Textile Artists

LOCAL BC textile artists:

Cedar Wallace – is a fibre artist in BC and hosts this blog. http://sheepthrillsyarn.blogspot.com/

Lorraine Roy – environmental focused quilting

http://re-imagine.ca/portfolio/

(more to come)

****** below are artists from all over ***

Embroidery: 

Read this rather short but good article about contemporary textile artists: embroidery in particular:  https://www.widewalls.ch/embroidery-art/ 

Weaving and mixed material: 

West coast Salish weavers and Cowichan Knitters:

Working with wool, whether it is weaving, knitting, crocheting, spinning, or felting, is a practice that has a long-lived and international reach.

 Here, the Coast Salish have a vibrant spinning and weaving tradition (show currently on at the Morris and Helen Belkin Gallery until Dec 2, 2018). Historically, the Salish bred and kept the Comox breed dog, or Salish Wool dog, to harvest their wool for weaving.

 Today, Musqueam and other Coastal Salish weavers, produce internationally priced weavings. http://moa.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Sourcebooks-Weavers.pdf

 Cowichan Knitting is also both historic and very much in production today. The Cowichan are from southern Vancouver Island, and are well known world-wide for their distinctive knitted patterns in sweaters. To hear directly from Cowichan Knitter Mary Ellen Joe – see-   https://youtu.be/si4GdIe-zJY

Weavers: Janice George and Buddy Joseph: and more about these two weavers: Weaving House

  • Mixed textile artists:

The Emperor’s New Clothes – art by Joanna Staniskzkis –

Hillary Fayle: artist who works with leaves and stitching.

Barbara Shaw – textile paintings/ collage

Laura Bowman – sculptural textile art – basket – freeform

Felt artists:

Eva Cvijanovic (felt artist and film maker) See NFB film: Hedgehog’s Home

Illustrations in children’s books: My Cozy Classics: http://www.mycozyclassics.com/ 

Atsuko Sasaki https://www.atsuko-art.com/ 

Macrame:

Knitting and Crocheting artists: 

Crochet Coral Reef Project 

(and a satellite coral reef project in Abbotsford)

 

Azumi Sakata

The Ethics of Yarn Bombing:  http://www.leanneprain.com/2014/08/on-yarn-bombing-and-ethics/

Ailish Henderson – mixed media textiles

Eco textile artist – Marina Szijarto

Dyeing with plants, etc:  India flint

Lorraine Roy – environmental and quilting

Textile Museum of Canada:  http://www.textilemuseum.ca/exhibitions/online-projects