Design Sponge visits 5 designers from Sydney
Design Sponge has to be one of my favorite blogs for eye-candy and now I discovered these regional roundups that they are doing. Sure you will enjoy them as well. This is based on Sydney. You will get to meet 5 amazing designers from the area - Kareena Zerefos - an illustrator, Dieu Tan - [...]
Lisa Shepard part of roundtable discussion of African American Quilters
Do you have plans to be in Philly this Memorial Day weekend? If so, you should visit Lisa Shepard at the African American Museum in Philadelphia on Saturday, May 23, 2008. She will join a panel of distinguished quilt artists for a roundtable discussion from 1 to 3 pm. You can also [...]
Manon Gignoux´s love for wear and tear
Manon Gignoux makes clothes, accessories, jewellry and home decor from pieces of fabric. I think she has a wonderful way to combine (muted) colors and to transform worn down fabric into something comfortable, soft and inviting.
“The origins of my work can be traced back to my last year of study at France’s Duperré School of [...]
Annie Sherburne, an artist feature
Annie Sherburne is a talented textile artist, with a deep passion for eco-friendly and fair-trade textile supplies, processes and techniques.
Annie has run her own business since the early 1980’s and was a founding member of the International Felt Makers Association, and a pioneer of feltmaking. Annie’s felt work has included felt hats examples [...]
Annie Sherburne, eco supplies shop
Annie Sherburne - London based eco supplies shop
In today’s society eco-friendly products are becoming more and more important in our daily lives. So it s not unexpected that artists and crafters have started searching for eco-friendly and fair trade supplies to make their products with. Annie Sherburne is a textile artist who has [...]
Craft Book Reviews - Beginner’s Guide to Silk Ribbon Embroidery
Beginner’s Guide to Silk Ribbon Embroidery
By Ann Cox
This is a great introductory book to silk ribbon embroidery. Covering essential tools and materials, Ann Cox takes us through easy to follow stitch techniques and shows us a myriad of individual plants, flowers and other objects we can create from them. Each stitch is fully explained and [...]
