Fiber Adventure Club Team

Fiber Adventure Club Team is made up of three humans that love all things Fiber. We love you too.

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Today the Department of Creative Cross-Stitchery is catching up with the latest work by Swedish designer Ulla-Stina Wikander (previously featured here), who creates textile sculptures by covering vintage household appliances and other everyday objects in colorful embroidery.

“I find it interesting to see how these objects transforms in a new context; the obsolete, the things we do not want any longer, the old and forgotten things,” the artist says, in a statement. “I give them a second life and although I cut the embroideries into pieces, I still think they look very beautiful, when the objects has been ‘dressed up.’ ”

Follow Ulla-Stina Wikander on Instagram to check out even more of her elaborately embroidered artwork.

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Izziyana Suhaimi

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Faig Ahmed Creates Psychedelic Rugs From Traditional Azerbaijani Textiles

Faig Ahmed’s latest project focuses on making contemporary carpets from classical Azerbaijani textiles. Ahmed graduated from the Azerbaijan State Academy of Fine Art in Baku in 2004. His background as an artist covers painting, video and installation as well as other mediums; however, his attention is currently focused on working with textile and sculpture. 

Traditional Azerbaijani carpets rely heavily on geometric and symmetrical patterns, stemming from historical influence. The carpets are usually limited to be rectangular or square in shape. By dismantling the laws that govern the structure and pattern of these fabrics, Ahmed converges his love of ancient culture to create a psychedelic visualization. By refurbishing the traditional compositions into a contemporary sculpture, he disassembles their stable nature and injects motion into a pre-existing lifeless object.

The patterns break away from their rigid symmetry and melt away from the tapestry into a colorful puddle. Ahmed also adds a digital effect to the rugs by pixelating fragments and blank spaces on the drapery. Overall, the artist intentionally creates an interesting union between contemporary art and ancient Azerbaijani roots.

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By Nok, via Doknommeaw-play.

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“Merapi”

40x40cm

watercolor,thread

2012

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Weaving by Janelle Pietrzak of All Roads.  Fiber, goldleaf and stoneware.  2015.

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FALL2014 final projects Wool

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Megan Morrison.

Floaters.

Vat Dye, Linen, Chicken Wire.

20” x 38” x 7”.

2013.

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Women of the Bauhaus and their textiles

Anni Albers, Gunta Stölzl, Otti Berger, Benita Otte

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Ana Teresa Barboza

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Embroidered illustrations by Ann Khokhlova.

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Sometimes you have to get a little tangled to have some fun #untfibers

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That there is my mentor, all tangled up. I miss that department with every…fiber of my being. #punintended

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Hanan Sharifa

24x36 Weaving dip dyed in indigo 2014