Laura Baverstock is a specialist hand embroiderer, textile artist, and illustrator who mixes traditional stitching techniques with her contemporary design practice
Dutch artist Floor Giebels combines embroidery with watercolor on fabric
Petro Vrellis wraps a single, 1-2 km long thread, 3000-4000 times across a 200-peg loom
Janaina Mello Landini unravels ropes into patterns that evoke tree roots, river basins and lightning strikes
“Plexus no. 35” is on display at the Toledo Museum of Art until January 22, 2017
Ukrainian artist Zenyk Palagniuk wrapped 24 km (15 mi) of thread around 13,000 nails to create an amazingly realistic portrait of Justin Timberlake. It took the artist over 200 hours to complete. Palagniuk began by sketching the portrait on a large piece of plywood. He then hammered in all of the nails and wrapped…
Artwork by KUMI YAMASHITA Kumi Yamashita, whose mind-blowing artwork has been featured previously (here and here), just unveiled her latest artwork in her ongoing Constellation series. Posted earlier this afternoon to her official Facebook page, the new piece was privately commissioned. The Constellation body of work consists of three simple materials that,…
