Helen Strutt from Lellibelle tells us how her creative business evolved, why she strives to make all her products as sustainable and planet-friendly as possible, and the value of simple gestures like sending a card.
embroidery art
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Sue Trevor has spent the last 36 years making a living as a textile artist, and is particularly loved for her spectacular stitched sculptures of ordinary domestic objects like the teapot, telephone and Kenwood Chef. Find out more in our interview.
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Learn how to make a Glastonbury-inspired embroidery hoop art, in this gorgeous free tutorial by Sharon Greaves from Daisylions.
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InterviewsMeet the Maker
Meet Freyelli Textiles – the textile artist creating stitched prints and homeware inspired by the changing seasons
by CamillaMeet Ellie Hipkin from Freyelli Textiles – a textile artist with an involved design process. Her textile art is built up through layers of colour, painting, printing and stitching before being digitally printed or translated into homeware. Her fine art prints are then embroidered again, often leaving the threads free to assert their handmade beginnings.
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InterviewsMeet the Maker
Shirley Rainbow: a textile inheritance handed down through generations of creative women
by CamillaTextile artist Teresa Bettelley from Shirley Rainbow has had a long love affair with thread and fabric, encouraged by the creative women in her family. She tells us about her beautiful hand-stitched embroidery art, her creative inheritance, her attic studio and how she fits making around her young family…