Green fake fur wearable art coat
Wearable art coat in soft green fake fur shearling, a Fake Fendi coat, Making an art coat in green and pink fake fur.
art quilts
textile art quilts, embellishment, surface design
411 figurative artists – my art quilt
Year one for international figurative artist site, 411 joined in 2010.
Subtle fabrics shimmer across art quilt
See the detail below to notice how the subtle changes in fabrics shimmer across the body of this art quilt from Japan. I do have a big fabric stash for when the mood hits and that’s how you can mine the stash for all these fine subtle color shifts.
More quilts from Japan
Standing panels in finely matched fabrics. This is the artist but I have since lost her name. These were very large textile installation pieces, very sophisticated.
There were some ordinary quilts… but I didn’t take pictures of those ones
There were even some ordinary quilts at the Tokyo Quilt show… but I didn’t take pictures of those ones…
Chunky hand quilting gives great bite to art quilt
One of my favorites. I love this thick cotton and the chunky hand quilting with what looks like crochet cotton. I love the randomness and sharp contrasts of this art quilt. If you’re just finding this blog now, I pretty much stumbled across the International Tokyo quilt Show when I was in Tokyo on a …
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Martial arts fighter made of postage sized squares
This large quilt was made up of tiny postage size squares to create this large figure on martial arts fighter. Even the money is beautiful in Japan so I snapped the money drawer too.
Subtle fabric shifts in Japanese quilts
I am not a traditional quilter by any means but I used to go to International Quilt Market every year with my Pavelka Design sewing patterns and I was certainly exposed to the full range of quilt things on the market from about 1993 – 2000. The thing that really struck me about the majority …
Tokyo Quilt Show, from traditional to contemporary
So much to take in. Art quilts from abstract to figurative to these extremely fine traditional kimonos were on display. These carefully dyed kimonos were very finely embroidered with fine silk threads and metallic threads. I walked my buns off and spent from about 10 till 4 there, meeting people, taking pictures, buying only a …
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