Sentences with phrase «sewn fabric works»

In a recent series of hand - sewn fabric works that debuted at the Untitled art fair in Miami in December, felt silhouettes inspired by photographs of police violence during the 2012 national agrarian strike in Colombia mingle with images of the Cathara women, similarly brought to their knees.

Not exact matches

Nick and Jill moved into a cottage in the redwood forest near Pescadero, where Nick set about working 16 - hour days at the computer and the sewing machine, testing new fabrics for the next - generation product, designing marketing materials, writing patent applications, and starting to build up a network of retailers.

We work with plastics, fabrics and sewing, foam, electronics, and metals.

To borrow Nikolai Leskov's vivid expression, they are like «the patchwork quilts of city women from Orel,» sewn up from scraps of fabrics a seamstress once worked with.

A few suitcases for fabric, and a sewing box for notions also get tucked away and easily pulled out for working with.

Choose any of our PUL fabrics with confidence for your diaper sewing - Eco-PUL ™ has been worn by thousands of babies and it works.

I wasn't sure exactly how this fabric would work, and given that I have YARDS of it, I was a little lazy in my sewing - basically the trace of a skirt - front and back - and a simple waistband with a rolled hem at the bottom.

At the moment I price my work by calculating the cost of all of the fabrics and materials I use and then adding that to an hourly rate for the time I spend cutting, printing and sewing each garment together.

Luckily, this no sew folded fabric ornament takes almost no time to complete, so you won't mind the extra work.

A shiny leather handbag can look great, but if you really want something dressy get one that is made out of a fabric with jewels sewn in.When looking for something for work, a handbag with a strap might be more practical.

Did you mean to sew RIGHT sides together??? Seems like it would only work to sew wrong sides togeteher IF the two fabrics are the same on both sides.

This blue velvet fabric was so thick, my sewing got a little wonky, but hey, it still works.

Good fabric for dresses but poor quality of work ie) lace not fully sewn on my wedding dress.

I experimented with this process and made the template from scratch, so it needed a bit of tweaking here and there, but I found neoprene to be a really simple fabric to work with, particularly given you don't need to sew any hems, and it was stretchy enough to not have to put in a zip, yay!

From working with sewing patterns to cutting fabric accurately... pinning and stitching seams to creating a neat finish... hemming techniques to adding design details.

I employed a lot more than half an hour:»D but it's probably because I prefered sewing by hand, considering how badly my sewing machine works I used a heavier black fabric and added a waistband.

It's embarassing, but the most difficult thing for me was sewing the zip well: S also because the fabric was a bit difficult to work with.

Methods and techniques of working with fabric, such as dyeing, sewing, batik, tie - dye, appliques, weaving, quilting, block printing, iron - on printing, screenprinting, and direct dye painting.

I find that bike tubes, fabric scraps, sewing supplies, scissors, craft punches, glue, staples, and cardboard are easiest to work with, but feel free to use other materials.

The fifth grade students at Ed Smith School worked with felt and the eighth grade students knit squares and when the pieces were sewn together the fabric covered «yarn splashed» animals.

Methods and techniques of working with fabric, such as dyeing, sewing, batik, tie - dye, appliques, weaving, quilting, block printing, iron - on printing, screenprinting, and direct dye painting.

She works primarily on a sewing machine, but she also uses heat and paint to alter the fabrics.

Born in the early - to mid-20th century with no formal training, their creative spirits compelled them to make eclectic and found - object works steeped in religious, historic and cultural meaning and quilts with family and regional heritage literally sewn through the fabric.

But there are so many layers — there are the projects where she's sewn bags, which refers to the whole notion of women's work and the history of Arabic textiles and fabrics, and the interviews that she did with women in Egypt.

What the works featured in Art / Sewn share is sewing — sewing on woven fabric, paper, felts and skins, as well as the technique of sewing as a means of production, as expression and as the basis of a variety of narratives.

The artist has sewn the sculptures with fabric from border patrol uniforms, and many of the works feature embroidery crafted by immigrant workers that relay their own individual stories of crossing the border.

In his best known works, he paints on fabric then cuts the fabric into strips, often of uneven length, which he sews together to create large wall hangings in jumpy Matissean patterns and colors.

Orly works with vintage, printed fabrics and updates them with personal, feminine imagery using embroidery and other sewing techniques.

