Jodie Ruffle is London based womenswear designer who combines different types of crafts into designs. Her clothes are an engaging contrast of easy going oversized cuts with soft intricate embroideries and embellishments; all made by Jodie herself. A few weeks we met up in Palm Vaults to discuss her inspirations, goals and story of how…
Category: Embroidery
The Zealous Creative
Gemma Blackwell is textiles designer who recently graduated from the University of Huddersfield and studied with Jordan Williams Evans. She mixes a range of materials and embroidery skills to challenge tradition and create new and ambiguous textures. How did you get into textiles? I’ve always been making stuff since I was little. I used to…
Famous Friends Embroidery
Patricia Larocque is an embroiderer living in Lyon, France originally from Vancouver. A few Sundays ago we had a nice and easy conversation about her vibrant work, where she shops for materials and her lack of FOMO. How did you get into embroidery? I’ve always been into craftwork and used to knit and bead loom,…
Gold Finger
Jordan Williams Evans recently graduated in Textiles with Surface Design at the University of Huddersfield. His mixture of embroideries and self made felt fabric is the perfect combination of luxury and craft. You recently told me that you’re completing a final project. What and where did you study? I have just come to the end of…
Destiny City Threads
Mo Milligan creates embroidery designs that are a mixture of nature, quirky statements and one liners. Her hoop art is hand made in Tacoma, Washington. How did you get into embroidery? I grew up watching my Dad spend a lot of his spare time illustrating science-fiction comic book art. I’d accompany him on trips to…
Slow and Steady Wins The Race
We found Dutch textiles designer Alexandra Drenth’s work while looking for pictures to Instagram on Pinterest. She was kind enough to share her detailed embroidery with us. How did you get into textiles? In 2007 I got into textiles through a large embroidery project I did with photography and painting. I became fascinated with the…
Rackets by Fiancé Knowles
Danielle Clough aka Fiancé Knowles is an embroidery and visual artist from Cape Town. Her work is vibrant, uplifting and intriguing. How did you get into embroidery? My mum taught me how to sew and I was really keen on being a fashion designer while studying . I made really horrible clothes, like jackets out of curtains….
Nature Inspired Embroidery
‘Annie Lang is a contemporary embroidery designer inspired by nature, adventure and Northern Michigan.’ How did you get into textiles? I feel like I really just fell into it. I’ve always been a creative person and constantly finding new ways to work with my hands. I went to college and graduated with a degree in…
How I Fell in Love With Textiles
Wiktoria Nowak is a freelance textile designer from Poland, Łódź. How did you get into textiles? When I was in high school I wanted to study animation at a film school in Łódź but I didn’t pass the exams. I was really determined to stay in the city and study something else. A year later…
Exploring World Textiles
“TIGRA TIGRA is a design studio and shop which re-contextualizes art & design made in developing parts of the world. TIGRA TIGRA work with independent craftspeople and women’s cooperatives in South Africa, eastern Namibia and Bosnia. Each piece is focused on the merger of ancient tradition, modern interpretation and experimental design.” How did the idea of TIGRA…
Mary Martin Embroidery
“Mary Martin is a contemporary hand embroiderer who works out of her studio in Sharpstown, Houston, Texas USA. She has more than 40 years experience with embroidery, needlework, sewing, crocheting and crafting. Her embroidery has been exhibited internationally and is in private collections worldwide. She specialises in goldwork and blackwork embroidery, and has her own…
Embroidery by Ellie
Ellie MacDonald is an embroidery designer from Brighton How did you get into embroidery? I specifically started working with embroidery when I met Jenny King about 10 years ago. Jenny specialises in the freehand ‘Irish’ Singer, this kind of embroidery really appealed to me because of the speed and flexibility of the machine. What other…