To celebrate London Design Festival, the Fashion & Textile Museum held a pop-up exhibition taken from the Textile Museum of Canada. The collection, Greater Toronto: New Artist Textiles, made its first appearance outside of North America at the Fashion & Textile museum, where it displayed fabric print designs from ten Canadian artists. The collection exploring […]
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Sophie Standing- Textile Artist
Impal, Sophie Standing When we came across the work of Sophie Standing we were immediately drawn to the unique style she has developed in order to create these amazing animal portraits. Sophie has a broad knowledge of many techniques in the industry as she studied wood, metal, ceramics and textiles at Liverpool Hope University. It […]
Trish Burr
Trish Burr is an embroidery artist from South Africa, who uses her amazing silk shading skills to create these stunningly detailed works of art! Inspired by nature, Trish Burr does not hold back on colour, using luscious threads to create incredibly details pieces that do not underestimate her colourful Cape Town surroundings. Trish Burr calls […]
Fashion & Textile Museum – Marian Clayden Exhibition
On 11th March 2016 a new exhibition opened in London’s Fashion and Textiles museum featuring various works by artist, Marian Clayden and we just had to go and check it out! Clayden has produced various pieces from intricate jewellery to floor length hanging installation pieces all using various dying, resisting and discharge methods. Although the […]
A Short Background of Silk Shading
You requested and we heard you, so the London Embroidery School is now working on a brand new course for you which will be Silk Shading. This super delicate technique is sometimes known as ‘painting with a needle’ as it combines a number of different coloured threads and needles to be used simultaneously in order […]