Agnes Herczeg, a Hungarian artist, creates artwork using lace. Some of her best works can be seen here.
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Remember my latch hook weaving tutorial? Well, take that and times it by a thousand and you’ll find yourself oohing and aahing over the work of Portuguese textile artist Vanessa Barragao. Inspired by the ocean and the…
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Images via Koron007 Centuries ago, fabric was a rare and precious commodity only the wealthy could afford. So people treasured old and
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Welcome to my gallery Here you will find many examples of the larger wall art pieces that I have created over time. A lot of these art works have been in exhibitions and art show, some have won pri…
It’s hard to believe that yet another summer is coming to an end. Honestly, where does all the time go? With my kids starting kindergarten and preschool this fall, you can bet I’ve been holding…
Aujourd’hui, je vous propose le travail de Catherine Tourel. Vous connaissez peut-être Catherine grâce à ses livres de patchwork traditionnel, et même country, mais j’ai découvert à Sainte Marie une autre facette de son travail, un travail de matière très graphique, un vrai coup de coeur pour moi! Très beau mélange de matières, et broderies … Continuer la lecture de L’artiste du vendredi : Catherine Tourel →
Enter Etsy Shop here Please visit Salley Mavor’s Etsy Shop, to see a selection of autographed books, puzzles, notebooks, prints, posters, note cards, and bookmarks that feature her artwork.Fr…
As I scrolled through Instagram on my phone while I had breakfast (we all do that, right?) I saw that @berry_birdy had put out a fun new challenge. Each May, Lesley hosts the Micro Mini Stitch Along #microminisal where we get to play and create little quilts, no bigger than 8" square. The challenge set yesterday was called "Treasure from Trash". We were to use only scraps that were in our bin. Fun! As my sewing room bin was emptied the day before for bin night, I had quite limited scraps available to play with. I only had little bits and pieces that I'd trimmed when preparing rainbow applique blocks (you can see these in my previous post). With a small piece of batting from a previous project, I started out by creating a background. I placed pieces down to cover the batting and sewed some very "rustic" lines to hold everything in place. Last week, I watched some of the Making Zen video classes and one class was by @southerngals_designs. In the class, Tiffany showed us how she uses the teeniest pieces of fabric, glue and thread to create an eye. She then uses these little eye panels on other projects. I set out by cutting the white piece and blue pieces of fabric to make the basic eyeball shape. The upper and lower eyelids were then built up using teeny scraps, held down with just a regular school glue stick. Once I was happy with the layout, I roughly went over the eyelids and sewed the pieces in place. Now for the fun bit, adding hand stitches. Rather than cut thread to add some little decorative stitches, I used to use embroidery floss regularly and would keep the spare threads which I'd split from the floss, in a little pocket in the floss tub. These were great for this project. I had lots of colours available to use and I had two strands of black. Perfect! I added straight stitches, little crosses and outlined the white of the eyeball in black, which kinda looks like eyeliner. I was thinking of adding eyelashes, but figured I should stop before I got tooooo carried away. I added a small piece of fabric to the back (from my scrap bags) of the piece and sewed right around the edge (rectangle). Pinking shears finished it off. The piece measure approximately 2.5" x 5.5" and I had a lot of fun making it. I'll probably end up using it as a bookmark. This image shows the scraps that I had left over after this exercise. They're now back in the bin... unless another trash challenge is set. If you're interested in the Micro Mini Stitch Along and checking what everyone is making with their trash treasures, you can find it on Instagram by searching the hashtag #microminisal.
Hungarian fiber artist Ágnes Herczeg (previously) continues to create delicate depictions of quiet moments. Formed from colorful lace and found wood, each small scene floats in mid-air and is attached to a piece of wood. Whereas in previous work, Herczeg used unusually shaped wood fragments as part of the figural elements of the scenes, in her more recent pieces the wood acts as a frame. You can see more of the artist’s work on her website and Instagram. More
Issue 35 of Frrresh, the online visual arts magazine.
