#textile arts

[victusinveritas]

This artist hand-embroiders canvas "notebooks."

[8pxl]

created a cross stitch pattern for this piece <3

[tiktoks-i-enjoyed]

ID: TikTok comment that reads "I would also like to remind us all that even if the fiber arts community didn't contribute to technological advancements: they kept millennia of humans warm. We live and breathe because someone once upon a time made someone else clothes. You have ancestors for whom a woven garment made the difference between freezing and seeing tomorrow or kept their skin protected from diseases spread by bugs. Textiles give protection from the sun, the elements, parasites and pests. It is never insignificant in any incarnation." end ID

[anxiousangerball]

I don't know who needs to hear this, but

YOU DO NOT NEED TO START A NEW HOBBY!

STEP AWAY FROM THE TEXTILES!

YOU DON'T NEED MORE YARN!

THAT FABRIC IS NOT CALLING TO YOU! LEAVE IT ALONE!

[countesspetofi]

This is the quilt my great-grandmother made from the ribbons her gravedigger son brought home when the funeral wreaths died and had to be thrown out. Back then, the ribbons were made of good-quality satin and it seemed a shame to let the fabric go to waste, so she washed and ironed them and kept them rolled up in a drawer until there were enough to make a quilt top. It's faded quite a bit over the decades and lost some of its sheen. The bedstead was hers, too.

(The shams are modern and made of quilter's cotton.)

[lionofchaeronea]

Title: Penelope Unraveling Her Work at Night Artist: Dora Wheeler Keith (American, 1856-1940) Date: 1886 Genre: mythological art Medium: silk embroidered with silk thread Dimensions: 114.3 cm (45 in) high x 172.7 cm (68 in) wide Location: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY, USA

[fuzzbby]

Sasha Baskin.