fiber arts

Suspensión: Embroidered Art from Fiber Artist Ana Teresa Barboza

Suspensión: Embroidered Art from Fiber Artist Ana Teresa Barboza

I am utterly awed and charmed by the gorgeous, dramatically textured landscapes in the Suspensión series from Lima, Peru-based fiber artist Ana Teresa Barboza.

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How-To: Beginner Weaving Tutorial

How-To: Beginner Weaving Tutorial

Ready to try your hand at simple woven textiles? Make your own cardboard loom and jump right in with this beginner weaving tutorial!

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If You Want to Destroy My Credit…

If You Want to Destroy My Credit…

…hold this thread as I walk away. Artist Dimitri Tsykalov has four more of these giant knit credit cards on display over at Galerie Rabouan Moussion. Just don’t click past image 5/20 unless you want to see naked people covered in raw meat. [via adafruit]

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Golden Needle Felted Koi

Golden Needle Felted Koi

Spotted in the MAKE Flickr pool, from user Christine Prusha, AKA FeltedChicken. The base, simulating water, is made from poured resin, with felted cherry blossoms sprinkled on top.

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Diaphanous Multicolor Thread Windings

Diaphanous Multicolor Thread Windings

I try to avoid superlatives in my headlines, and have been for awhile now. But it’s been a long time since I had such a hard time resisting that urge. Here’s a few that came to mind while I was composing this one about the work of Dallas artist Gabriel Dawe: stunning, magnificent, celestial, gorgeous, beautiful, amazing, transcendent. “Awesome,” if it could still be used literally, might also have been in that list.

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