Crafts

June 12, 2024

Japanese Artist Creates Moving Illustrations That Come to Life With Cleverly Placed Pull Tabs

Do you remember the pull tab books from your childhood? It was a basic but clever concept. A strategically placed paper strip attached to a character or element allowed you to move it up and down or side to side in a picture book. Now, an artist known as shinrashinge has taken this technique to the next level, creating moving illustrations that come alive by pulling and lifting some tabs.

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May 16, 2024

Fiber Artist Crochets Beautiful Lacework Designs on Fallen Laves

Many artists take inspiration from nature, but few use it as their canvas. However, UK-based artist Susanna Bauer combines her crocheting skills with the beauty of organic materials and breathes new life into dead, fallen leaves through her unique designs. Her work features brown leaves that are carefully cleaned before Bauer expertly pierces them with a needle and thread, weaving intricate patterns into the fallen foliage.

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May 1, 2024

Twisting Tornadoes Come to Life in This Artist’s Stunning 3D Embroidery

Artist Erika Tu'avao reimagines the classic landscape embroidery hoop by giving it a three-dimensional edge. Tu'avao, who lives in Provo, Utah, is frequently inspired by the stunning nature scenes around her, and these often translate into her work. By using needle felting techniques along with her embroidery thread stitchings, she is able to provide her sublime scenes of nature with perceived depth.

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February 7, 2024

Artists Merge Thread Painting With the Japanese Art of Kintsugi on Vintage Plates

When artists with two different styles come together, magic can happen. That is certainly the case with the collaboration between embroidery artist Katerina Marchenko and mixed-media artist Artashes Sardarian. They've merged Marchenko's embroidery on tulle with Sardarian's kintsugi to great effect. The pair worked together using vintage plates, tulle, embroidery thread, and gold. The results are delicate mixed-media pieces where Marchenko's embroidered eyes and hands peer out from holes in the punctured ceramics.

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