Most of the embroiderers in this series have been women – it is a traditionally female craft after all, but there are men doing wonderful things as we’ve already seen with Richard ...
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Artisan Embroidery: Izziyana Suhaimi
Combining a variety of mediums within a work is definitely an artistic trend of late, but none is quite as striking as Singapore-based Izziyana Suhaimi‘s embroidered illustrations and ...
Artisan Embroidery: Richard Saja and Historically Inaccurate Decorative Arts
In this series we set out to explore modern embroidery and celebrate stitchers and artists developing the craft, and helping to make it be taken more seriously. One artist, however, is turning it ...
Artisan Embroidery: Maria Aparicio Puentes
In our last artisan embroidery article we explored the work of Rosalind Wyatt, who stitches stories into personal textiles to add new life to a garment and add a further dimension to it. Our next ...
Artisan Embroidery: Rosalind Wyatt
As we explored in our introduction and history of embroidery, using the craft to tell a story or document history has been common practice since its inception, the greatest example being the ...
Artisan Embroidery: Evelin Kasikov
Many of our artisan embroiderers started their design life out doing something completely different and then found themselves in embroidery, almost by accident. This is no more true than for ...
Artisan Embroidery: Aimee Betts
The next of our artisan embroiderers is Aimee Betts, who describes herself as a “˜Creator of Adornments’. Aimee combines more modern processes, such as industrial sewing and digital ...
Artisan Embroidery: MaricorMaricar
Sydney-based sisters’ Maricor and Maricar Manalo‘ describe themselves as “˜Makers of Things assorted’. They’re designers, illustrators and animators by trade, but in ...
Artisan Embroidery: Emily Jo Gibbs
The first of our embroiderers is Emily Jo Gibbs,’ a British artist specializing in hand-stitched textiles. A member of the 62 Group, she became internationally known for her exquisite ...
Artisan Crafting and Embroidery: An Introduction
Similar to our exploration of the Bohemian Modern trend, we’ve noticed a revival of artisan craftsmanship across the western world. Young people are stepping away from technology and ...
Creative Business Mothers: Sharmadean Reid
Our next inspirational business mother is Sharmadean Reid, founder of WAH Nails, who is pretty much entirely responsible for the boom of the brightly colored nail art trend we’ve seen over ...
Julie Deane, the Woman behind Cambridge Satchel Company
You may have heard of our next inspirational mother thanks to Google and it’s feature in one of their adverts. It’s a pretty special story so it’s no wonder the internet giant ...
Creative Business Mothers: Jenny Scott
“œNew mothers don’t just want to talk about nappies and nipple cream – especially if they come from a creative background and love fashion, culture and design” This is ...
Creative Business Mothers: Natalia Vodianova
It would have been very easy for Natalia Vodianova take her millions and status as one of the world’s greatest supermodels and rest on it, living happily ever after with her partner and ...
Creative Business Mothers: Sophie Dahl
You may remember our next inspirational mother from her “˜controversial’ modeling days where she, Sophie Dahl, graced billboards and magazine covers with her size 14 figure. ...