#Textile Arts

[thesaltofcarthage]

crochet has almost all of these benefits as well

[anxiousangerball]

I don't know who needs to hear this, but

YOU DO NOT NEED TO START A NEW HOBBY!

STEP AWAY FROM THE TEXTILES!

YOU DON'T NEED MORE YARN!

THAT FABRIC IS NOT CALLING TO YOU! LEAVE IT ALONE!

[ghost-toe]

made my first quilt 👍

pattern is "serenade park avenue" by toby lischko

[lionofchaeronea]

Fragment of a linen tunic from Egypt, dating to the 5th or 6th century AD/CE, when the province was part of the East Roman (Byzantine) Empire. The fragment features clavus bands with a red ground and black border; within the bands are polychrome figures of animals. Each band ends in a pendant medallion of inset wool. The tunic is now in the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York City, NY, USA. Photo credit: Cooper Hewitt.

[noballoonsinspace]

Beginner

Intermediate

Advanced

Self-taught one work-in-progress at a time so that there’s some beginner stuff I don’t know and advanced stuff that I do know and I will forever be making silly beginner mistakes in complex projects that I’ll probably never complete :)

[pierrotsoup]

late 19th/early 20th c bakhtiari rug 🌟 textile arts I love you so ...oughh the detail!!

[junipernight]

Sweet mother, I cannot weave - slender Aphrodite has overcome me with tendonitis.

[justthreadyall]

boy why you so sadge

[fernsandtales]

🫛 🥕 I will never stop loving making these whimsy needle books.

I enjoy every bit of them, especially how tactile they are. They take forever and a day to embroider, crochet and needle felt.

I have a desire to make an A5 book cover, but I fear it's going to be way too expensive for me to be able to sell it.

[purchase here]

[linsaangs]

IM FINALLY DONE WITH THIS PROJECT!!! these are two matching commissions for blvckgvrlic on bluesky of their kitties!! this is my first time working with stumpwork so be niceys.

[gailyinthedark]

[sidles up to you in a dark parking lot]

Hey. Do you want elbow patches. Yeah I noticed the elbows of your sweater are worn through, I can fix that for you. I got tapestry yarn, loads of it, all different colours. Price? Depends on what you're offering. Homemade cookies? Yeah, I can work with that. Bring 'em tomorrow, same time, same place. Love you too, man. Love you too.

[quiltingwitch]

Swords for a sword lover, finally complete ⚔️

[todayontumblr]

Wednesday, November 29.

You reap what you sew.

Never have truer words been spoken. But they come as good news for Tumblr's sewing community, however, who have been sewing some absolute delights. Some real œuvres d'art. Some winner-winner chicken dinners.

As luck would have it, #sewing is trending. And it's trending right now, so we have reaped a selection of these very dinners for your eyes only. We have then asked ourselves just what did we do to deserve y'all, and your resplendent talents.

[thehaberdasheress]

TRIUMPH over TAPESTRY

One of the big blessings of the 2024 Kickstarter was getting to work more with tapestry blanket design. These cotton blankets are beautiful and cozy, and give me a lot of freedom as a designer.

The downside is, since I'm not the one programming them into the loom or weaving them, it can be slow and frustrating sometimes. I often don't know how my design or its colours will translate to tapestry until I receive the finished piece. Alas for me, it's just also really frigging cool to see how they manage to combine specific coloured threads to create such complicated images, so I persist.

That's not the final design of the Celtic fish blanket, btw. When I found that one green that absolutely pops, I moved it to the focus of the pattern.

...For that colourway, that is. There are three.

So yeah! I finally got it done! I have bashed away at these designs until I felt really happy with them.

Lily of the Valley Tapestry Blanket

The "Celtic Sea" design is an adaptation of a Jugendstil pattern, part of the 1890-1910 German movement that parallelled Art Nouveau. The lily pattern is Art Nouveau itself, adapted from an 1896 ceramic tile pattern. And I designed the "Compass Star" pattern on my own, because I love geometric designs.

Compass Star Tapestry Blankets

And if nobody minds, I'm gonna go SLEEP

[lionofchaeronea]

Textile applique (cotton and camelid fiber) in the shape of a fish, made by an artist of the Ychsma (Pachacamac) people living on the central coast of Peru, ca. 1400. The Ychsma people commonly wore mantles onto which appliques such as this were stitched. The symbol may have had religious significance, reflecting worship of the sea, from which the Ychsma derived much of their livelihood. Now in the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, USA.