Cover Image: Linnea Pergola Fine Art Silk Painting – San Miguel de Allende TAFA was launched in 2010 and at eight years, continues to attract the …
Appliqué Methods - check out some techniques used around the world along with video tutorials and cultural examples of variations: needle turning, fusibles and cutwork.
Leslie Pearson lives in the US and visited Australia for the first time as a result of a commission for Mountain to Mouth, a ritual of cleansing and renewal where a canoe is built, celebrated and then burnt. "In our slow walk of contemplation, we honored our connections with earth and with each other."
Claudia Marie Lenart is a needle felt artist from Wauconda, Illinois. Besides illustrating books in wool, she also creates wool paintings, needle felted animals, angels and fairies. She shares some tips on what she learned when creating her work for children's books.
Meet our new members from 2017! TAFA: The Textile and Fiber Art List showcases excellence by studio artists and groups from around the world. We are diverse, international and passionate about what we do. Join us!
Every year thousands of quilters come to Paducah for the annual AQS Quilt Show. As a group, they tend to wear comfortable shoes and carry a big, …
Find great handmade items for kids or their rooms, made with care and creativity by our TAFA members!
Do you hang Christmas stockings and fill them up with goodies in your home? Well, even if you don’t, small gifts are often needed for …
We have been doing a series of posts on ideas of what would make great holiday gifts from our Member products. We’ve shown you great handmade scarves, …
Scarves have so many uses! Wear them and display them in your home. Our textile artists work with many different techniques and this post showcases some of the scarves they make as wearable art.
Find handmade supplies, yarn, kits, patterns and more from our TAFA members!
When you think of jewelry, do you automatically think of metals or beads? Cultures around the world have decorated themselves throughout history with soft jewels made of …
Find handmade hats and gloves on TAFA! Sewn, knitted, felted, beaded.... and vintage, too!
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.
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.
