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1. Handmade Fiber Arts on Etsy, Mine..... and Others! This lens has brief descriptions of the many forms of Fiber Art, plus it will showcase the works of many of the creative and talented fiber artists you'll find on Etsy, whose work I greatly admire. The items featured here are all handmade with a...
2. Easy Halloween Yarn Crafts Patterns This Halloween crafts and gifts lens will help you to find many fun and creative Halloween patterns and craft projects to knit or crochet. If you are just learning to knit or crochet you probably look for quick and easy projects and patterns. Many o...
3. Rachel's Melted Fabrics My name's Rachel. I'm a textiles artist from the UK. I make wall hangings, bags, purses and figurines from layered, embroidered and melted textiles. Rachel's Melted Fabrics is a website I started in 2003 for all my crafty exploits. Find out more a...
4. Cell Structure Textiles Cell structures and microscopic imagery were a huge inspiration for my early textiles work. I started looking at microscopic imagery when I was designing my final major project for my degree in costume. I had this mad idea that it might be interesti...
5. Needlework Needlework is a term which embraces many forms of hand embroidery. In the past crochet, knitting, tatting, and lace making also fell in this category. Alongside the traditional interpretation this term can also embrace embellishment techniques applie...
6. Hand Crafted Bags and Purses For as long as I've been making textiles I've been making bags too. It's a little bit odd because I'm a rucksack-sort of gal. I need a huge bag so that I can lug around all my notes and books and whatever craft project I'm working on next. But I lov...
7. L'enfant et les sortileges When I studied Costume in Ohio, for 2 months in 2002, I was introduced to the Childrens' Opera "L'enfant et les Sortileges" by Ravel. This project was one that has since inspired a lot of my textiles work and the imagery and techniques that I use no...
8. Historical Women ...depicted in textiles art. I've finally recovered from my aversion to period costume, six years after finishing my Degree in Costume for the Screen and Stage. To celebrate that fact I produced a quartet of textiles pieces based on some of my favo...
9. Redwork - a Vintage Needle-Craft This lens is on history and pattern sources in the world wide web for the wounderful vintage needle-craft Redwork and it's use in Redwork quilts...
10. Mother and Child Art One theme that crops up, again and again, in my work is the theme of motherhood. I'm not a mother myself, nor am I particularly broody! But pregnant women and mothers and babies feature a lot in my textiles work. The first textiles piece, I produce...
11. The Garden of the Empress The Garden of the Empress is a textiles sketchbook based on the third card of the Major Arcana called "The Empress" which features a motherly goddess. This textiles sketchbook is completely made out of fabrics and different recycled materials and ac...
12. All About Melted Rachel The simple answer, as to why I call myself Melted Rachel, is that when I started making textiles pieces I loved to melt through layers of fabric to create interesting chaotic texture. A friend suggested I named my website Melted Fabrics and the rest,...
13. Melting and Felting Melting and Felting is a Textiles book available from Rachel's Melted Fabrics. I produced this e-book (it's also available on CD) during 2008 when I didn't have access to a decent sewing machine. Explore the scrumptious possibilities of felt with m...
14. Foundling- A Textiles Sketchbook Foundling is a Textiles Sketchbook available from Rachel's Melted Fabrics. I wanted to make this lens to explore some of the ideas in this e-sketchbook a little further and to explain some of the research behind my craftwork. The first little seed...
15. Allsewnupfabrics Tavistock Pannier Market Fabric and Craft Supplies Hello all.... I have always been interested in needlecraft. I took the plunge about ten years ago and became self employed I now trade in fabrics and craft materials at the Tavistock Pannier Market down here in Devon Tuesday to Saturday inclusive 8....
16. Recycling for textiles It seems that in this culture we're given so many "things"- our houses are full of "stuff". Before we are born we're given gifts and this carries on throughout our lives. We throw things away, we break things, we send them to charity shops. Of cour...
17. Melted Fabrics Calendar I really want to make a calendar for my Lulu store. I made one before but it was fairly simple and, because Lulu's prices are probably a little more than your usual calendar, I want to make something that gives a little more than the dates and a pre...
18. Melted Fabrics Book Melted Fabrics was the first book I wrote detailing the techniques I use on my textiles pieces. In the image opposite you can see that the front cover is one of my layered textiles pieces. This one even has paper layered up in it. People kept asking...
19. Summer Quilt I originally produced four quilts, based on the four seasons, in 2005. I started with Autumn and Spring and then rushed out Summer and Winter for a solo exhibition I had in May of that year. Although I liked Summer and Winter I was never fully happ...
20. Melted Dolls As well as making textiles, wall hangings and bags and purses, I make art dolls and altered dolls. This is a collection of some of my Art dolls and Figurines. Art dolls aren't for playing with, they're mini- sculptures and meant to be admired. An...