Xenia Rybina is a embroidery designer originally from Russia currently living in Paris. How did you get into embroidery? Two of my passions combined together, and that was the outcome. When I was a child, I was always sewing something, learned crochet and made stuffed toys out of old clothes. In university I graduated as…
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Prints on Prints
I met Ola through our mutual friend Lynette in 2014 when I moved to Paris to teach English. I knew we’d have a lot in common before I even met her; born in London to Nigerian parents, living in Paris and loves textiles just like me. Two years later and I count her as a…
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,…