Textiles inspired by nature

Discover 10 contemporary textile artists inspired by nature that you HAVE to follow. This is ground breaking, innovative, inspirational art.

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Louise Watson - Textile Artist: Dappled light on the grasses by the canal- finished.

I have been doing some layering with fabric that are inspired by landscapes, with felting and embroidery to add colours by Stella W. Y. Leung #jewellery #contemporaryjewellery #jewellerydesign #crafts #textilesjewellery #fabricjewellery #design #uca #fabricmanipulation #fabric #textilescraft #TodayImMaking #metal #smocking #pleats #leather #textiles #layering #felt #embroidery #green #landscape #earth

This delicate vibrant butterfly wing is a mesmerising embroidery with intricate detail. Working quite often from the back means, you can’t always predict what the outcome will be at the front. The fragility lays in the holes created in the stitching, giving it a feeling of decay. My work explores how to replicate nature’s beauty with thread, either in bloom or decayed, with textures, mismatches, colours, layers and light. 60 x 45 cm unframed 72x 72 cm Floating in round frame

As a textile artist, Agy has found no shortage of inspiration in the natural world; you just have to slow down, look and observe! Here are 5 tips to get going.

I've been getting the embroidery itch lately - a deep desire to pick up some cloth and stitch! It's been quite awhile since I've done any, knitting taking a forefront in my fibers work lately. So while looking at contemporary embroidery artists, I came across UK artist Dorothy Tucker. Her works are inspired/informed by the Bangladesh and Bengali embroidery form of Kantha. Pieces of old fabric (like sari silks) are pieced together with stitching to form cushions and quilts. Dorothy uses found…

Trying my hands on #tactileart In love with neutrals and textures, I think finally I’m able to express myself! Inspiration from @lalymille

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Thank you all for the great welcome back. The book has been printed (www.d4daisy.com) and I feel as though I can do other things. We are really pleased with it and it has more pages than expected - the designer fell for Nina Humphreys' artwork and insisted we add a page or two. See right. In the book, I do use the printer for some of the effects as I love the look and feel of paper and it is much stronger than you might imagine. Combining printouts with traditional drawing techniques is huge…