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sharron parker’s handmade felt wall sculpture

Written on October 18, 2010 by Susan Lomuto in Archives-Protected, Featured, Fiber

Sharron Parker pays homage to the nature she loves, not by trying to capture what she sees directly, but by creating something new that celebrates the nature that inspired it.

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Capturing the Light II, Handmade Felt, 45″ x 86″ x 4″

She works with wool in a manner similar to the way that a painter works with paint. Using a few basic colors, she blends them together to create new colors – her palette is a drum carder that allows her to comb the basic wool colors together. The wall hangings, ranging in size from small, framed pieces to large-scale works more than 7 feet wide, are reminiscent of sweeping vistas, complex rock surfaces and night skies.

Rose Petal Screen, Handmade Felt, 76″ x 58″ x 34″

Tunic II, Handmade Felt, 31″ x 25″ x 3″

Raku Sky, Handmade Felt, 34″ x 42″ x 3″

Copper Traces, Handmade Felt, 28″ x 58″ x 3″

Rockface II, Handmade Felt, 31″ x 42″ x 2″

Written in Stone IV, Handmade Felt, 38″ x 49″ x 2″

I use the ancient technique of feltmaking not to capture what I’ve seen directly, but to create something new. The simplicity of the technique — combing, layering, and working dyed unspun wool in hot water until the fibers lock — allows me to work spontaneously, and often experimentally. The shape of a piece might come from a bird’s wing, the color from crystals under a microscope, a line from the sinuous edge of a pond meeting the shore, and the texture from the bark of a birch tree. I wish to celebrate nature, not to mirror it.” Sharron Parker

In the video above Parker walks us through her process. More from the artist on artful home. [/private_archives]

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lisa klakulak’s strong felt

Written on February 23, 2010 by Susan Lomuto in Archives-Protected, Featured, Fiber, Latest Posts

For Lisa Klakulak, hand-dyed felted wool is the ideal canvas to express her insights regarding today’s society. Drawing with machine embroidery she combines stitching, weaving and beading to create sculptural and functional pieces that reference our universal vulnerability as human beings.

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Electric Water
8.5″ x 10″ x 6″, Merino wool fleece, cotton and metallic thread;
wet felted, hand stitched, shellac stiffened

Covered Seed
12″x 12″ x 3″, Merino wool, silk gauze, reclaimed pine cone seed casings, cotton thread and fill; wet felted, naturally dyed with walnut hulls, hand stitched

Bubble
13.5″ x 15″ x 3″, Wool, Mohair yarn, Merino, Finn/Rambouillet wool fleece, cotton sewing thread, waxed linen, glass seed beads, reclaimed tree thorns, cotton and seed fill; handwoven, fulled, wet felted, machine embroidered, hand stitched, beaded

Bracelet
Merino wool fleece, silk fabric, cotton thread, reclaimed rocks; wet flelted, naturally dyed with madder root and osage, free-motion machine embroidered

Ring
Merino wool fleece, glass seed beads; wet felted,
naturally dyed with Osage Orange wood and Cochineal insects, hand beaded

Recent concepts conveyed in the work reference issues related to human vulnerability, the resulting need for physical security and mental defense and the unfortunate isolation that often results. I work primarily with protein fibers from silk cocoons and animal fleece as well as natural materials and human-made products that offer a sense of comfort and security through qualities of insulation, durability, convenience and control. Lisa Klakulak

Klakulak’s handbag and body textile portfolios are extensive.

Watch this video clip of the artist demonstrating a technique.

Electric Water (pictured above) is part of the current exhibition at Craft Alliance, HOT TEA: 12TH BIENNIAL TEAPOT EXHIBITION.

More on the Fiber Arts magazine website.
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gwen samuels: the first female language

Written on July 29, 2009 by Susan Lomuto in Archives-Protected, Featured, Fiber, Latest Posts, Recycled

A few years ago I tried my hand at printing images on used dryer sheets after reading about the technique online. I was intrigued by the idea of using the gossamer material to capture ghost-like images of my daughter’s childhood. I didn’t have much success with my first attempts, but for a long time I collected used dryer sheets, waiting for the inspiration to try again. I may have found that inspiration in the pictorial stitched garments made by New York native Gwen Samuels.

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Shrink To Fit, used dryer sheets, horsehair, photographic images

I work with the unimportant and thrown away; plastic, wire, cut-up felt, tape, used dryer sheets, teabags and other found objects. I piece and draw with hand-sewn stitches that form scars on the smooth surface that map the making.

Growing Up, transparancies, photographic images, handmade paper

Samuels studied textile designs at Syracuse University and after graduation designed wallpaper before moving to the West Coast in 2001 to make art full time. She prints images from childhood in repeat patterns on plastic transparencies, dryer sheets and tea bags, hand-stitching them together to create wall hanging garments and quilts that speak to the lessons learned in a girl’s childhood.

Threadbare, photographic images, transparancies, used tea bags

For me, stitches are the first female language. They connect and create pathways, some meandering, others direct, reflecting varying emotional responses, like when handwriting shifts in response to emotions. Strings randomly hang from the edges signifying the “work-in-progress” that is life. The pieces reflect my love of the handmade, mended and discarded.

More about the artist here and here. I think it takes a certain kind of courage - a willingness to risk - when you choose to make art with materials that are not meant for art. So tell me, dear readers, what unusual materials do you incorporate into your work?
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