Category: Craft
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Designer Crochets Seafood So Well You Can Almost Taste It
Knitwear designer Kate Jenkins loves to keep busy and push herself to grow and be better every day. So when she realised she was getting to cozy with her career, she started looking for new ways to express her love for wool, textile, and color. “I have always crocheted since being taught as a small…
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These Artistic Maps of Pakistan and India Show The Embroidery Techniques of Each Region
Journalist Saima Mir posted to Twitter this “map of Pakistan showing the embroidery techniques of its regions.” And, sure enough, it led to someone surfacing a corresponding map of Pakistan’s neighbor, India. The underlying message of the maps? It’s to show, as @AlmostLived noted, “how diverse elements come together to make beautiful things.” The map…
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Artist Shows Us How to Make Your Kid a Cardboard Knight in Armor
Don’t throw away your cardboard boxes just yet. Warren King shared this amazing process on Flickr of fashioning a full suit of cardboard armor for his 6-year-old son. With creativity and ingenuity, King created each body part out of smaller cardboard cutout pieces creating arms, legs, a breastplate and a helmet. His 15th-century inspiration required…
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Life-Size Crochet Skeletons That Are So Intricate, The Stomach Even Has Half-Digested Food In It
If you’re an artist, there are so many mediums to have fun with. So when Shanell Papp from Lethbridge, Canada decided to explore the human body she picked a method that excited her just as much as the theme. Crochet. [zombify_post]
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These Teeny Tiny Bonsai Plants Give New Meaning to the Word Miniature
It’s no secret that the Japanese excel at making things smaller, whether it’s automobiles, electronics or food. In fact, Japan’s love of small things can be found in literature dating back over a 1,000 years. When it comes to the land of the rising sun, it’s clear that beauty comes in small packages. So what…
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Artist Creates Hand-Sewn Lace Figures Using Real Pieces of Found Wood
Artist Agnes Herczeg uses lace to create figural works of female forms, capturing figures in moments of contemplation or work. In one piece the subject stands at a loom, appearing to weave herself from the included fibers. All of Herczeg’s works uses all natural materials, incorporating small pieces of wood or other found materials to…
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Japanese Artist Uses Complex Cuts To Form Detailed Paper Sea Creatures, Flowers, and Reptiles
One of the most interesting art forms we’ve seen lately has been perfected by Japanese cut paper artist Riki Fukuda who creates mind-bogglingly detailed designs using simple tools: a cutting mat, blade, and paper. She regularly shares her in-progress and finished works on Twitter, including the pencil sketches that she cuts into for her final…
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Artist Creates Hyper Realistic Cats Hand Felted Cats Out Of Wool
Needle felting has grown in popularity in leaps and bounds in recent years, with many textile artists using wool create amazing sculpted creations. Japanese artist Wakuneco has taken the craft to another level, by creating hyper-realistic hand-felted cat faces. The artist uses wool of various different colors and creates 3D portraits of cats using needle…
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Artist Create Delicate Depictions of Quiet Moments Using Lace
Ágnes Herczeg is a Hungarian artist who creates delicate depictions of quiet moments. Using colorful lace and found wood, each small scene floats in mid-air and is attached to a piece of wood. Whereas in previous work, Herczeg used unusually shaped wood fragments as part of the figural elements of the scenes, in her more…
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A Huge Hand-Crocheted Tree Gives Visitors to Zurich’s Train Station a Full Sensory Experience
Renowned Brazilian artist Ernesto Neto has unveiled GaiaMotherTree, a monumental installation that aims to bring the spirit of the Amazonian rainforest inside Zurich’s Central Station. Organized by the Fondation Beyeler, the project sees a twenty-meter high sculpture extending right up to the ceiling of the station concourse. its see-through structure is made of brightly colored…