She moved to Taxco el Viejo, Mexico [7] where she began weaving, painting, and teaching at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) at the invitation of Mathias Goeritz who also introduced her to the architects Luis Barragán and Ricardo Legorreta ...
Yarn bombing (or yarnbombing) is a type of graffiti or street art that employs colourful displays of knitted or crocheted yarn or fibre rather than paint or chalk. It is also called wool bombing , yarn storming , guerrilla knitting , kniffiti , urban knitting , or graffiti knitting .