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1. How To Do Japanese Gift-Wrapping Japanese-style gift-wrapping, called tsutsumi, uses paper and cloth to create simple but elegant wrappings for gifts, presents and packages. Furoshiki refers to using a large piece of cloth for the wrapping. These techniques are perfect for birthdays...
2. Hand Embroidery Hand embroidery is enjoying a revival as contemporary textile practitioners embrace the many possibilities of expressing themselves with thread. The craft has a long and interesting tradition with a long history and has bought many hours of creative...
3. Contemporary Art Quilts This lens is a work in progress and is my view of the art quilt movement. It's not meant to encompass everything about contemporary quilting, but the portion of it that interests me. Feel free to contact me, using the link in the sidebar, with comm...
4. Fabric Postcards Fabric postcards are enjoying a contemporary revival. In the past postcards were printed on silk, embroidered and have since become collectors items. Today however there is a new twist as people are making fabric postcards and mailing them to each o...
5. Discontinued Park Designs Items We get emails everyday regarding discountined Park Designs items. Many times we either have the items available or we have been able to lead a customer to the place where they can get what they're looking for.  We have tons of Park Designs items...
6. Textile Sculptures I create small textile sculptures using natural and found objects, combining them with knotted waxed linen.
7. 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...
8. 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...
9. Klimt Inspired Textiles Like a lot of people, I love the artwork of Gustav Klimt. I adore the way he used pattern- the way every surface is decorated with interesting shapes and swirls. People often said to me that my work reminded them of Klimt's which had never been an i...
10. How To Make Chenille Fabric A simple method for making your own chenille fabric.
11. 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...
12. Ming Tees - Asian Inspired Design Welcome to Ming Tees!   T Shirts and accessories inspired by a love of east Asian art and design, from Chinese painting, tapestries, ceramics, medallions,and symbols to Japanese kamon, kimonos, textiles, and woodcuts, surf style shirts and more....
13. How to Make a Draft Excluder Brr! It's getting cold. The doors and windows are closed, the heating is on but I can feel a distinct chill arounbd my ankles! It must be time to get the draft excluders out! In this lens I'm going to show you how you can easily make some recycled...
14. 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...
15. Stencil Dyeing (katazome) I'm excited to introduce you to this wonderful traditional Japanese art! As you know, a Squidoo lens is always evolving. If you have resources you would like me to include in this lens, please don't hesitate to contact me! This lens is an overview o...
16. Suzani Embroidery We see a wide range of embroidered piecework accross the Moslem world. In Central Asia we use the term Suzani but we see very similar work in Ottoman Textiles, Greek Textiles, Epirus Textiles, Resht Textiles, Moroccan Embroidery, Algerian embroidery,...
17. Needlework Samplers Samplers today are often seen as nostalgic decorative pieces associated with interior decoration. The rich history of samplers is hinted at in commercially produced patterns of today. Their historical role has been that they are a method of recording...
18. 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...
19. The Industrial Revolution The industrial revolution was a period in Britain from mid-1700s to the mid-1800s in which power-driven machines in factories replaced manual labor. The industrial revolution resulted from advances in applied science and engineering, such as the deve...
20. 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...