Miyuki Sakai

Miyuki Sakai's portfolio-Illustrations with a sewing machine using only thread.Wonderful sewn illustrations by Miyuki Sakai of various elements in the kitchen, dining room, table and many more. With endless patience and skill, Miyuki creates these illustration full of beautifully detailed textures and colors. Miyuki Sakai lives is an illustrator working with the sewing machine as her medium. She grew up in Osaka, Japan and is currently based in San Francisco.

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Natalia Margulis

National and International exhibited fiber artist Natalia Margulis was born in Russia and graduated from Saint Petersburg University. Since 1993 she worked in U.S.A. as full time artist. Participating in the most prestigious art and craft shows, she has gained recognition and won numerous top awards in contests. Her works were published in the books and magazines, and she taught embroidery classes.

Masterful command over a needle allows Russian born Natalia Margulis to sketch with thread in a three dimensional manner that pulls the viewer into the image like a magnet.Using both machine and hand embroidery to create the imagery, Margulis first lays down a background of stitches, strips of hand dyed fabrics and ribbons. 

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Leisa Rich

Leisa Rich is a sculptor and artist who employs fiber, surface design, hand and machine stitching, human detritus and a variety of other unusual techniques and materials in her 2D and 3D constructions and Installations. She is an art educator with 35 years experience teaching all levels, and ages from 3 year old through college, in Fibers, Sewing, Painting/Drawing, Book Making, Printmaking, Clay, Resin/Molds, Encaustic and more. She holds Master of Fine Arts, Bachelor of Fine Arts, and Bachelor of Education in Art degrees. Leisa used to teach  at Callanwolde Fine Arts Center  for many years.  Her previous experience includes international fashion, set design projects for television and theatre, a successful wearable art business, Director of Art and much more.

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See more of her work at:
http://monaleisa.posterous.com
http://www.monaleisa.com

Tara Badcock

Tara Badcock is a Tasmanian (Australian) Textile Artist whose work draws a thread between traditional hand embroidery & stitching techniques, free form machine embroidery, collage and sculpture. After studying for an Honours degree in Fine Art at the University of Tasmania, Tara spent several years in Paris & Europe undertaking Artists’ Residencies (featuring a stint collaborating on a suite at The Ice Hotel in the North of Sweden), and finding her feet in the world of stitch.

What she says about herself:" I studied Graphic Design (for the creative job prospects), and Lithography (on fabric – for my artist’s heart’s desire), at University in Hobart, a beautiful converted jam factory building on the wharf with views of mountain and sea. These were not considered true fine art subjects by the sculpture and painting departments within the Art School so I never really felt that I was able to call myself a ‘real’ artist, despite having my work shown in exhibitions within Australia and also internationally even when I was still studying, and working at the usual art-student-supplementing type jobs as a waitress and house cleaner."

All images courtesy of Tara Badcock

                Find out more about Tara on her blog:http://bit.ly/1t70aEL

              or take a look at her Flickr: http://bit.ly/1lb96bl