stitch art

Textile artist Ruth Markwell makes pictures with fabric, print, thread and paint. After being diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis, Ruth took redundancy and started looking at how she could create a business from her hobby. The result are fabulous and affordable framed fabric artworks. Discover more in our Meet the Maker interview…

Meet Jenny from Flynn and Mabel, who brings joy to thousands of people every day on Instagram with her incredible embroidery.

Helen Spencer is here to tell anyone haunted by missing buttons about the joys of being able to stitch, create, mend and make. Here are her reasons why everyone should learn how to sew…

Meet Jane V Shorten, a contemporary textile artist who creates beautiful stitched flights of fancy, where vintage line drawings sit in slightly surreal, offbeat landscapes, surrounded by colourful embroidered and appliquéd flora and fauna.

Meet 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.