Embroidery, knitting, quilting, it all sounds a bit old hat. But if you look in the right places, you’ll soon dicover a whole world of contemporary textile art.
I found the Dutch textile artist Mieke Werner on the beautiful and very interesting website of Textile Plus, magazine. Since 1983 Mieke makes sculptures of textiles . Please have a look at her website for more pictures of her amazing work!
Farmer by Mieke Werners, Felt technique
Granny
Thanks to textile artist Erica Hogenbirk, who pointed the film out to me, please click here to see an amazing Video on You Tube about Granny
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erica // Nov 12, 2010 at 09:08
I agree, her work is amazing! Also the you tube film on her website is beautiful and almost livelike.
Marion Pannekoek // Nov 12, 2010 at 11:22
Thank you so much for pointing that out to me Erica, I really appreciate it!
13threads // Nov 13, 2010 at 09:25
Totally amazing but slightly disconcerting!
P8ronella // Nov 14, 2010 at 09:09
yes, I adore Mieke’s work !!