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Generate
TextileEmbroidery / Gallery / EMAIL / PRINTReflections on Charles Darwin’s South Pacific In 2008, I developed a solo exhibition, Generate, for the Australian National Botanic Gardens to coincide with...
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Stories of Migration
Textile / Gallery / EMAIL / PRINTContemporary Artists Interpret Diaspora One only has to read the headlines or turn on a television to find tragic stories of immigrants fleeing persecution, war, and...
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In a Qila
CulturePreservationTextile / Gallery / EMAIL / PRINTChanging women's lives in MahmudabadThe backbone of the erstwhile world of feudal privilege and opulence was always an invisible army of skilled...
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Observable Phenomena
Textile / Gallery / EMAIL / PRINTMariko Kusumoto’s explores translucencyIn her artist’s statement, Japanese artist Mariko Kusumoto writes that her “work reflects various, observable phenomena that...
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Unbroken Thread
TextileEmbroidery / Gallery / EMAIL / PRINTBanarasi brocade sarisBanarasi brocade saris are richly embellished with patterns of silver and gold threads, representing the culmination of hand-weaving...
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Enigmatic Ikat
AsiaTextileWeaving / Gallery / EMAIL / PRINTAncient technique charts a contemporary courseIkat is an enduring, enticing fabric. A trendy fabric born centuries ago and is surprisingly visible in...
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Weaving Contest
TextileWeavingNatural Dyes / Gallery / EMAIL / PRINTInspiring Peru’s Indigenous WeaversHow could you rekindle a dying (and dyeing) textile art and inspire indigenous people to revive their...
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Andes Gold
Textile / Gallery / EMAIL / PRINTSandra Jordan’s alpaca textilesMaking her home in the rolling hills of Sonoma Valley wine country, Sandra Jordan may live a world away from her native Peru, but her...
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Turtle Doves
Textile / Gallery / EMAIL / PRINTKeeping wrists warmBorn out of a love for old things, Turtle Doves is a British design and manufacturing company, specializing in using post-consumer textile waste to...
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Into the Future
TextileFashion / Gallery / EMAIL / PRINTLife’s continuity via fashionIt is difficult in this day and age of fluid identity, within both the fluid and shattered world, to create clothing that would be...
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The Box Project
/ Gallery / EMAIL / PRINTUncommon ThreadsIn the early 2000s, three dozen acclaimed international artists received an intriguing invitation from collector Lloyd Cotsen and his then curator, Mary Hunt...
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Continuum of Dialogue
Textile / Gallery / EMAIL / PRINTElizabeth Robb's textile sculpturesI work sculpturally to capture a moment in time using active processes that become meditations: dyeing, weaving, wrapping,...
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The Regal Benarasi
/ Gallery / EMAIL / PRINTDesigns on its FutureIt has been mentioned in the Rig Veda as Hiranya Vastra or the golden cloth; it was once woven exclusively with cotton yarn and real gold and silver...
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Leather Love
/ Gallery / EMAIL / PRINTHandcrafted belts and accessories from Equus UKThe saddlery trade in England dates back centuries and has produced fine leatherwork and craftsmen over the years. As horses,...
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Embroidered Stories
Textile / Gallery / EMAIL / PRINTBuilding Communities via Stitch Sainte LuceMadgascar-based Stitch Sainte Luce has come up with a crafty way to help eliminate chronic poverty and build community—an...
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Artisan Ambassadors
TextileEmbroidery / Gallery / EMAIL / PRINTBringing Pakistan’s textile arts to marketRecently, during a 10-day journey discovering Pakistan and its handmade products, we were warmly welcomed everywhere...
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Good Times
TextileNatural Dyes / Gallery / EMAIL / PRINTWood block printing reinvents itselfA man with wrinkled hands and failing eyesight sits on the floor with an armory of chisels, gouges and dainty little...
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Magical Quilts
/ Gallery / EMAIL / PRINTThe textile world of Dominique EhrmannInternationally renowned fiber artist Dominique Ehrmann, a naïve of Quebec, Canada, is known for her imaginative and whimsical quilts....
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Earth Colors
Natural Dyes / Gallery / EMAIL / PRINTThe allure of natural dyesIn 1856, a 14-year-old William Henry Perkin invented aniline purple or Mauve, while trying to synthesize Quinine from chemicals derived...
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Intoxicating Textiles
/ Gallery / EMAIL / PRINTVibrant Colors, Bold PatternsOne of the oldest media in the world, textile art is often defined by the pattern and color of the fibers and threads used to create it. This...
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