Dana Blair is taking the experience she has had with Threads of Peru to a new, sustainable social enterprise: Pichinku naturally dyed yarns. Her Kickstarter campaign funded the initial phase and yarns are expected to hit the market by October 2017.
Find handmade supplies, yarn, kits, patterns and more from our TAFA members!
Find handmade hats and gloves on TAFA! Sewn, knitted, felted, beaded.... and vintage, too!
TAFA celebrates its seventh birthday and has some fun with showing off the number 7 through videos and member's works. What does the number 7 mean to you?
The Banjara have typically been a nomadic herding group of people in India. They wear bright clothing with lots of shisha mirrors, patchwork and applique designs. Flowing skirts, jangly jewelry! Guess who is related to them? The Roma share the same genes! Formerly known as gypsies (now considered pejorative), the two groups have hosted gatherings. Learn a bit about their history in this post.
Wallpaper Purse by Rayela Art Dimensions: 11″ wide x 7″ high x 2″ deep, strap 12″ Metric: 28 x 17 x 5 cm, strap 30 cm …
Go green! Using our waste to make art helps our earth and keeps stuff out of our landfills. Check out a few examples of how our TAFA members have used worn textiles in their work.
Turkish Shepherd with a felt kepenek, a cape worn to keep him warm. The only things I have felted have pretty much been by mistake: sweaters …
Castilleja Cotton Singing Snowman Quilt One of my favorite things about Christmas is all of the music, favorites from my childhood, both about the Christ …
TAFA's textiles and fiber art illustrate the old, old Christmas song of "We Three Kings".
Introducing our new members on TAFA who joined between January and June, 2016. Quite the eye candy! Some indigo, leaves and brains along with exceptional felt work, stitching and art quilts. Temari balls play with a couple of saints. Meaning and mindfulness throughout!
Uta Lenk lives in Germany where issues of refugees and migration have changed lives and impacted world views. Living in close contact with refugee families and volunteering to assist them impacted her creativity, bringing these themes into her art quilts. Uta shares some of her experiences and work in this post.
Printing and Dyeing on Fabric covers a very basic introduction to surface design techniques used to mark textiles: a bit on the chemistry behind paint and dye adhesion and then videos showing some of the methods used.
Appliqué Methods - check out some techniques used around the world along with video tutorials and cultural examples of variations: needle turning, fusibles and cutwork.
Lisa Shepard Stewart – Cultured Expressions Lisa Shepard Stewart is one of TAFA’s pioneer members, joining back in August of 2010. Since then, she has continued …
Canadian textile artist, Morgen Bardati, spent her childhood years in South Africa. Xhosa, Zulu and other tribal designs inform her work in cloth. Morgen dyes, prints, sews and embellishes. The end result is simple and striking, yet born of complex processes that involve knowledge, experimentation, layers of methodology and acute vision.
Dolapo James of Urbanknit shares her journey in textiles, from Lagos to London, giving us some insights into current trends in African textiles. Born in Nigeria and living in England, Dolapo has insight into how both cultures meet and influence each other. She sells through her own site and on Etsy.
by Ariane Mariane In today’s world photos are one of the most important elements if you are an artist or a designer. Photos decide whether your work …
Twelve quilts help introduce us to the varied art quilt techniques artists use in design: color, composition, shadowing, depth, and much more!
Do you wonder where artists and artisans get their inspiration from? Ariane from Ariane Mariane/ Paris has a leitmotif (recurrent theme) that finds ground in a sentence from Picasso …
Elena Rosenberg, New York wearable fiber artist and knit designer, has been invited to participate in the 38th annual Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Show 2014, as …
TAFA: The Textile and Fiber Art List has a widely diverse membership, brought together by a shared love for the work they do with textiles and fiber art. …
Karen Miller, Marzipan Road I am a fibre artist living and working in Ottawa, Ontario Canada. I love to blend alternative fibre techniques with traditional yarn hand-hooking to …
Cindy Grisdela fiber artist I’m a fiber artist specializing in abstract contemporary quilts for the wall. I’m particularly interested in color and the way colors interact …
