#fibre sculpture

[mesterspets]

New piece! Am calling her “Skör” (fragile in Swedish).

Assembled from strips of lace, a doily, and some fiddly needle lace and crochet for the teeth. Starched with diluted wood glue.

Perfect in time for Halloween!

[pointy-kitty]

Needle felt commission for @calibunny !! A lovely pastel bori!

Always pleased to make a neopet, and boris have such fun shapes. All these colors together were very nice on the eyes as well.

Thank you calibunny! ✨

[fleshaesthetic]

Tamara Kostianovsky | Mesmerizing Flesh, 2023

kinetic installation

[pardalote]

Beetles, 2020.

Workshop to make these guys, here: https://pardalote.teachable.com/

[monikahmakes]

23-31. Mixed fibers over cardboard form.

Oh I am PLEASED with this one. And it feels really good to hold and touch, both because of the texture and because of the shape. Currently building more forms!

[hall0ween-halftime]

꧁ Serena from MTV's Downtown doll I made ꧂

[nettledryfelting]

Nettle dry felting koala

Hello!

This is a brooch made using the dry felting technique. Available here

[scandalousadventures]

From a little while ago, a doll inspired by Japanese masks specifically and yokai nebulously. I wanted to attempt a more unusual silhouette from my clown style with big, graspy hands and longer legs more evocative of bloomers. Just a funky little guy, really ❣️

[leonlavender]

"Cat"

Made with a polymer clay face (with glow in the dark eyes) and a needle felted body.

[earthpiecevii]

Kay Sekimachi, White Hanging Sculpture, 1968, Nylon monofilament

[thestonestudiosculpture]

The material used in it is fibre. Our best artisans wonderfully craft this sculpture.

To know more about the product: https://www.thestonestudio.in/product/head-pop-art-statue/ To check our website: www.thestonestudio.in Phone No: +91-7008222943 Email Id: info@thestonestudio.in

[blistexenthusiast]

Natalie Baxter, Sleep Tight

[pointy-kitty]

Needle felt plushie bori! ✨ Featuring real button eyes!

He will be up for sale when I open my shop in the new year 💖

[shilohta]

Not yet it's final evolution but finished enough for the requirements of this week's course, I present "And While The Fires Are Burning, Let's Make A Bunch More Gasoline (with apologies to Geoff Berner's Super Subtle Folk Song)" aka my "the oceans are full of plastic and the world is on fire" piece.

Needle punched on wool fabric with strips of reusable Walmart bags (from some of my instacart customers), and blue yarn (75% acrylic 25% wool, originally from Zellers), continents of wet felted wool that was ripped with a seam ripper to pull up the wisps of fire. Wooden safety matches.

Below are some of the challenges of constructing this piece. Cutting the felt open with a steak knife (because I was too lazy to go back to my desk for my scissors/ knew that if I got my scissors I would forget them in the dye kitchen and stress about having lost them in my messy desk). Testing various plastic strips (realizing the project would go faster if I paired the plastic with acrylic yarn). The plastic recycling bag that wrapped around the cutting blade. My pile of cut walmart worms. Using a drop spindle to ply the Walmart worms with the yarn (also showing off the Oxford punch needle the instructor brought in). Figuring out how to assemble the globe (I stapled 5 of the seams and did a ladder stitch to close the final seam. I should have hand stitched all of them but there's no way I could have machine stitched it, especially turning it inside out). And then mapping out the continents onto a spherical surface. That took a fair bit of time and troubleshooting. I made paper templates so I could test proportions before committing to cutting them out of my felt. I tried to add more detail to North America but it ended up quite wonky. Eurasia was a struggle but I ended up piecing it together with smaller sections, which also created mountain ranges.

Future plans: this is my contribution to the interdepartment collaboration on the theme of Nature and the Environment. I could add more handstitching and embellishment to the continents. I would like to refine my matches placement and create charms of oil and gas company logos to hang from the matches (likely using embroidery on water soluble material so they're light and airy).

I think I will abandon my dream of having actual fire on this piece, for safety reasons. However for the exhibition I think it would be fun to freeze ice onto the poles and let it slowly melt, as a sort of performance piece.

[pardalote]

Beetle shelf flyby time!

Workshop details here