Amanda Cobbett suspends a singular moment in the fleeting lives of fungi by stitching their likeness in thread. The textile artist photographs and gathers specimens that she brings back to her Surrey Hills-based studio, where she finds fibers to match pale green lichens and golden chanterelles. Using a free-motion embroidery technique on a sewing machine, she then stitches multiple layers onto a piece of dissolvable fabric that, once the organism is complete, is washed away to leave just the mushroom or mossy bark intact. More
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Amanda Cobbett suspends a singular moment in the fleeting lives of fungi by stitching their likeness in thread. The textile artist photographs and gathers specimens that she brings back to her Surrey Hills-based studio, where she finds fibers to match pale green lichens and golden chanterelles. Using a free-motion embroidery technique on a sewing machine, she then stitches multiple layers onto a piece of dissolvable fabric that, once the organism is complete, is washed away to leave just the mushroom or mossy bark intact. More
Amanda Cobbett suspends a singular moment in the fleeting lives of fungi by stitching their likeness in thread. The textile artist photographs and gathers specimens that she brings back to her Surrey Hills-based studio, where she finds fibers to match pale green lichens and golden chanterelles. Using a free-motion embroidery technique on a sewing machine, she then stitches multiple layers onto a piece of dissolvable fabric that, once the organism is complete, is washed away to leave just the mushroom or mossy bark intact. More
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Discover 10 contemporary textile artists inspired by nature that you HAVE to follow. This is ground breaking, innovative, inspirational art.
Amanda Cobbett suspends a singular moment in the fleeting lives of fungi by stitching their likeness in thread. The textile artist photographs and gathers specimens that she brings back to her Surrey Hills-based studio, where she finds fibers to match pale green lichens and golden chanterelles. Using a free-motion embroidery technique on a sewing machine, she then stitches multiple layers onto a piece of dissolvable fabric that, once the organism is complete, is washed away to leave just the mushroom or mossy bark intact. More
With a keen eye for detail, Amanda Cobbett embroiders hyperrealistic fungi, mosses, and lichen with painstaking precision.
Dutch artist Lizan Freijsen explores our relationship to fungi, stains, mold, and moisture through modes of interior design. Freijsen creates rugs (as well as wallpapers and blankets) that mimic the unique patterns of natural formations in states of growth and decay. Each carpet has its own shape and color palette, and is comprised of concentric rings—some with eccentrically squiggling edges and others with more simple circles. To produce these often large-scale textiles, Freijsen partners with Hester Onijs and Karen Zeedijk at the Textile Museum in Tilburg, NL. More
As well as dyeing textiles for clothing, natural dyes can be used in lots of homecrafts - you'll find a few ideas at the bottom of this post.
Early dyers relied on easily obtained natural materials to add color to their textiles. Natural dyestuffs come from flowering plants, bark, fungi, lichens, insects, shellfish and various ‘ea…
These knitted fungi were created by fiber artist and nature enthusiast Leigh Martin, who is knitting a fantastic series of 52 forms of fungi.
With a keen eye for detail, Amanda Cobbett embroiders hyperrealistic fungi, mosses, and lichen with painstaking precision.
As well as dyeing textiles for clothing, natural dyes can be used in lots of homecrafts - you'll find a few ideas at the bottom of this post.
This stuff on some rocks surrounding a rural riverside parking area looks like nondescript chalky off-white splotches as you drive (or even walk) by; but get down! …and be treated to an unant…
As well as dyeing textiles for clothing, natural dyes can be used in lots of homecrafts - you'll find a few ideas at the bottom of this post.
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Canadian artist Hannah Kwasnycia stitches embroidery hoops inspired by moss, lichen, coral, mold, and bacteria cultures. Colorful strands are layered to form three-dimensional representations of living organisms. Kwasnycia freehands the abstract compositions, which means that no two hoops are ever the same. Variation in stitching patterns, as well as occasional beading and sequins, give the embroidery texture and depth. Shapes are defined by changes in hue, but the limited color palettes bring each design together as one natural colony. More
Amanda Cobbett suspends a singular moment in the fleeting lives of fungi by stitching their likeness in thread. The textile artist photographs and gathers specimens that she brings back to her Surrey Hills-based studio, where she finds fibers to match pale green lichens and golden chanterelles. Using a free-motion embroidery technique on a sewing machine, she then stitches multiple layers onto a piece of dissolvable fabric that, once the organism is complete, is washed away to leave just the mushroom or mossy bark intact. More
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As well as dyeing textiles for clothing, natural dyes can be used in lots of homecrafts - you'll find a few ideas at the bottom of this post.
* These super elaborate embroidered and beaded fiber pieces by Amy Gross are her attempt to merge the natural observable world with her own inner life. What a labor of love her work is! Here I am s…
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