A selection of colouring pages on Art, History, Religion are available on the on the Best of Kids site. These images can easily be adapted for needlework and embroidery projects. There are famous paintings, historical images and images drawn from mythology such as dragons, fairies, mermaids and unicorns. Thanks for …
Mark Boulton has written 2 articles in a series titled Five Simple Steps to designing with colour. The series is aimed at web designers but much of what he says can be applied to textile design. The first article covers working with tone and the second part covers colour terminology …
Celestial seasonings (the people who produce tea) have published some wonderful colouring pages that can be easily adapted for embroidery. Thanks for the link goes to Shay Toner who dropped me an email about it.
Selling crafts online is a series of 15 articles covering such topics as, photographing your wares, describing the product, shipping methods, and then goes on to examine a number of options for selling crafts online. The series then examines various websites against a set of criteria. Since the author is …
My post yesterday provoked a few comments one of which came Virginia Burnett pointing out that people think textiles should be functional. I agree this is a commonly held belief but it is one that comes from a single cultural viewpoint even if it is a dominant one! We live …
The Macclesfield Silk Museum looks to house an interesting collection of approximately 4000 items which includes items large and small from 26 jacquard handlooms to silk covered buttons. The collection is described as containing silk machinery, equipment, tools, textiles and costume but the items that caught my eye is the …
Many quilters ask why is it that textiles can not get the same price as paintings or the ‘fine arts’. Why are they valued as lesser items because they are textiles? This is an important question because so many textile artists battle to earn even a part time living from …
