Just a few years ago Cassandra Dias was a mum of two young children, dabbling in a variety of crafts…
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Inheriting her mother’s cross stitch threads wasn’t just the beginning of a new career for former art teacher Lesley Wood,…
Swift by name, swift by nature. If you watch textile artist Dionne Swift practising her free motion machine stitching, the…
Grasses, leaves and twigs may not be everyone’s idea of textile art, but through Kazuhito Takadoi’s eyes, there is nothing…
When are ceramics considered textile art? When they’ve been embroidered, naturally! Caroline Harrius isn’t a textile artist. She’s a ceramicist….
You’re a fan of stitch – by hand or machine. But, for most textile artists that’s not where the story…
At first sight, the bright colours of artist Sam Owen Hull’s abstract artworks might suggest a pop art style of…
Alice Frost may call herself an ordinary girl with an ordinary sewing machine, but we beg to differ. One look…
It’s a big YES! How many of us really say yes to life, say yes to loving our art and…
Contemporary textile artists often seek to challenge traditional values and conventions, and that can make their work unique, aesthetically stimulating…