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Sylvie
Weber -
Creator of original contemporary tapestries and fibre art , woven
on a horizontal loom of the type known as "Aubusson".
She also creates small textile sculptures and paints over old carpets,
a woven basis for creating picture puzzles, recycling them thus
giving them a new life. She carries out large and small commissions,
creates works for local, national and international textile art
and craft exhibitions and competitions. She has been recognised
nationally in France for her work in promoting tapestry and fibre
art and for her own work. She has worked with Maori artists in
New Zealand and her well illustrated site shows nearly all her own
and some of her collaborative work. ...hhttp://sylvie-weber.pals.fr/
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| KOZO
Studio and Gallery was established by artist Tunde Toth in
Thomastown, Co. Kilkenny. As a Fibre Artist and Papermaker, Tunde
works with natural fibres, handmade papers, combined materials, textiles
and found objects. Her work utilises environmentally friendly materials
without using any animal products and limiting the use of chemical
additives, involving a transformation of old papers into a new creative
expression. KOZO studio also operates as a gallery, exhibition space
and outlet featuring art work and individually designed pieces by
artists and craftspeople who work with natural, environmentally friendly,
recycled and re-used materials and/or create their work through an
environmentally friendly process. They also offer workshops and short
courses for adults and children on a variety of techniques ranging
from Hand Papermaking to Japanese Woodblock Printmaking, all based
on recycling or eco-friendly processes. Attractive site needing
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Elizabeth
Lundberg Morisette of Greenbelt, Md., acquires collections
of small objects ...then reuses them to explore the human need to
collect and examine what our collections say about us. Results are
lighthearted and imaginative. "Morisette brings a weaver's hand, a
conceptual artist's mind and a bargain-hunter's heart to her art,
combining piece after small piece of the apparently insignificant
in a tireless pursuit of big conceptual statements.".
This site requires Internet Explorer 7 to see the illustrations
in the form of a slideshow - if you use any other browser forget it...http://home.comcast.net/~rugworks/ |
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Cas
Holmes is a professional artist working in the community.
Her work looks at issues of the land and peoples' relationship to
it. She uses reclaimed materials and the work is installation, wall
based and small objects. The image illustrated opposite, Fen, uses
fabric rusted and marked by the ground and stained papers, plant
material. In community projects, she works with all ages and abilities
including work inside and outside. More recently,she has been investigating
the combination of textiles and paper with photographs, computer
imaging, directly with drawing and also photocopy exploration. A
simple and very attractive site, showing work by workshop pupils
as well as her own work.. http://www.casholmes.textilearts.net/page3.html
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Fiber Arts - A site created by Päivi Suomi "You can find
over 900 pages of information, free patterns, resources and instructions
for weaving, spinning, dyeing, knitting, crochet, felting, papermaking,
needlepoint, sewing, and other textile handicrafts"..."We
also have a free Discussion Forum and Chat rooms where you can meet
with all your "fiberholic friends". A very well designed site with
a great deal of interest to fibre artists everywhere. http://www.allfiberarts.com/
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| Cambridge
Galleries Permanent Collection - Cambridge is located midway
between Toronto and London in Canada and the Cambridge Public Library
Board established a permanent collection policy with a mandate to
focus on contemporary Canadian fibre art. This decision was influenced
by the heritage of the textile industry in Cambridge and an interest
in developing a contemporary collection that would be unique. The
collection now numbers 97 innovative works in a wide range of fibre
media and technique, representing artists from coast to coast. Simply
presented site but images cannot be enlarged ... http://gallery.library.cambridge.on.ca/
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| Laurence
Barker Paper - Far from needing a wake-up call, the world
of hand papermaking ever since its mid-20th century renaissance has
been in an ebullient and transforming mode. Originally inspired by
the early and solitary artistic investigations of Douglass Howell,
an ever growing number of artists in the intervening decades have
contributed to the development of paper pulp as an art medium, thereby
adding their distinctive voices. Laurence Barker is one of these and
his site is worth a visit.. ..http://www.laurencebarker.com/index.html |
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| Pluto
Krazo Designs is dedicated to artistic creations from 99.9%
recycled materials making gift cards, vegan jewelry, fashion and art.
The materials used included handmade flower petal paper for luminaries,
room dividers, cards and even hand bags, recycled tire inner tubes
for jewelry, hand bags and gothic attire such as masks and wings and
recycled metal and wood for unique hand made musical insturments!
One of the main aspects of Pluto Krazo Designs is hand made flower
petal paper.... http://plutokrazo.tripod.com/
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Audrey
Hughes - Fibre Artist - her art is hand felted wool, which
she creates using one of the oldest textile processes known - The
unspun Merino wool fibres are hand felted by use of a system which
engages moisture, friction and heat, causing the fibres to entangle,
interlock and mat thus producing nature's earth friendly wonder
fabric, felt. Making
shapes to adorn the human head, she explores the idea of the head
as being a container for the soul, a vessel of power and memory,
the sacred centre place. Her free hanging interior wall pieces express
a blending of texture and colour, with the natural movement of light
and shadow, to reveal a merge of idea, sensation, emotion and form.
...http://homepage.ntlworld.com/nauvoo/
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