Kanae Entani

Beautiful hand appliquéd and embroidered garments by Kanae Entani, to inspire your dress making and fabric manipulation workshops.
Kanae Entani is now back in her native Japan after spending years living and working in the UK, with designers such as Donna Wilson, Julie Arkell and Lizzy Finn.

Phillip Lim 'Cut Up'

Phillip Lim's 'cut up' collection has probably sprung from, amongst other things, the art worlds recent obsession with paper cut work, with artists such as Rob Ryan reaching celebrity status and crossing genres of art and design.
Phillip Lim has cut up different fabrics, arranging and appliquéing them in this innovative collection.
A nod to the fragmentation of modern life, this is a collection with roots in Dadaism and techniques of collage.
Delicate stories run around the garments like fairy tales, romantic and wonderful.
(Images Tank)

Katie Orton

 

  

 

Katie Orton graduated in Sculpture from ECA in 2005. In the last two years her work has explored clothing in a playful way.
Katie repurposes second hand clothes and sculpts them in reaction to places she visits, events, and feelings. Most of all though Katie plays with and explores garments and fabrics, she has fun, she is not afraid of them or their constituent parts, and uses them as another medium in her tool box for self expression.
Katie helped during the NC's Whirling Dervish event this spring.

Jessica Plymate

Jessica Plymate upcycles clothing by adding applique designs. Applique is a great tool for personalising and adding design and could be useful for NC's with their fun and humour projects.

Louise Baldwin

Louise Baldwin's textiles use found fabrics, applique, couching, sequins, fraying and free embroidery, look at the way she uses the patterns on the fabrics and builds on them expanding the print into picture and design.

Dutchess von Dudik

Interesting Paper chain like applique by Dutchess von Dudik on etsy.

Applique

Applique is where you apply smaller pieces of fabric to another piece to create decoration in the form of design, pattern or picture (image here).

Couching

Above and Below: examples of couching from Sophie CallaghanBelow, Bottom: My accidental couching of string, Middle: Carolyn Saxby, Top: Michelle C

Couching is a technique where you applique thread, wool, string or strips of fabric, or indeed feathers, twigs, shells or anything else you fancy . . .

Textile Sketch Book

Above: some pages from my textile sketch book
This is a great way of finding a home for samples and experiments. It is a fantastic way to build up a portfolio of ideas and a wonderful 'sketch book' for anyone involved in textiles and textile manipulation.

Inspired by Louise Bourgeois's textile book I have endeavoured to make a similar sketch book this weekend, it is great fun, liberating and probably the most experimental sketch book I have ever made, have a go !!!!! (I will bring it in, to show and tell).

Students Upcycle Louis Vuitton

Students from Parsons The New School For Design have had a day's upcycling of Louis Vuitton designer clothes, weaving, applique and quilting were amongst the techniques used, see and read more here.

Alison Willoughby

Alison Willoughby, uses every technique available to a textile artist/ fashion designer/crafts person. Like a fine chef she throws unusual ingredients into the mix to create garments with unique character, flavour and flare. Be inspired . . . by Alison Willoughby.

Louise Bourgeois Textiles

Wonderful textiles from the amazing artist Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010) will be exhibited at Hauser and Wirth Gallery, London from 15th October-18th December 2010.

In the examples above, you can see how Louise Bourgeois has quilted patterns together to create bold designs, she has combined patterned fabrics with plain, embellished and weaved scraps together.

Louise Bourgeois was a sculptor and artist who moved between mediums of wood, rubber, bronze, and stone. However her favourite medium was textiles, it was in her blood her mother was an expert weaver and seamstress, the family business had been the restoration of tapestries.

Louise Bourgeois's works are often sexually explicit, witty and emotionally charged, she was an artist who constantly created and recreated herself as an artist throughout her 98 years. Louise Bourgeois was always surrounded by other artists and her influence on fellow practitioners in her adopted home New York was great, her opinion and expertise kept her current and at the forefront of the artistic life of the city. (thanks)

Paula Sanz Caballero

Paula Sanz Caballero is an Italian fashion illustrator and artist who uses applique (scraps of fabric) and embroidery to create her distinctive fashion illustrations. Paula likes to challenge the idea that embroidered needlework cannot transmit a sense of sophistication.