#mixed media textiles

[viviennehollisart]

Ethereal water creatures, I think they're the unicorns of the underworld...

Yellow Seahorse

The yellow seahorse Swam as One Finding her treasures Of Silver stones And us mere mortals Think there's none

Our human hands Wanting those treasures Shallowy go Into the crust We pull them back out ... Just a handful of dust!

Shop: Yellow Seahorse

[saltedsnailstudio]

“becoming” banner by jasper alexander

linocut print on fabric, home sewn utilizing recycled textiles

[soupandcats]

Quilt dress ❤️ this along w a few other originals will be up in my shop next month so keep an eye out for that!

[tompuschautz]

Quantum Entanglement. Trimmed and glued Needle Punch.

https://instagram.com/tom.puschautz

[embroid-away]

Thunderbolts (2016), No. 7 Variant Cover by Marco Checchetto

a Marvel Trumps Hate ( @marveltrumpshate ) 2021 commission created with embroidery floss, watercolors, fabric, and fine glitter paint on aida cloth in a 10" bamboo hoop frame

A lot of life happened between the commission date and now, but I'm very proud of how this turned out, and I know that 2021 Rebecca wouldn't have been able to create this, so the time was worth it. (No offense 2021 Rebecca, we've just grown as an artist.)

Bonus for details and ✨sparkles✨

[monikahmakes]

Six small square studies in progress.

It makes me happy to see how many different materials and processes I'm using here- that makes it feel like a particularly good form of practice/exploration as I try to find my rhythm. Materials include cardboard, papers, cotton, linen, wool, viscose, acrylic paint, house paint, ink, cloth, wire, tyvek, polymer clay, plastic, glass, pearl, and my kid's old dried-out clay. Processes include crochet, knitting, felting, embroidery, my process of making paper stones and their trimmings, and all kinds of collage/assemblage stuff.

[cicada-heart]

luna moth embroidery hoop 🌙🤍 made with gouache, watercolor, and hand embroidery on muslin, stitched onto lace

etsy // ig // patreon

[garadinervi]

Avram Finkelstein, Untitled, 1972, (detail), (wool, cotton, and lurex), 2019 [Commissioned by The Shed, New York, NY. © Avram Finkelstein]

[fyblackwomenart]

"Harmony of Heritage" by Sophia Chioma

[killyridols]

untitled by rosie lee tompkins, 1987, 100.5 × 70.5 inches

[itscolossal]

In ‘Spirit Level,’ Tau Lewis’s Monumental Figures Usher in an Unearthly World

[shedding-antlers]

Inner wardrobe, shirt 5 close up

[fabric paint, embroidery, and beading on fabric]

[tompuschautz]

https://instagram.com/tom.puschautz

[embroid-away]

What If: Captain America Were Revived Today? #44 (April 1983) by Peter B. Gillis and Sal Buscema; Original Image by John Romita Sr.

In this What If? Marvel tale, Captain America is unfrozen in 1983 rather than the 1960s. Without the leadership of Steve Rogers, The Avengers disband. Meanwhile, a Captain America imposter, who calls himself a "real American," has decided to use his newfound influential media status to publicly support a National Identity Card to "deal with illegal aliens,” to suggest that members of civil rights groups "ought to think seriously as to whether or not their actions contribute to the strengthening of communist enemies," and declare that if those groups tear the country apart with protests, martial law is justified "for the peace to find a solution.”

Neighborhoods with large black populations (e.g., Harlem) are walled off and forced into poverty, and one character even mentions that Jewish people are being “put back into camps.” The right-wing politicians make sure that things like this aren’t shown on television, keeping the majority of the American public ignorant of the horrors committed with their indifferent support. The public are simultaneously told that with some sacrifices, America can be free once again. The fake Captain America confronts a group of peaceful protestors, and he is shot by a sniper (in what reads like an inside job), allowing the police to have “reason” to attack the protestors. The imposter does not die and instead uses the attack to provide more reason for the violent crackdown against protesting groups.

When the true Captain America is unfrozen, he is horrified to see what America has become, especially with his emblem stamped all over it. He immediately seeks out the resistance forces (who clearly represent the Black Panther Party) and joins their cause, stating that "the wrongs [he's] seen will take much more than one man to right -- but [he's] got a name to clear, a costume to unsoil-- and a country to die for!!"

By the time Steve joins them, the resistance only has one chance left to stop the American downfall: a political convention where the "America First" party will be able to secure its support to sweep the national elections and allow them "to return America to the pure and great nation [the] forefathers envisioned."

The resistance strikes just as the convention begins. The Captain America imposter is no match in a fight against the true Captain America -- especially against a Steve Rogers who's fucking pissed. ("Get up so I can knock you down!!")

With the imposter knocked unconscious, Captain America addresses the convention crowd, warning that an America that does not represent all its people does not deserve to exist at all; that liberty can be "as easily snuffed out [in America] as in Nazi Germany" and "as a people, we are no different from them."

The crowd realizes that the man speaking before them is the true Captain America and cheers. Captain America holds his hand up and silences them, stating that he will not allow them the chance to simply replace one idol with another. He alone can’t undo the horrible damage, and he pleads that there’s still a chance for the people to “find America once again.”

Fascism doesn’t change its tune, just its singers.

A 2021 Marvel Trumps Hate ( @marveltrumpshate ) commission, completed on 22-count aida cloth with embroidery floss and watercolors on a 9" diameter bamboo hoop.

[monikahmakes]

May is all about gardening and dipping things in paint. This one is a piece of needle lace dipped in latex interior paint, and I'm extremely into it- the possibilities for making weird organic sculptural forms that integrate fiber into my small sculpture work are very exciting.

[cicada-heart]

“my heart is a stopped geranium”

collage, hand embroidery, gouache, and beads on muslin 🩸