Ever since I started using natural dyes I’ve been intrigued by descriptions of dyeing silk to make ‘red tape’. There was the whole fascination of having a specially produced material with a really specific function. Like something straight out of Dickens, silk ribbon was dyed by an arcane process to…
Deviant Discoveries – Avaril
This month’s Deviant Discover is by the superb Sylwia aka Deviant Artist Avaril. Whilst delving into her work I noticed someone had referred to it as ‘needle painting’ and they are absolutely right! I’ve never heard this term before but clearly I’ve been hanging out under my cross stitch rock…
The Funk Files: Embroidery Frontiers – Meet Shonaegh Stewart
Every year, Hand & Lock organizes a competition for the prestigious Prize for Embroidery to promote the use of hand embroidery and to discover emerging embroidery talent. The 2017 brief invited entrants to ‘celebrate, let go, to let loose and indulge in childlike freedom, to celebrate history, global culture, sense…