How to use Shisha glass in embroidery is explained and illustrated in diagrams on the Rajmahal site . On the same site there is also information on using metal threads for gold work techniques. Possibly most useful on the site as there is not a lot online about Tambour embroidery …
Many people are storing and archiving images of their work on CD. Not only family happy snaps from digital cameras but textile artists are archiving images of their work using this format. Many people are unaware of the problem, I didn’t realise that some CDs only have a life span …
Lindsay Landis has published an article Taking Professional Looking Photos Without a Professional which many textile artists will find helpful, as it is a tutorial that covers not only taking photos but editing images in Photoshop. Sorry removed the link as it was out of date and went nowhere! Follow …
Detailed instructions on how to make fabric postcards are provided by Arbee Designs in PDF format which means you need Adobe Acrobat reader installed to access it. On the subject of fabric postcards take a look at what Australia Post did to Caitlin’s fabric post card. Technically they ‘opened it’ …
Art Biz Blog explores the impact blogs are having on art and how artists can use the genre as a means to promote their work. The author Alyson Stanfield is an art marketing consultant.
Last month I mentioned in this post that a particular quilt has been haunting me since I saw it in 2000. Annie Whitsed and myself took in the “Historic Australian Quilts”exhibition put together by Annette Gero and at the time we were both struck by a particular quilt made by …
Mary-Frances Main of Frequently Wrong, But Never in Doubt , has posted a request for an example of your worst and best designed crazy quilt blocks in order to use them as examples in a crazy quilt class the Rocky Mountain Crazy Quilters in Colorado are going to run. She …
