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Embroidery Art Part 4

Kendra Kantor — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 14:36:58 +0000

Another feature on Embroidery Art
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3

Gillian Bates

Also see Gillian Bateswork on etsy

Embroidery Art 3

Kendra Kantor — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 16:13:33 +0000

When I first saw this posted on MrXStitch my mouth kind of dropped and I thought, “Wow!” My second thought was, “I need to show this amazing artist on my blog!”

Leslie Schomp

2 small scale embroidered portraits, one a self-portrait, one a portrait of her son, both embroidered beautifully and painstakingly from hair

I think that is just amazing and beautiful. Leslie Schomp uses a mix of hair and nylon thread in her embroidery.

What inspires your work?
I think of my work as memoirs so the examining of oneself is a huge inspiration for me. The act of drawing also is my content. I am always looking for ways to expand that practice and knowledge . When I have doubts about my work I try to remind myself that I need to see the idea even if I’m not sure about it. I try to think of my work as a sketchbook. I also love to look at work that was made in difficult circumstances, women who work tirelessly at their domestic duties and found time to make notations about their lives that still exist for us today.

What is the importance of using hair? Where do you get the hair you use? What are the
challenges of working with hair?
I make portraits with a combination of brown translucent nylon thread and hair. At first the hair, my own, served as another shade of brown to create value range. I liked that it genetically linked my self-portraits to myself. I also get hair from my husband.

Hair is very slippery and is often very short proving it to be difficult to work with at times. Hair work can be beautiful and creepy . I am intrigued and also repudiated by hair objects of the past. I like this tension of feelings about it. I also at times use pressed flowers in my work with the hair. Hair and pressed flowers are organic material that decay slowly. I like knowing that I grow the flowers and use them in my work with part of myself.

(the above questions and answers are from the MrXStitch article. Read the article for a full interview)

Embroidery Art part 2

Kendra Kantor — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 16:30:21 +0000

There were just way too many beautiful pieces of embroidery art and I decided to do another feature!
(see Part 1)

Peter Crawley – stitching on paper?! So amazingly beautiful

Robert Forman “Thread Painting” – unique and awesome!

Orly Cogan

Melissa Stanley – be sure to check out her flickr for more amazing work!

(ps – don’t forget to check out my Spring Cleaning Studio Destash Sale! Art supplies all under $15! If they don’t sell they will have to be thrown out)

Embroidery Art

Kendra Kantor — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 15:08:34 +0000

I have been in love with embroidery art lately!
I’m practicing my own patterns and trying to get better but I wanted to do a little feature of some awesome artists I’ve found.

I found this blog MrXStitch and it’s awesome
All the artist below, I found via that site. I have listed a link to the artist’s site when possible.

Jenny McCabe

crazybutcute

Meganileana- I think her work is my favorite I’ve seen so far. So beautiful.

lagidgette – I love the pops of color!

septemberhouse

I realize I still have a lot more I want to show so I’ll do another feature of Embroidery Art soon!