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Tawny Maclachlan Capon – Integrity, energy & craftsmanship

Tawny Maclachlon Capon started out as a ballet dancer before turning your attentions to the world of visual art. She now works with an eclectic range of techniques and materials (including a handmade Japanese paper called Washi) to produce her delightful mixed ...

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Jools Elphick – The balance between hand and machine

Balancing hand-knitting with machine-knitting to produce a textile with substance, Jools Elphick uses a knitting machine with varying needle gauges to create pieces of head-wear for “the theatre of life”. She uses a range of different hand-finishing techni ...

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Ana Teresa Barboza – Handcraft and nature

Born in Lima, Perú in 1980, Ana Teresa Barboza lives and works in her native city. She studied painting in the Faculty of Art at Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (PCUP). Using embroidery, yarn, and wool, she creates landscapes and other imagery that exi ...

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Subversive Cross Stitch: Book review

Julie Jackson became so dismayed with her day job that disguising her contempt for her ‘idiot boss’ was becoming increasingly difficult. She decided that ‘art therapy’ was the answer. This need for a creative outlet and her general dis ...

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Mawra Tahreem – Emotions, thoughts and experiments

Mawra Tahreem’s work is an exploration and representation of organic forms. The use of pattern in her work is integral to its message; that the ‘inner-self’ is changeable. She works in a variety of disciplines, but always with a strong textile context; h ...

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Ann Roth – Energy and rhythm

Ann Roth is well known for her experimentation with colour and pattern which she uses to create the illusion of ‘deep, layered and contemplative spaces’. Warp and weft elements collide in her weavings, the outcome of which is dramatic and contrasting. Rece ...

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Alice Kettle – Reinvent, rework and reconstruct

We were introduced to the work of Alice Kettle when our mum Sue Stone raved about the books and , both of which Alice co-authored with long-time collaborator Jane McKeating. We were the lucky enough to meet her and see her work ‘in the flesh’ at the Knit ...

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EJ Tech – Experimental art & tech lab

EJTech is an experimental art & tech lab based in Budapest, Hungary founded by Esteban de la Torre and Judit Eszter Karpati. Working in the fields of experimental interfaces, interactive installations and hybrid art projects, these artists seek to broaden ...

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Jess de Wahls – Recycled textile sculpture

Jess de Wahls was born in 1983 in Berlin, but relocated to London in 2004. She works mostly in portraiture and has experimented widely with acrylic and oil painting, drawing, pyrography, tattoo design, and sewing, but eventually found her niche in Retex sculp ...

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Online textile art & design courses

Exploring your creativity and trying out new techniques as a textile artist can be extremely fulfilling. But where do you start? What area should you focus on? And how do you get the most out of your experimentation? Sometimes it’s useful to have on-ha ...

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