Textiles

Japanese-born, Berlin-based artist Chiharu Shiota’s haunting installations are like beautiful, suffocating spider webs.

as visitors to the 2015 venice art biennale enter the japan pavilion, 'the key in hand' by chiharu shiota infills the building, intertwining entrants within a maze of vibrantly colored yarn.

This combination of maps and stitching is really interesting

mixed media textiles

Inspirations...

hand stitched mushroom soft sculptures using rust dyed cloth - Jule Mallett of www.hengrels.co.uk

Dutch artist Purr Anders transforms old photographs into beautiful jewelry. After printing the images onto fabric, Anders crafts them into leaf and

@lavaalampp // 'modern life is rubbish'

These striking jewelry pieces are by German artist Frederike Schürenkämper. To see more of her work go to her website.

Fungi/lichen. marianjazmik.co.uk

tea bag dress inspired by jennifer collier

I am working on my Diploma with Sian Martin's Distant Stitch course. This is a distance-learning course in design, textile arts, creative embroidery and mixed media based in the UK.