Cell Structure Textiles

This bag was inspired by the pollen cell on the front cover of the book Heaven and Earth: Unseen by the Naked Eye (see below), as were the featured textiles piece above and some of the pieces below.

As you can see below, this bag was made from two half-domes linked together. The main textiles piece was covered in fabric yoyos, puffs and sequins and beads.

I used a mixture of found, recycled and bought fabrics to make this layered piece and decorated it heavily with beads and sequins.

The inside of this bag is lined with a thick red velvet.

This is another piece based on the front cover of Unseen by the Naked Eye.

The backing for this was a thick piece of handmade paper. Paper can be sewn just as well on the sewing machine as fabric but you have to be aware that your needles may become blunt much quicker.

The pale honeycomb structure was cut from leather and sewn into place.

This was one of my favourite bags. I sold it quite a while ago now.

It's made with layers of delicate fabrics and coated with beads, sequins and knots.

I adore making little purses with purse frames.

The handle was made from handmade beaded baubles.

This piece is based on the pollen cells that inspired the textiles above but i decided I wanted to take liberties with the shape.

This piece is layered and melted . The blue thread was attached to the bobbin and I sewed the textiles piece upside down to get it onto the top surface- this is because the thread was too thick to go through the needle.

This piece has a lot of layered up paper in it as well as fabrics.

The main background was a thick piece of dark purple handmade paper that I picked up in Paperchase.

I also used a paper with holes in it and decorated the piece with handmade polymer clay beads.

The original Image I used for this piece can be found in "Unseen by the Naked Eye".

In this piece I used a lot of cut-away applique.

I think this is the first ever piece that I melted (by accident) and discovered that melting was much easier than cut away applique!

A pink version of the green textiles piece above.

I padded this piece to make the cell sections look "squidgy". I also decorated this piece with the same sort of beaded baubles that I used for the hexagon pollen purse's handle.

This bag was based on the surface of a human iris seen under a microscope.

This is another dome bag like the first bag on this page.

The main bag was decorated with discs of textiles- an interesting alternative to beads!

The handle was made from a secondhand necklace.

This silly little purse is one of my favourites. It's based on an image I found of a mitochondria cell. The image here shows the underside of the bag, so it just looks like a cocoon.

This little purse is a solid structure made from strong wire covered with layered melted textiles, clouds of organza and sequins and beads.

It doesn't hold much but it looks pretty cute!

This textiles piece and the one below were made for a Water Angel's costume (see my Revelation Costume lens for more information).

I trapped little pieces of textiles between two layers of blue organza.

This is a more solid version of the textiles piece above.

The funny looking popcorn parts of this piece were made with dollops of puff binder that were then heated.

Membrane is mostly made out of junk.

The circles are bottle tops from bubblebath (that's a lot of baths!).

This piece also features plastic bags that have been knitted and then melted and stretched.