Distressed textiles

what I call RipTech ... I've made ripped handpainted silk textiles like these and ripped painted calico too ~ the results are fabulously tactile and visually a delight ......distressed canvas strips stitched to create 3D layers, dyed and manipulated for patterns. Inspired by Margaret Crowther

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One of the things I connect with the most about working with clay is its tactile surface quality throughout the process. When I first started out with the material I preferred the look of my pieces before they were glazed and fired. This was mostly due to the fact I hadn't develo

Personal Project - This is where we got to choose whatever we wanted to do in a textile context - so that we could broaden our skills. I choose to look into distressing fabrics, screen printing these distressed fabrics and projecting them with light to see what patterns would show from each sample. Then I planned on weaving my own fabric, taking shaping from the light projections.

various fabrics, hand and machine stitching, plant dyes, ink

paper on fabric, distressed

To create this piece inspired by landscape I've put muslin into an embroidery frame then used overstitch to pull the threads apart. You coul...

Textile Artist, Marian Jazmik, creates textured art from layers of heat treated synthetic fabrics, embellished with hand & machine embroidery. Marian photogr...