Carol Eckert makes incredible scenes of animals (often depicting fables and other tales) using a traditional basketry technique: coiling. Her artwork is anything but traditional, however. She uses embroidery floss wrapped around electronic hookup wire mainly, and the detail is just exquisite. Above is pictured “Song of the Steppes”
Here’s an installation by artist Sandra Norrbin made from foam and knotless-netted rope. I just learned knotless netting so I’m really intrigued by artists who use it in their work. Via VVORK.
Syuzi at Fashioning Technology posted up these luscious pictures of concrete embedded with woven and embroidered fibers. Their intended use is for building surfaces, and the projects is called “Girlie Concrete.” Very cool!
Holy moly! Gareth @ MAKE writes: This is creepy and weird in a totally “I SO want that on MY Roomba” sorta way! It’s a cover for the Roomba, the “i-Toad,” made from needle felted Romney and Jacob wool and glass eyes. And you thought the housepets were freaked out about your Roomba before!
Melissa of art = love = life created these charming softies, based on the Baba Yaga character from Russian folklore. In the stories, Baba Yaga is often portrayed as living in a house with chicken feet. I made the first one for a friend who was having a bad day, but then I decided that […]
I really like this Rag Rug Handbag tutorial over on Whip Up. I have two gorgeous rag rugs made from Indian silk saris that I bought a few years ago, and have been thinking that it was perhaps one too many. (For the floor, that is.) Maybe I’ll turn one of them into a few […]
Master fiber spinner and natural dyeing wizard Judith Lange shared her wealth of knowledge with us back in Volume 04. Judith lives on her farm in Sonoma County, raises her own sheep and goats, spins her own harvested fibers, and dyes them stunning colors using only nature’s bounty right there in her on-site workshop. Pictured […]
