Constructed textiles

Elizabeth Ashdown creates exuberant hand woven Passementerie artworks - an intricate weaving technique combining traditional craft skills with a contemporary aesthetic.

Claire | Textile Artist on Instagram: "Starting the week on a positive note! More work for @openstudioscornwall #clairehoughtontextiles #rawedges #frayededges #seascapes #contemporaryart #textileseascape"

Artist’s Pages on Instagram: "Textile and fibre art has been on my mind. Here’s four artists I’ve discovered recently! Their work is each unique and fascinating. If you’re inspired, go and show them your support. Artists: @nugewants @jl_gi @davidnott @milatextiles #fibreart #textile #textileart #embroidery #artist"

Many textile artists actively celebrate the history of damaged and abandoned materials by re-using them inventively, creating beauty from discarded debris and

Sheila Hicks' Quarry Spider (2003) is an artistic achievement in color, structure and technique. The small weaving, measuring only 9 ¼” x 5 7/8”, is one of almost 1,000 works included in her series Miniatures - an enduring project that began over 50 years ago. Each was created on a small loom constructed from painter's stretcher

Free motion embroidery creates a lot of scrap threads. I don’t throw them out and incorporate them in my art work. Here are a few tips on how to reuse them.

When light hits a drop of water remarkable things can occur. It can refract through the water and form rainbows in the sky. Or it can have a mirroring effect, reflecting it back and create small spots of light. Liquid light is a series of experimental optical fiber textiles inspired by the interaction between water […]