Combing hand embroidery stitches and needle felting, Hygge by Nikitina creates sculptural hoop art. Her countless French knots and meticulously-pricked wool fibers form idyllic landscapes small enough to hold. The lush elements are arranged to spell out phrases including “chill” and…
Chilean born, Canada-based Katy Biele is one of my favorite embroidery artists working today. Coming from the background of a drawer and painter, her textile art often features a colorful array of bold blooms. Years ago, she began traveling “on…
Some people remember their travels with photographs, but Elin Petronella and Charles Henry do things a little differently—they commemorate the places they’ve been with thread. Inspired by architecture, each recreates their memories in an embroidery hoop.
Artist Fleur Woods calls her work ‘stitched paintings’. Combining elements of soft water-based painting with the embroidery, her works celebrate the natural world in delicate, almost ethereal way; they feel as though they could float away with a passing breeze.
Do you wear hats? I don’t, but I could be persuaded with these embroidered hats by Lexi Mire. She takes otherwise ordinary ballcaps and adorns them with a variety of colorful flowers. These are all custom jobs; through Etsy, Lexi…
Over the past few months, I’ve seen more and more creatives try punch needle embroidery. If you’re unsure of what the heck that is, a punch needle is a hollow needle that creates loops of thread on fabric. The visual…
It’s been over two years since Moscow-based Lisa Smirnova’s custom embroidered clothing has made an appearance on Brown Paper Bag. In 2016, she collaborated with fashion brand GO (by Olya Glagoleva) on the project Artist At Home. The collection featured cozy fabrics…
The exquisite surface pattern in the above embroidery by Maria of Desert Eclipse Studio was what first attracted me to her work. Using a combination of knotted stitches and painterly applications of color, she combines them into visually dazzling hand embroidery…
The embroidery hoop is a great place to be nowadays. Artists are stitching beautiful and creative works that fit within the confines of a circle, but as we’ve seen, there are many who think beyond it. This is both literally…
I don’t know about you, but when I am looking at an embroidery, I always like to view it from the side or a three-quarters angle. From that vantage point, you get to see all of the great textural qualities…