Denim surface exploration

I have long admired the beauty and honesty of boro fabrics - the wonderful, much-mended surfaces of late nineteenth and early twentieth century Japanese workwear. Often using indigo dyed cotton, these materials have taken on a life of its own, becoming distorted, fragmented and re-coloured over time through multi-layered patching and hand stitching. Designs are the result of happenstance and necessity, the mending changing what were once utility fabrics into unique records of toil and…

These images record work from a new series entitled "Posts". They are being made for installation at the National Botanic Gardens Wales with a group called Fibre Art Wales. "Posts" Is to consist of garments which have been shibori gathered and then left to grow algae and moss on the exposed areas of fabric. Once opened it is hoped the natural elements will have created shibori patterns on the garments. The garments represent gardeners jackets left on posts whilst the gardener is hard at work…

Have you ever seen anything like this before?!🤯 I recently started learning more about fabric manipulation techniques and here’s one of them - how breathtakingly gorgeous is this texture?!😍 What I...

ALCYONEUM OCEANUS Collection Exploring the relationship between combining unconventional materials such as concrete, resin and recycled plastics with delicate embroidery to create contemporary besp…

Luna was stuck in a fishing net. She was tugging on it as hard as she could but she couldn't get out. (Open rp)

tied in a checkerboard pattern-every other crossover using indigo dyed silk floss

Calik Denim "oxidized" denim look