Petra Veerman-van de Vijver

She is a mom of 2 teenagers and at this moment she lives in Mexico City. She says “ I fell in love with the vibrant colors of this beautiful land especially the textiles” about where she lives right now. She use the exclusive handmade fabrics to give ordinary items an Unique look. She has been doing this for the last 3 years and  very happy that she can share her love for these beautiful fabrics and amazing craft can share with the world through her webstore. She works closely with the local artisan people to achieve the highest quality. 

She uses  exclusive handmade fabrics to give ordinary items an Unique look. For example, the Beautiful Otomi fabric.This fabric is very special. It is hand embroidered by the Otomi people from Hidalgo, Mexico. The pieces are also often called Tenangos. They use 100% natural cotton and draw the design on it.After that they embroider with natural colored cotton their traditional designs of animals and flowers in vibrant colors. It is a time consuming process. A piece of 2 x 2 meter will take them 6-9 months to finish.

After that she uses  this unique fabric to change ordinary home decor items into Unique pieces.

Petra Veerman-van de Vijver

Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/UniqueWorldDesign

Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/uniqueworlddesigns/

Web site:https://uniquemexicandesign.com/

Ditte Sorensen

Ditte Sorensen is Denmark based textile artist.Ditte sews pictures on a sewing machine and combines ancient craft traditions with new media. All original images are based on either fabric, or sewn paper collages, where many works contain hidden surprises, such as auditory impressions as QR codes with “spoken words” and other quirky stories.

In the Madstich collection you can also find a series of artworks, that are anything but fairytales. They are about vanity and the fear of dying. The result is three portraits, that are sewn on water-soluble fabric. After sewing the fabric is washed away, the threads are dried and placed in a transparent frame where they are pressed. The intention is to portray the fact that we will all disappear one day. Every portrait has an auditive impression – a QR-code hidden in an earring. The codes can be scanned with a mobile phone and play a conversation about the fear of dying and a poem with the title “Når jeg bliver gammel” (when I get old). The three portraits are named “Disappear”.

“I sew my artworks, freehand embroidery, on my old Bernina sewing machine. My working methods and approach are constantly experimenting. I explore and test the limits, both in my visual expression, as well as in my techniques and my use of methods. I see it a bit like my playground. It also drives me to constantly challenge myself and try something new and often many things happen between the first idea to the finished work. The genesis of my works have great relationship with the story I would like to convey. It is often with a love for the odd angles or in some way socially relevant”, Ditte Sørensen explains.

Here you can see a few of Madstitch (Ditte Sorensen)  artworks, but visit the artisan profile to see the full collection: http://www.madstitch.com/
And he Facebook link : http://bit.ly/2l58TtZ
https://www.facebook.com/madstitch.sewnart/?hc_ref=PAGES_TIMELINE

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Stephanie Kelly Clark

Stephanie K. Clark was born in Portland, Oregon.  Her family later moved to a farm in the small town of Urbana, Missouri where she grew up. Stephanie has always had a passion for art and being creative in whatever life gives her.  She has always been supported by great family and friends throughout all her creative endeavours.  Even though she’s loved cultivating her hand at art during her high-school years, her passion for creating art really blossomed while attending Dixie State College in southern Utah 2006. 

Stephanie then decided to take her art education further, studying her undergrad in Painting and Drawing at the University of Utah; where she graduated Fall of 2011.  In Stephanie’s experience at the University of Utah, she had learned by many of her instructors in whom feels has really pushed her to grow creatively and conceptually in her work.  Stephanie had explored many mediums and ways of creating art.  She then discovered her love for working with embroidery and thread drawings (drawing with her sewing machine).  Most of Stephanie’s work consists of fiber art, mixing paint and thread/embroidery. 

 Stephanie is currently living in Salt Lake City, Utah with her dearest husband/Sculptor Artist Robin Clark and her two children. Stephanie has shown in many galleries throughout the country and completed an art residency at the Kimball Art Center in Park City, Utah 2013. She spends most of her time being a mommy, a wife, and an artist; sewing, painting, embroidering and pursuing any avenue to exploring the creative process.

All images copy right by Stephanie K. Clark

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Maximo Laura 

Maximo Laura (Ayacucho, Peru), is an award winning tapestry weaver internationally recognized as one of South America´s pre-eminent and most unique textile artists. He is a consultant, designer and lecturer on art and contemporary Andean textile design. His work is the integration and synthesis of ancestral weaving techniques, symbols, memories, myths and rituals with contemporary art.

Laura is the fifth generation of weavers that learned his craft as a child at the side of his father while growing up in Ayacucho; he learned his art by never silencing the internal self-exploration or the external exploration of the world, including a lifelong study of art history and literature beyond the borders of Peru.

While he now lives and works in Lima, his work is deeply imbued with the legends and storytelling of his Peruvian heritage and with his own very compelling life experiences. Laura draws from many sources of inspiration, such as Chavin culture which is expressive and totemic; Paracas which is colorful and strong; Nazca and Huari for their geometric forms; and Chancay for its sobriety and linear spirit.

Since his first exhibition at the Cultural Center of Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1985, work of Maximo Laura has been in over 140 exhibitions in more than 29 countries (China, USA, France, Italy, Poland, Belgium, Australia, Cuba, Argentina, among others), with solo exhibitions at the Musée de Bibracte (France), the Smithsonian´s National Museum of the American Indian (USA), the Textile Museum (USA), the Museum of the Americas (Costa Rica), the Museum of Decorative Arts and Design (Latvia), the Craft Museum of Finland, among others.

                                      

All images copy right by Maximo Laura 

Website: http://maximolaura.com/
Online Shop: http://maximolaura.com/shop
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/maximolaura