Martha’s blog Your Daily Art provides a brief snips of art history and links to resources and further information about artists, movements, and techniques.
I am seeing ways to embellish recycled denim bags all over the place now. I discovered this tutorial on how to make a Needle felted flower on the craftlog site. I thought some of the people who read this would find it useful.
Frances Pickering is a contemporary textile and book artist who has done and taught the City & Guilds courses and lives in Kent, Britain. Frances has produced a series of hand made books that are a personal response to battlefield landscapes and the poetry of the First World War. I …
The Surface Design Organization aims to “increase awareness, understanding, and appreciation of textiles in the art and design communities as well as in the general public.” If you are feeling a little flat and looking for a bit of inspiration browse through the gallery of contemporary textiles as it always …
There is a bit more news on the Bags of Fun challenge. Firstly Allison Aller has chopped off a pair of jeans and has an image on her works in progress blog. Arlee of Albedo Design is also excited judging by the comment she left yesterday. Beche-la-mer of Two Cents …
The Design Directory is a database of links to resources that relate to design and affiliated areas. Articles, forums, events, organizations and galleries are just a few of the areas covered. Some subject areas are stronger than others but browsing areas such fashion design should turn up a few interesting …
Well I am really excited about the denim bag challenge as people are joining and the group is growing nicely. Actually I am stupidly delighted at the amount of people who are going to join. You have to visualise a plump middle aged woman singing with an Aussie accent around …
