|
|
|
Fabric Art Collage - Links
©2005 by aisling d'art
Many people who begin in paper arts or quilting, become
interested in fabric art collages. I began making fabric art collages for wearable
art, quilts, and pillows, early in 1981. Back then, I was
using inspiration from Jean Ray Laury, Maria deConceisao's amazing book,
Wearable art: Innovative designs for clothing and fibers (still
HIGHLY recommended), and
Fabric Photos, a very early book about image transfer techniques.
Well before home computers and printers, I was using iron-on mending tape
and fresh photocopies to transfer vintage and antique photos images onto silk. It
was a difficult and unreliable process, but worthwhile when it worked.
Today, we have a wealth of resources available to us, for use with fabric
art collage. Here are just a few of the many, many fabulous websites that
offer tips and great examples related to fabric art collage. In most cases, the links
are in alphabetical order, not by priority.
- Fabric Art Collage - Examples and inspiration
- Chameleon Quilts -
Deana Hartman's embellished modern quilts.
- Darcy Falk, successfully
creating fabric collages as fine art.
- Jean Ray Laury, a
friend, and one of the great, classic voices in fabric art.
- Kathleen Field,
well-known for her quilts, now working in different, collage-type directions.
- LaLa's Land - a brilliant
site by Lesley Riley, a friend and innovator in image transfer and fabric art.
- Painted Threads - fabric
art cards, light collage styles.
- Studio78 - Rayna Gillman,
working with a variety of fabric collage techniques and themes.
- Turkey Red -
including Mavis Leahy's gallery of textile collages.
- Yvonne Porcella,
another good friend and important teacher of color in art quilts.
- Voodoo Cafe - Rice
Freeman-Zachery's site includes wearables made with collage-type techniques.
- Fabric Art Collage - Instruction
- Fabric Art Collage - Related tangents
- If you're going to embellish with polymer clay beads, etc., Beckah Krahula's
website,
Bearing Beads, is a
must-see.
- Stitching Memories (creating cross-stitched copies of photos, etc.)
- Not fabric-based, but intriguing ideas that could be adapted to fabric art:
- Fabric Art Collage - Supplies
Do you know a site that should be listed here?
Let me know. I can't include every wonderful site, but I
try to include a wide variety of fabric collage artists. Thanks!
| |
