Textiles samples

Smocking is a decoration on a garment created by gathering a section of the material into tight pleats and holding them together with parallel stitches in an ornamental pattern. Please contact us for any of your smocking needs in New York City!

Finally finished my City and Guilds Level 2 and was fortunate enough to get a distinction with my final project being my large coral reef pi...

I have recently discovered the British expression 'her face is a map of the world' here . To me it means that a face takes on itsel...

Sep 3, 2012 - We are delighted to present a workshop with the renowned German feltmaker Dagmar Binder. Dagmar has given workshops and exhibited widely throughout Europe and North and South America. As well as the two day workshop with us Dagmar is also giving an illustrated talk about her work on Sunday 1st July in the Palatine Room…

this is a selection of my needlefelted samples, made before i created the exhbition piece i blogged about earlier, called forbidden fruit this sample (1 of 4) ended up being framed i called it rain…

Finally finished my City and Guilds Level 2 and was fortunate enough to get a distinction with my final project being my large coral reef picture. It turned out to be more purple than I imagined with more of the mount showing than I wanted but I like purple so no harm done. There are many techniques used including heating lots of chiffon, Tyvek, Lutradur and 3D medium with a heat gun as well as hand stitching and beading. I have extended this work into different colours mounted on a canvas.

My assemblages

textile artist photography and mixed media - Carolyn Saxby Textile Art St Ives Cornwall