Sidival Fila in his first solo exhibition in France, that is on presentation at the Galerrie Jérôme Poggi Gallery presents 10 monochrome, pleated and sewn painting works (black - yellow - ivory) made from fabrics he collects at his workshop at the monastery of San Bonaventura.

One hint: there is often something hidden in the works collected here — for instance, Rowena Dring's clear, comic - like landscape «paintings» turn out to be sewn together out of small pieces of fabric, which, as soon as the viewer looks more closely, dissolve into countless flecks of color.

Various materials — embroidery, acrylic paint, fabric and canvas — are sewn together to become continuous, integral elements of the work.

At the 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair in New York this May, eight of the 17 participating galleries featured artists working with textiles, whether by incorporating them into sculpture, working directly with weaving or sewing, or referring to fabric patterns and forms.

Through tension - based strategies applied on the fabric — whether pulling, rubbing, folding, slashing, ripping, sewing, or warping — they lend their works a distinctive three - dimensionality.

Jacotey's work draws inspiration from the gathering of people together, the expression of emotions in their many and varied interactions and the contexts and details in which these engagements take place — architecture, landscape, or place; picking out wallpaper, furniture, clothes, and zooming in further to detail pattern, patina, texture... Her works — though insistently manual in their making (paintings on plaster and dust sheets, pencil drawings, sewing and fabric)-- make use of perspectives that reference the world of cinema and slo - mo, the photographer's point and shoot, identifying an artist who has come of age in the smartphone world with its prevalent verbs — zoom, scroll, tap, drag, swipe etc..

Korean artist Kimsooja has become an impressive international presence with work that uses fabric and sewing as metaphors for the human experience.

In Ruby's series SOFT WORK (2012), consisting of loose fabric sculptures sewn out of the American flag, he offers a playful means of confronting the pitfalls of overt patriotism.

She repeatedly explored the domestic throughout her career but didn't use fabric or sewing in her work until the 1990s.

In my artwork I am used to working with different media depending on how interested I am: painting, installations, sculptures, prints, ceramics; this, however, has been associated generally with the soft sculpture (sewn and stuffed fabrics), a technique that brings me closer to the craftwork of the popular cultures of the Caribbean, incorporating real chosen objects.»

Her 2008 solo show with Nicelle Beauchene Gallery in New York City, titled «Paintings & Pots,» included a selection of paintings created through a process of sewing together pieces of fabric into various geometric patterns, and also included a series of white ceramic pots inspired by the work of legendary artist, Beatrice Wood.

Titled Phase I and Phase II, the new paint - free works are made from fabric that is woven, then cut into shapes and sewn together.

She subsequently developed a defining body of work characterised by sewn fabrics, incorporating concepts of nomadism, migration, interpersonal relationships and women's role in society.

The planters themselves are about as eco-friendly as you can get, made of discarded milk cartons collected from local businesses and wrapped in fabric pockets sewn out of recycled tents by Emmaus Maisons - Alfort, a rehabilitation association that works with homeless people.

Methods and techniques of working with fabric, such as dyeing, sewing, batik, tie - dye, appliques, weaving, quilting, block printing, iron - on printing, screenprinting, and direct dye painting.

Methods and techniques of working with fabric, such as dyeing, sewing, batik, tie - dye, appliques, weaving, quilting, block printing, iron - on printing, screenprinting, and direct dye painting.

Sewing Station The sewing station's laminate countertop offers plenty of room to work, and features an opening in the back so fabrics can flow freely rather than getting bunched up by the wall.

-- one whole wall would be shelving (fabric etc. storage) and that shelving would have sliding doors with mounted foam boards (covered in white felt or flannel), so they would double as design walls — BIG center table for cutting and larger ironing surface on one side (smart storage underneath it all)- sewing machine cabinet next to it and small ironing place right next to it — enough space for the long - arm (or mid-arm) quilting machine - big desk in one corner — for drawing, sketching, computer work (preferably next to the window with that great view — big inspiration board on one wall — to pin all kinds of stuff!

Unfortunately, I ran out of hem tape and had about a foot of curtain left to hem so I tried fabric glue instead (cause I don't sew) and it didn't work nearly as well.

I spent years collecting fabrics, although in my defense, I loved to sew and worked in a fabric store when I was 16 and again when I was in my 30's.

The one tricky part of this project is working with the extra fabric as you are sewing a circle.

Work with lighter fabrics, and don't be afraid of contacting a professional seamstress to make your slipcovers if you are not so talented working with a sewing machine.