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Art To Wear refers to a branch of fashion where art, clothing and creativity are all brought together to make garments that are not only wearable but often one-of-a-kind pieces of fiber art and jewelry.
This is one of my own pieces of art to wear, the dragon I painted on the back of a denim jacket in high school. (it came out beautiful and very stiff...lol...)
The Book That Started It All
documenting the birth of the art to wear movement
My mother's jaw dropped when her she opened her holiday present in 1986 and realized her almost-not-a-teenager-anymore daughter had given her this book. We both washed our hands and sat down on the couch to go through the huge volume page by page. We took our time and savored every bit of it. I must have re-read that book a good dozen times before going back to college after winter break.
Art to Wear
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The art to wear movement really was suddenly born, or galvanized in the public eye, with the publication of ART TO WEAR by Julie Schafler Dale in 1986. This book not only traces the birth of modern art to wear starting in the 60s, but features every single significant artist that was working or had produced work up until that time. What had been dismissed as uber-arts-&-crafts or "rock star clothing" or street costumes was finally organized and discussed as variations of fashion created with highly-skilled artisan tailoring and sewing.
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Wearable Artists
- Doshi Fiber Art
- Explore the beauty of Silk Shibori Art to Wear. Doshi creates exquisite hand dyed clothing in original designs that range from contemporary to traditional.
- Marian Clayden, Inc. - Couture Fashion using Shibori, Cut-Velvets and Lace
- Marian Clayden's uniquely sensuous clothes are brilliant examples of how art and fashion can converge. Her couture fashion collections take the soul and vision of an artist and blend them with the dramatic flair of a fashion designer.
- Genevieve Dion Shibori Couture
- Dion's Award-winning work is characterized by vitality in color, texture, & fluidity. These aspects, together with the use of fine starting materials & traditional couture techniques, lie at the heart of Dion's work
- Welcome to Odette Larouche Web Site
- MY PHILOSOPHY IS THE USE OF NATURAL FIBERS AS SILK, LINEN, AND COTTON IN ORDER TO EXPRESS MY RESPECT TOWARDS MATERIALS COMING FROM EARTH AND WHICH WILL RETURN TO THE EARTH
- Candiss Cole
- Simply the best in Hand Woven.
- About Australia's Fashion Fantasia
- Fashion Fantasia is an annual awards event for wearable art. Initially the dream of Rossy Roberts-Thomson, it is now in its fourth year.
- Art to Wear
- The following pages contain photographs of many of the Australian Wearable Art pieces exhibited at the Needlework Quilt and Craft Show, Darling Harbour, Sydney, June 2005.
- Design Museum to hold Art-to-Wear exhibit - Arts
- Design Museum to hold Art-to-Wear exhibit, 'Slash' features textiles reflecting nature, human condition
- World Of WearableArt - Nelson, New Zealand
- An annual International Art and Fashion event where designers can enter garments of wearable art with the chance of winning a prestigious wearable art award, based in Nelson New Zealand.
- Susan MacDonald Wearable Art - About Susan MacDonald Wearable Art
- Susan MacDonald is an award-winning textile artist whose quilts and wall hangings have appeared for the last twenty five years in invitational exhibitions in Canada, the United States, Britain and France, on CD covers, in national publications, and in Canadian, European and American collections.
Art To Wear Photo Gallery
Jaime the supermodel!
I bet she never bumps into someone else wearing the same outfit
Wearable art
in the window of Kirkcaldies.
ROB JAN'S FANTASTIQUE BADGE CLOAK #1
from serial brides to stepford wives
Pin backs, wearable art.
cotton and cotton/microfiber yarns.
i look like a little kid! hah.
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The Pleats and Ruffles of Candace Kling
One of the benefits of going to graduate school in the Bay Area was that the art to wear movement is very strong there, and I got to see the work of a lot of artists that most people only see pictures of in books.One of the highlights of one textile class was a visit to the East Bay studio of Candace Kling. Candace works using a lot of old Victorian ribbon folding and pleating technqiues, but she uses them in ways that aren't traditional, or she pushes the scale so that she's smocking fabric for an installation and not the front of a baby's dress.
She's very well-known for making all sorts of fantastic hats and helmets using these wild ribbon techniques. When we were at her studio, she asked if anyone wanted to try on one of her helmets. Only one other girl besides myself said yes. We both thought the others were crazy for passing up a chance like this, and you could tell they all thought we were crazy for putting on such wild hats. Personally, I think of this one as maybe one that Whoopi Goldberg's Star Trek character Guinan might wear.
I found this helmet to be kinda of heavy, but very well balanced to wear. It definitely made you feel otherworldly and regal.
