Ghada Amer

Le Salon Courbé, 2007, wallpaper, embroidered furniture, silk and wool carpet

Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec

As part of the London Design Festival, French designers Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec filled the Raphael Court of the V&A museum with fabric covered foam– 240 square meters of the gallery floor are covered with the Textile Field, to encourage visitors to lie down and look up at the Renaissance art.

An invitation to lascivious reverie. Our intention is to propose a different, casual approach to freely experience what can be a quite intimidating environment, such as a museum.

We conceived an expansive, coloured foam and textile piece with gentle inclinations to produce a sensual field on which to comfortably lounge while meditating on the surrounding Raphael Cartoons. Everyone can immerse into this temporary installation, for a minute, an hour or more, that is the idea. No efforts, no apprehension just contemplation.

Hyperbolic Coral Reef

http://crochetcoralreef.org/

http://crochetcoralreef.blogspot.com/

The Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef is a project by the Institute For Figuring in Los Angeles. The Crochet Reef resides at the intersection of mathematics, marine biology, handicraft and community art practice, and also responds to the environmental crisis of global warming and the escalating problem of oceanic plastic trash.

Kim Sooja

Bottari

(various installation views)

A tied bundle, something 'saved' in both the objective and metaphorical sense, arouses the same simultaneous attraction and curiosity as a body lying on the ground. To grasp the knot that holds the enveloping cloth together would reveal the enigma of what was concealed within, the story of the bundle and its origin. It is likely the story of a passage, a story of departure, travel, and arrival. Not least, the bundle, whether reference or literary motif, is an archetype deeply anchored in the consciousness of nearly everyone. When the hero of a novel resolutely girds himself, 'ties his bundle', it marks a dramatic turning point in the course of the story. The form of this putatively simple baggage, reversible at any moment, stands for an open process, a complex anticipation of what is to come. It can be a condensate of life, fully functional for some other life-space, or life-time.

Kim undertakes dealing with cloth, needle, and thread in an ordinary way, but raises it to the level of a concept. Thus, sewing along with her mother was not only an initiatory experience that showed the artist, who studied painting at the arts academy in Seoul, a way of going beyond the two-dimensional canvas to object and space. An idea, far-reaching both for herself and for the viewers of her work, manifests itself in her self-conceived role as 'A Needle Woman' — that of sewing as an interaction in space, sewing as a social behavior that endlessly constructs new and more or less unstable living-spaces

Anu Tuominen

unusual commercially used textiles

Soy Silk fibre contains natural anti-bacterial agents which can restrain the growth of certain types of bacteria and is therefore considered a very sanitary fiber
Sting Plus nettle fabric is woven from the stinging nettle, which "produces a uniquely strong, soft and naturally fire retardant textile fibre" and, blended with pure new wool, it is "the ultimate environmental upholstery solution."
Lenpur is a biodegradable fabric made from white pine tree clippings, and "offers the comfort of silk, the touch of cashmere and the lightness of linen."
Seacell is a fabric made out of Lyocell (a 100% wood pulp fiber) and seaweed. The theory is that your skin will absorb nutrients from the seaweed, which is quite mineral- and vitamin-rich

Alexander McQueen

Victoria Anderson

http://www.victoriaanderson.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/

lace flowers

Susan Cutts

Cherish

2011

One of a series of 5 dresses to be exhibited at the Tudor House Museum, Southampton from 3^rd March 2012 – October 2012. Each ‘dress’ has a 2metre drop of tulle sprayed with gampi pulp. The bodice is gampi paper. Within the folds of the dress hang miniature hats and gloves, also made from gampi. The inspiration for Cherish is taken from the history of the Tudor House Museum and Hampshire

Anya Gallaccio

Three sheets to the wind

2006

I like not knowing what is going to happen. I don’t want to illustrate a process. The process is what I’m interested in, so I have to extend that vocabulary. It’s a collaboration between the material and me.

Anya Gallaccio, 2006

Modern Hairwork

Container, detail, 2000, 22" x 30", human hair sewn into paper

J+R (brunette), 2005, 22" x 28", human hair sewn into canvas

Amazing blog, beautiful work link HERE

Laura Normandin

Trivets 1 & 2

Human hair on linen

2003

Jenny Hart

Oh Unicorn

2005

Human hair on leather

Jenny Hart is an American artist who works primarily with embroidery. She is the owner and founder of Sublime Stitching

Liyen Chong

Breathe

2009

Artists hair on cotton

Empire

2008

Asian and Polynesian hair embroidered on cotton

Little dragon looking left

2005

Artists hair on cotton

The Dreamer

2009

Blonde, black, white and red hair embroidered on cotton

I am a woman who dreamt I was a butterfly

2007

Artists hair on cotton

Macramé

A form of decorative knotting, Macramé (also known as Mexican Lace) is believed to originate from 13th century Arab weavers, who knotted the excess threads along the edges of their textiles into decorative fringing.

http://encyclopediaofneedlework.com/chapter_11.html

Slumber

Janine Antoni

Slumber

As Antoni sleeps, the electroencephalograph (EEG) machine records her rapid eye movements (REM) which correspond to her periods of dreaming in the sleep cycle.By day Antoni will use the REM graph to weave the pattern into the blanket she sleeps under using strips torn from her nightgown. Antoni has performed this piece at six other installations, each time wearing a nightgown meaningful to the venue. At MASS MoCA she will wear a nightgown made from textiles printed at the mill when it housed Arnold Print Works from the 1860s to the 1940s. Museum visitors are allowed access to the gallery during the day when Antoni is weaving, but the museum is closed to the public at night while Antoni is doing her dream work.

Jannis Kounellis

Unititled 1968

Wood and Wool

This work was made at the time of Kounellis’s first involvement with Arte Povera. The carefully dyed but loosely wrapped hanks of uncarded wool epitomise Kounellis’s choice of simple materials at this time. Linked with Arte Povera’s exploration of basic media, they also suggest Kounellis’s attraction to earlier civilisations. Although he had abandoned painting at this stage in his career, he later suggested that the structure of this work had been partly inspired by Jackson Pollock, with the hanging wool teased out to mimic dripped paint. (From the display caption April 2009)

Magdalena Abakanowicz

Magdalena Abakanowicz

" Abakans"

Beverly Semmes