Kathryn Clark is a fiber artist from San Francisco, CA. I met her online, in 2010, and we have been digital friends ever since. We did a fun project together last summer, after which she took off doing very interesting, intelligent and politically inspired things with textile. Her recent series of pretty abstract quilts deals [...]
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Women, wit and daily life: an interview with Caren Garfen
Caren Garfen, Wafer Thin, screen print and embroidery on linen Women, daily life, the use of text and humor in artworks: Caren Garfen is about all the things I like. I met this London artist at Origin – the # 1 British craft fair – last fall. I wrote about her work earlier here. [...]
Ollie Zwitserlood, knitwear
Ollie Zwitserlood is a producer of beautiful knitwear who is curiously little known in Holland. Which is why she sells almost her entire stock at Origin in London, each fall. I have known and admired her since 1990 when I was a journalist and wrote an article about Dutch knitwear artists for Elsevier. You can [...]
Anja Brunt, designer, Holland: an interview
Happy faces by Anja Brunt Anja Brunt is a graphic designer from Amsterdam. Somewhere, at some point, I came across her happy faces made from old blankets. I was in awe – lots of people make crafty things out of blankets nowadays, but none as elegant, as simple and as beautiful as these. By now [...]
Sewing leather with a plain sewing machine!
Sister Van Uden is a devout lady. She spends her days handcrafting teacozies made out of old blankets and thanking Him for the blessing of eiderdowns. That nice woman asked me to share a booth with her at the craft fair De Hippe Markt, in Utrecht, next weekend over at the Griftpark (June 12 and [...]
Tilleke Schwarz, textile artist, Holland: an interview
Always, 2007, 70 x 54 cm, all pictures provided by Tilleke Schwarz Tilleke Schwarz is a Dutch artist who does embroidery in a unique, personal style that is reminiscent of graffity, sketchbooks and samplers. I first saw her work at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York in 2008 (in an exhibition called: [...]
Chopping up felted sweaters..
inside out.. We don’t always like to talk about it, but I will today. It was one of those weeks. Where things don’t exactly go the way you want them to. First off it is a school holiday week. weird bubbles in funny places.. I had planned to finish a portrait quickly but I am [...]
Introducing the I-apron
This week I have not found time to do any of the drawings that live in my mind. Sometimes life just takes precedence. I try not to fret. I did some sewing however. Remember how happy I was to find a solution for carrying my phone, Ipod and other much needed items around the house? [...]
Swiss Fiber artist: Malou Zryd
My husband brought home a patchwork catalogue from Switserland last weekend in which I found this amazingly beautiful needlework by Malou Zryd (Patchwork contemporain Suisse & Europeen) There is little information on her website, alas. An tiny article in Profil Femme says she used to do embroider small pieces by hand but recently took to [...]
Textile Museum Tilburg 2
So – inside the Tilburg textile Museum: one of the modern weaving machines. Right here weaving insect teatowels designed by Studio Job. Techniques practised in the museum ‘lab’ are knitting, embroidery, weaving, printing, tufting, lasering and dying. Commissions by artists (Janpeter Muilwijk on the right). Reminders of the blanket factory – skilfully stylised – [...]
Life Is A Rabbit and a visit to the famous Tilburgs Textile Weekend
Woven rendering of a drawing by Janpeter Muilwijk, Textile Museum Tilburg, home of the famous Dutch Textile Museum, hosts a textile weekend every year. The museum and lots of galleries all over town show everything textile, most of it very artful, some only vaguely connected to fiber. My friend Juliet and I went there yesterday. [...]
30 days of Side Stitch
Kathryn and I did it! We worked our way through an entire month of Side Stiches. Kathryn Clarke, a San Francisco based fiber artist, made small textile studies and I cut and sewed and painted over yesterday’s newspapers every morning. The idea was to start each day with half an hour of creative play – [...]
Broddellap / scrap
What pleases me most after several days of sewing daily half hour sketches on paper – the Side Stitch project? Right. The piece of material I use to practice stitches and tension on. I think the colour scheme is awesome and it’s better abstract art than I could ever make if I consciously tried! I [...]
Textile market, lapjesmarkt Utrecht
I needed some material to cover the tables the Fishes and birds book is going to be exhibited on so we went to the local Utrecht textile market this saturday morning. Thought I’d share some pictures of this fantastic market for those of you who like textile. It has been held every saturday for ages. [...]
POLKA DOTS 3
I finished the polka dot quilt today. Well, to be honest it needs some extra work. It is not hanging totally straight so it needs to come down again. Reupholstering the couch is next. Whoever said summer vacations are for relaxing?
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