Mask artist

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During a material experiment, Dutch designer Bertjan Pot, along with his fellow designer Vladi Rapaport, discovered a technique for stitching together lengths of brightly colored rope to create interesting face masks. Though reminiscent of tribal masks and seemingly full of meaning and individual narratives, Pot says that the faces came from a less-than-successful attempt at making rugs. When trying to turn the rope into rugs, Pot found that the material would not stay flat. More

An ongoing series of crochet masks by Threadstories

Damselfrau, or Magnhild Kennedy’s first masks were made as costumes for herself and her boyfriend to go clubbing in. At the time she was working in a vintage designer shop in Islington where the owner would let her sit behind the counter and work …

Artist Tau Lewis salvages fur, leather, and other fabrics and stitches the materials into enormous sculptural masks.

2 Artworks by Anna Madia, Saatchi Art Artist

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