Category: Craft
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Needle Felt Artist Brings Old Brushes Back To Life In A Spectacular Way
Simon Brown – aka The Gentleman Felter – is a needle felt artist from a small village on the Northumbrian coast in the UK surrounded by castles, cats and copious amounts of tea. He finds old, beaten up, heavily used brushes that nobody would look twice at and then brings them back to life with…
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Urban Floral Cross-Stitch Street Installations by Raquel Rodrigo
Raquel Rodrigo is a set designer and artist who brings the macro details of cross-stitch embroidery to urban landscapes on the building facades around Madrid. She prepares her colorful installations beforehand with enlarged cross-stitch techniques using thick string wrapped on wire mesh before each is unrolled and affixed to a surface. Here are some of…
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Artists Collaborate to Create Camouflage Knitted Sweaters
Recently, photographer Joseph Ford collaborated with knitwear designer Nina Dodd to create a photo series of hand-knitted clothing that camouflages the model into their surroundings. The collaboration has produced a fun set of images which captures “storytelling with a side order of off-beat creativity”. Here are our favorites from the series. Make sure you comment…
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Textile Artist Creates Realistic Tree Stumps from Discarded Clothing
Do you have a bunch of old clothes sitting in your closet that you haven't worn for ages? Why not turn them into realistic tree stumps! That's what textile artist Tamara Kostianovsky did in her latest seriest which creates realistic elements from nature out of strips of fabric and discarded clothing. Tamara forms severed tree…
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Artist Makes Baroque Wigs Entirely Out of Paper
Following a similar aesthetic style to the ornamental wigs of the baroque and rococo periods, paper artist Asya Kozina creates ornate headdresses that pay homage to one of the most outrageous luxuries and stylized trends in history. The artist began experimenting with these paper creations in her initial paper, costume series published in 2015. With…
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Beautiful Embroidered Textile Moths and Cicadas by Yumi Okita
These stunning oversized moths and insects by Yumi Okita are constructed with fabric, embroidery thread, fake fur, wire, and feathers. Yum makes each piece by hand, creating faithful interpretations of actual insects like the Oleander Hawk Moth or the Peacock Butterfly. Here are some of our favorites…
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LEGO Tape Lets You Turn Anything Into A Lego Surface!
Imagine being able to build around corners, on curved surfaces, or even onto the sides of that sailing ship you’ve just spent hours building. You forgot to engineer a point of attachment for that sweet dinosaur-smashing cannon? No problem. Snip a length of Nimuno Loops, stick it on the hull, mount your cannon and be on yarr…
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Artist and Hair Stylist Paints Hair After Famous Paintings
Artist are often inspired by the Great Masters when they create their own works. One such artist, hairdresser Ursula Goff, has taken the inspiration into the hair arena by bringing the colour swatches from famous paintings into her client’s hair. She spends many hours ensuring that her color scheme roughly approximates the hues in Van Gogh’s Starry Night or…
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The Loch Ness Monster is Real and Infuses Your Tea
It’s still up for debate as to whether or not the Loch Ness Monster is real or not, but in the world of tea he is alive and well AND infusing your tea just for kicks! The guys over at OTOTO Design came up the these Baby Nessie Tea Infusers, and they may change your tea-time…
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A Dinosaur Egg Candle Hatches Into a Baby Raptor When it Melts
If you’re like us, your first ‘encounter’ with a Raptor was in Stephen Spielberg’s Jurassic Park, with the critters terrorizing the park with their intelligence, speed and thirst to kill anything and everything in their path. Fortunately for us (and unfortunately for the dinosaurs), a Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event occurred which effectively wiped all dinosaurs off the…