Books on Art To Wear
These aren't mainstream books on wearable art. They are rarities out of my own collection. Both were made to provide coverage on 1960s and 1970s trends in costume, art, clothing and fashion. The concept of wearable art hadn't solidified yet and both books employ the term "folk art" to describe what they are talking about and showing.
I find I can pour over both books endlessly, reading and re-reading about artists and their creations.
I find I can pour over both books endlessly, reading and re-reading about artists and their creations.
Native Funk & Flash ; An Emerging Folk Art
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American Denim
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Champagne and Chocolate Cloaking
When I was in graduate school, I took a class one summer semester on wearable art. The overall theme was tied in with some fashion event at the end of the summer with champagne and chocolates, so we did a lot of projects that riffed off that theme.This is my project for the assignment of making a garment with no sewing, and no more than three ties to fasten it. It is a type of Greek cloak, made from a single long lenth of fabric, with a knot at the back of the neck, and two ties that wrap and tie at the wrists.
The fabric is about 30 feet long, and it swoops up from the floor, over one arm, back down to the floor, comes up and over the second shoulder and then descends to the floor again. The two panels knot at the back of the neck to hold them up securely. Tieing the wrists makes the sleeves stay in place. The Greeks probably also wore a belt with it, but I was only allowed three knots maximum as part of my assignment.
The color of the fabric is champagne. I found it at a discount fabric place for less than $1 per foot. The border was handstamped by me, using fabric paint. The border is "truffles." I used shoe polish daubers to make perfect circles in various chocolate colors and then went back with glitter and texture paints and detailed chocolate frosting and embellisments to make a half dozen visual "flavors." Since we couldn't do any actual sewing for this project, I glued the hems on the two raw edges. The wrist ties were cords I braided from various brown and gold yarns, threads and materials.
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DIY Art To Wear
Resources for sewing and crafting your own wearable art.
- Art to Wear Patterns
- Art to Wear Patterns from the smockingstore.com
- Dharma Trading Company
- Excellent textiles, fabric paints, dyes, really everything for fiber art.
- Iron ons for shirts [Archive] - PhotoshopTechniques Forums
- Discussion and resources for making and printing your own iron-on transfers
- How to "dye" with fabric markers, fabric paint, printing, stamping, etc.
- Technically speaking, most of the methods described on this page are not actually dyeing; instead, they are fabric painting.
- Wearable art - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Wearable art, also known as Artwear, describes the making of individually designed pieces of usually hand-made clothing as artistic expressions. Pieces may be sold and/or exhibited.
- Sewing patterns, wearable art, machine sashiko patterns by Bette Gant Designs
- Sewing, quilting and clothing patterns using machine Sashiko and batiks from Java are designed for you by Bette Gant. This site also features dyes, batiks, other patterns, historic costume rentals and a CLEARING HOUSE of bargains for the quilter, sewer and craft enthusiast.
- Hallowig
- I found myself wondering just what I could do with all that cheap, bright acrylic yarn one finds in craft shops. I also found myself thinking about Halloween. Add in a bad hair day and this is what I got.
- BleuArts: Free Pattern: The Leia Hat
- My inspiration for this pattern came to me one day while shopping in a sporting goods store. I saw this fabulous full length white down coat that reminded me of a Princess Leia outfit. I thought, wow, now that would look great with a knitted 'wig' hat. And so, Leia was born.
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Art To Wear or Wearable Art: Take Your Pick!
- Ballagio Art To Wear
- Setting the pace in Wearable Art
- Santa Fe Weaving Gallery, ZAWA, artisan clothing cloth artwear art-to-wear
- Santa Fe Weaving Gallery has expanded upon its track record as a leading showcase of Art-to-Wear to move in the more contemporary artisanal style category.
- Textures Gallery Artists
- GALLERY OF ARTISTS Art To Wear, Art For The Home
- Wearable Art Hand Painted Clothing
- Excluesive Fashions hand painted Safari Animals, Western, Southwestern, Novelty Regular Size to 3x
- Asheville's Gallery of the Mountains: Art-to-Wear
- Become your own work of art by adding elegant handmade fashions to your life.
- Unique Fervor art-to-wear
- Semiprecious stones, silver jewelry, unique designer clothing, fabric handbags, eyeglass cases and pillows
- MaxEquations - Wearable Artisan Made Art to Wear Organic Clothing
- Hand Painted, Art to Wear, Organic Clothing made from 100% Organic Cotton Jersey and other Organic Fabrics. Wearable art in Regular and Plus sizes.
- Art to Wear from Markay: Unique Handmade Jewelry & Handcrafted Designer Jewelry
- Art to Wear: Unique Handmade Jewelry & Handcrafted Designer Jewelry, featuring Gemstone Collar Necklaces, handcrafted earrings, Choker Necklaces and other custom handmade jewelry, as art to wear.
