Wild Textiles: Grown, Foraged, Found

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Alice Fox, artist and author of Natural Processes in Textile Art, works with found, foraged, gathered and grown materials to create fabulous textile pieces that are inspired by, and made from, nature. In this new book, she encourages crafters to be open minded and experimental, using local (and sometimes) unconventional materials, working with the seasons and learning what materials are available at different times of year to ground artists in natural cycles and integrate creative activity with a strong sense of place and character. All our fabric is printed by hand using patterns designed and cut by us. We want our fabrics to bring a sense of peace & harmony as well as movement and colour into your home. Establishing her allotment garden as a source of materials for her work has provided a space where Alice can experiment, exploring the potential of what grows there, planted and wild, as well as other materials found on the plot. Materials are produced, gathered and processed seasonally and are hard-won: There may only be a small batch of each type of usable material each year. As a result, each bundle of dandelion stems, bramble fibre or hand processed flax is enormously precious by its scarcity and the meaning attached to it through its sourcing and hand-processing. At Sarah Burns Patterns we believe in using natural processes that are kind to the environment and reflect the beauty of nature and the world around us. Sustainability is at the heart of Alice’s practice. The desire to take an ethical approach has driven a shift from using conventional art and textile materials into exploring found objects, gathered materials and natural processes. The work that Alice makes is process led. She gathers the materials that are available to her, testing, sampling and exploring them to find possibilities using her textiles-based skill set and techniques borrowed from soft basketry. Alice makes sculptural works. Additionally, she brings different materials together to form tactile surfaces and structures.

Wild Textile The Wild Textile

Wild Textiles will give you a new set of eyes through which anything can be transformed into your next textile project’ If you can’t make it over to West Sussex, we’ll be at the Artists & Makers Fair in Lewes on the 30th & 31st November Alice Fox is an embroiderer and textile artist who has a strong interest in the natural world. In 2012 she was artist-in-residence at Spurn Point National NatureReserve in East Yorkshire, an experience that has informed much of her recent work. She lives in Shipley, West Yorkshire. As we expect to be busy please RSVP to [email protected] and we will happily send you timings & directions.If you would like to take a more sustainable approach in your textile work, this beautiful book offers plenty of inspiration and advice’

Wild Textiles - Batsford Books

Find the hottest teen books, connect with your favorite YA authors and meet new friends who share your reading interests! Textile artist Alice Fox shows how to work with found, foraged, gathered and grown materials to create fabulous textile pieces that are inspired by, and made from, nature. She encourages crafters to be open minded and experimental, using local (and sometimes) unconventional materials, working with the seasons and learning what materials are available at different times of year to ground artists in natural cycles and integrate creative activity with a strong sense of place and character. Advice on how to work with foraged, gathered and grown materials to create fabulous textile art pieces. You’ll be amazed by the possibilities!’