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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. Sylvie Weber also offers starter courses
in tapestry (design and techniques)
at her studio in France, in the Dordogne.
Sylvie
Weber est auteur de tapisseries contemporaines originales, tissées
sur métier de basse lice. Elle crée également
des sculptures textiles de petites dimensions et peint sur des tapis
anciens, supports tissés bons pour le rebus, qui retrouvent
ainsi une nouvelle existence. Sylvie Weber travaille sur commande,
crée des oeuvres présentées en exposition,
et participe à des concours de créativité dans
le domaine de l'Art Textile et des Métiers d'Art (niveau
national et international). Sylvie
Weber propose des cours d'initiation à la tapisserie de basse-lice
à son atelier en France.
She has worked recently 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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| Julie
Kornblum -creates weaving and basketry which combines the
ancient and the immediate.She takes a new look at old traditions by
using post-modern, surplus, and recycled materials to weave early
American textile patterns. Her sculptural pieces combining discarded
plastics with coiled basket technique have won awards in national
juried shows. The materials she uses are by products of industrialization
and the notions of disposability, one-time-use, surplus, and waste
are also modern inventions. In the past hundred years plastics have
facilitated marvelous advancements in medicine, food storage, communications,
etc; and have become a worldwide waste and disposal problem. Her
website shows her work and announces workshops which she runs, which
raises awareness of how plastic trash impacts the environment
but can be transformed into craftwork of great quality. www.juliekornblum.com
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| Rachelle
LeBlanc is an artist working in the hooked rug technique since
2003. She runs workshops in the technique for beginners in her studio,
and in the Summer Workshop in Bouctouche, New Brunswick. "Hand
hooking is a very slow process. The image is created by thousands
of loops created with woolen fabric, cut into strips then hooked onto
a burlap backing.....I have been fortunate to be self taught. This
allows me the freedom from someone else's rules, gravitating away
from the more primitive images to a more painting with wool approach...
The art of rug hooking has become my medium of choice." The
images on this site must be seen enlarged to appreciate the qualities
of her work and the technique..... http://www.hookedrugstudio.com/index.html |
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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
Flash Player, recently created and evolving... http://www.kozogallery.com/studio.htm |
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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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| All
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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