Northeastern Wisconsin Fiber Fanatics

01/25/2014

Ralph Ziman's project, "Ghosts," is a commentary on arms trafficking from powerful, foreign nations to Africa. The photos in the series were created in collaboration with street vendors from Johannesburg, who were commissioned to create sculptures of AK-47s using traditional beading techniques. Learn more about Ziman and his work here: http://hifructose.com/2014/01/24/preview-ralph-zimans-ghosts-at-c-a-v-e-gallery/

01/01/2014

Happy New Year, y'all!

12/16/2013

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12/14/2013

An increasingly popular activity among younger do-it-yourself enthusiasts, arm knitting uses the forearms in lieu of knitting needles to make loopy scarves and blankets.

12/14/2013

Learn more about the art and process of Bella May Leonard in the interview on Textile Artist : http://bit.ly/1gxGogU
See the artist website: http://bellamayleonard.com/work.html
Follow her on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BellaMayLeonard

12/08/2013

Sommer Roman: contemporary, conceptual fiber sculture

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12/08/2013

This is made out of paper, y'all.

Nathalie Boutté
http://bit.ly/xq9Tx7
http://on.fb.me/16d6JYp

12/07/2013

For those of you that are quilters (or just jam-on quilts in general): contemporary art quilts.

American Folk Art Museum - current exhibit thru Jan. 5th.
http://www.folkartmuseum.org/index.php?p=folk&id=880
https://www.facebook.com/AmericanFolkArtMuseum

12/05/2013

Heather Collins is an award-winning textile artist for the UK. She says about her process that "I use free machine embroidery, mainly straight stitch or zigzag, taking a few threads at a time. I intensely machine them together incorporating snippets of wool and fabric to create a new piece of cloth. I’m not too precious about my work, often cutting it up and reworking it, using a heat gun or soldering iron to distress the work to achieve the desired effect, and embellishing with hand stitch as required."

Her website is here: http://www.heathercollins.co.uk/

Award-winning Heather Collins is a textile artist inspired by landscapes and seascapes, especially those of her native Sussex. Here we find out why.

12/04/2013

These are so neat.

I can't help but admire the way artist Diana Beltran Herrera transforms simple strips of paper into something so whimsical and strange in these sculptures and installations.

12/03/2013

Wendy Kawabata's "Grow in Light" installation. There's a lot more pictures on her site.

Kawabata's an Icelandic artist whose crocheted flower installations (these things are BIG) give a visual representation to the experience of returning light in Iceland.

11/27/2013

Melissa Sue Stanley makes some of the neatest little creatures via crochet...so they're technically amigurumi.