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Inspiration

We have curated some of our favourite links here. Some could be for you to participate in and some just to inspire you!

We can take no responsibililty for links that no longer work.

Felt Love This short film made me cry!

Friday Feature Artist from Fibre Arts Take Two: Carlotta Parisi

From School of Stitched Textiles Janine Heschl: Artistry And Advocacy

Peter Frederiksen Free-motion Embroidered Classic Cartoons

Explore the Ancient Art of Kumihimo Japanese Braiding 

Karola Pezarro Embroidered Portraits

Kaci Smith Weaves from Wishbones and Branches

Andrea Love - Cooking with Wool - Needlefelted animation

Five museums where you can find bead art - from Google Arts

Paper Bead Tapestries by Sanaa Gateja

A Catalogue of Stitched CMYK Studies by Evelin Kasikov Merges Printing and Embroidery

The Festival of Quilts Competition 2024 - find out more and Enter

Isobelle Ouzman’s Altered Books

Debbie Lawson -  Life-Sized Animals in Ornate Rugs

Grace Gillespie’s Vibrant Linocut Prints of Flowers and Foliage

Samantha Moore's touching film, Visible Mending about knitting therapy

Maria A. Guzmán Capron’s Patchwork Figures

Sozai Center designs a durable speckled fabric made entirely from recycled apple waste

The Bronze Dress mystery

Nengiren’s Embroidered Figures

Embroidered Patches Redefine Vintage Postcards and Photographs by Han Cao

Intricate Embroidery Bring Yumi Okita’s Moths to Life

10 Textiles Artists Inspired by the Ocean

Textile Artists Inspired by Nature

10 Textile Portrait Artists

10 Contemporary Felt Artists

Machine Embroidery Artists You Have to Follow

Hand Embroidery Artists You Have to Follow

Inspiring Patchwork Quilt Artists You Have to Follow

Inspiring Knit Artists You Have to Follow

Karen Turner Stitching Life

Ýr Jóhannsdóttir - Textile designer and artist - based in Iceland 

Rachel Gooden: Enchanting Embroidery & Taxidermy Stumpwork

Ester Magnusson's Human Skull in Bobbin Lace

Crocheted on Toast by Maria Skog

Gee's Bend Quilters

The story of using Elephant dung to make paper, from Elly Express
And if you fancy making paper from more tradition ingredients, you can find hour how in our paper making class.

Nastasya Shulyak’s Miniature Felted Friends