Sentences with phrase «found scraps of fabric»

The nonprofit organization Artis funds research trips to Israel for artists and curators, and it was on one of these expeditions that the curator Prem Krishnamurthy was taken with the work of Noa Eshkol — a modern dancer who developed a rigorously mathematical movement notation system and later made dynamic tapestry collages from found scraps of fabric.

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I've been quilting for a very long time and still find it fascinating that a few simple scraps of fabric can make such beautiful objects.

I just cut and sew the size I need and then make a series of button holes around the top and thread it with grosgrain ribbon (which I can usually find «end of spool» discounts at the local cloth store... also the scraps section of the fabric store is a great place to find inexpensive fabric to make the bags).

Cosybag is inspired by vintage fabrics and patterns and incorporates these into her work, «I hate throwing away any leather scraps so that influences my designs with lots of stripes and squares, and I've just finished a range of purses inspired by patchwork blocks» and she does nt find leather as hard to work with as it may seem, ``..

I embellished them with felt, socks, scrap fabric, buttons, and plenty of other little doo - dads, anything I could find.

Use pinecones and twigs you find in your yard, old egg cartons that you were going to toss, a scrap of fabric for the scarf, and other odds and ends you probably have in your craft supplies.

I found a second pine frame on clearance the other day, and a scrap piece of leopard print fabric seemed like the perfect way to fill it.

I pulled out all of my fabric scraps and found a few that would be really pretty... but, to be quite honest, I just didn't feel like sewing.

MATERIALS USED: 1 Black turtleneck (or something similar) 1 pair of tight black pants 1 foot of stretchy fake black leather (found at JoAnn Fabrics) Scissors Fabric glue Small scraps of silver foil fabric (found at JoAnn's) Scraps of cardstock Silver adhesive foil Power - tac or hot glFabric glue Small scraps of silver foil fabric (found at JoAnn's) Scraps of cardstock Silver adhesive foil Power - tac or hot glscraps of silver foil fabric (found at JoAnn's) Scraps of cardstock Silver adhesive foil Power - tac or hot glfabric (found at JoAnn's) Scraps of cardstock Silver adhesive foil Power - tac or hot glScraps of cardstock Silver adhesive foil Power - tac or hot glue gun

Gupta dwells on the secret inner lives of worn - out vessels, discarded by their users for their state of disrepair, by physically compressing each found object into a sculptural grid interweaved with vibrant scraps of found fabric.

Scraps of fabric, broken dishes, old jewelry, lost and found objects: these are the materials that work their way into Graven's art.

Typical «found objects» include natural materials like sand (see Sand Art), earth, stones, shells, curiously shaped pieces of wood, a human skull; or man - made items such as newspaper cuttings, photographs, pieces of glass, fragments of scrap metal, pieces of textile fabric, an unmade bed, a bicycle handlebars, and so on.

On the opposite wall is a large - scale painting by Sterling Ruby — another artist with an almost mythological persona — incorporating scraps of found fabric, and perched on a plinth, under a museum - style vitrine is a work by Cyprien Gaillard called Untitled (Tooth), 2013: literally one tooth from the giant maw of a mechanical digger, transformed by this transposition into a somehow hieratic little figure.

Having trouble finding clothing that would fit her in the Elsewhere Collection, Denton created a line of plush, fat jewelry using fabric scraps from her stacking sculpture.

Then there are the myopic little nitpickers, people who scurry about seeking little bits of garbage in the fabric of science (and of course, there are such flaws everywhere), and when they find some scrap of rot, they squeak triumphantly and hold it high and declare that the science everywhere is similarly corrupt.

The next big goal for Pringle and Lewis is to find a better use for all of the fabric scraps that are created in the process of upcycling the garments.

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The colors were woven through everything from our cute little polka dot paper plates I found at Target, to our delicious packets of Tazo tea and fun fruity cold drinks to our springy TJ Maxx tablecloths, loads of fabric scraps for our craft making spring flower pins, and the absolutely gorgeous tulips and flowers we had in mason jars throughout the room.

I recently traveled to France and found 1-1/2 yards of gorgeous fabric in a scrap bin that I had made into pillows for my living room sofa, using fringe found on fabric.com.

I found a second pine frame on clearance the other day, and a scrap piece of leopard print fabric seemed like the perfect way to fill it.