Bahar Baytekin is an embroidery maker from Ankara in Turkey. She creates colourful and intricate stitches on clothing, accessories and photos. How did you get into embroidery? I started in 2014 and learned myself watching YouTube videos. Do you have a background in design? I studied philosophy at university but have always been interested in…
Category: Embroidery
Thread & Paint
Katy Biele is a mixed media artist who can’t sit still! She was born in the south of Chile and began playing with colours at a young age. She found herself on an artistic path that lead to design school in Santiago. During a four year stint of travelling and living in different countries she…
Mrs Dalloway Embroidery
Melissa Duran is a graphic designer and embroidery artist from Quito – Ecuador. She trained at the renowned Ecole Lesage in Paris for one year. How did you get into embroidery? I’ve always been a person who enjoys handicrafts, I’ve done different kind of crafts throughout my life. My interest in embroidery began when I…
Namaste Embroidery
Jessica Long is a hand embroidery artist currently living near Phoenix, Arizona. How did you get into embroidery? After the birth of my son in 2014 I picked up hand embroidery as a way to relax and feed my creative spirit while on maternity leave. I was inspired by a friend who posted her work…
Constant Lines Capturing Poses
Becca Nicolaides is an illustrator working in pen and thread. She lives in Uxbridge (Greater London) with her husband and two year old son. How did you get into embroidery? I’m self taught and spent a lot of my childhood working on the basic cross stitch kits you can get for kids. I watched my nan sew a…
Lemon Pepper Studio
Lemon Pepper Studio is in Wiltshire where embroidery artist Pippa Haynes creates pieces inspired by nature, flowers and mushrooms. Born from a love of nature and inspired by a three month working holiday on a farm in California. Lemon Pepper Studio evolved to create artistic representations of the small, everyday micro-habitats that surround us. How…
Handmade by Jen
How did you get into embroidery? I randomly found a pattern on Etsy and decided to give it a try. I was hooked almost immediately. Do you have a background in design? Nope! I was raised in a creative household and was sewing and cross stitching at a young age, but I went to school for…
Thread Honey
Jennifer Cardenas Riggs is a graphic designer and textile artist known on Instagram as @Threadhoney. She began stitching in 2014, blending her knowledge in visual arts with a modern aesthetic to create embroidery that speaks to the millennial generation. How did you get into embroidery? My grandma taught me how to embroider when I was…
Fulfil That Desire
Negine Jasmine is a film photographer and embroiderer currently living in Washington D.C. Her heritage is Afghani. I came across her work via Instagram and wanted to know if or how her ethnicity inspires her embroidery. How and why did you get into embroidery? When I was seventeen, I was into the Riot Grrrl movement and had a brief punk phase. I used to attend punk shows in weird basements and was around all of these…
Paper to Textiles
Ida Marie Kold is a Danish mixed media artist specialising in embroidery, knitwear and print. How did you get into embroidery and knitting? It’s been a smooth transition from paper to textiles, fueled by curiosity and desire to learn and evolve. My grandma taught me to knit when I was little, but I didn’t…
Pink Pal
Textiles artist Sammy Dudley’s practice consists mainly of hand embroidered pieces depicting bodies and faces, and more recently contemporary representations of classical paintings throughout art history taking selfies. She grew up on the Isle of Wight and now lives in London. How did you get into embroidery? While studying for my Fine Art degree, I started…
Rebirth of A Community
IBABA RWANDA is the project of two French sisters with a shared passion for Rwanda, Veronique and Pascale and their cousin Solange, who joined them recently. In 2012, they re-opened an embroidery workshop in Rutongo, a village in Rwanda. The exceptionally skilled embroideries of this workshop had tragically stopped all activities following the genocide of…