Corinne Young, UK textile artist known for her three-dimensional embroidered artworks inspired by flowers, insects and historical artefacts #Womensart#EmbroideryWeek
any Haeckel lovers here? you’ll be fascinated by what you can find in the Biodiversity Heritage Library. a truly precious place
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Button of the day
From the Victoria and Albert Museum @V_and_A
Button with micro-mosaic image of a butterfly in a purple porphyry frame, Italian, early 19th century.
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An art installation at the Stedelijk Museum Schiedam in the Netherlands, showing a raw birch log next to a hand-knitted textile scarf that mimics the texture, form, and color of the tree bark.
INAUGURACIÓN ⭐️ | Los colores de la tierra
Una colaboración entre artistas, antropólogas y más de 30 comunidades textiles de Chiapas y Oaxaca que, mediante tintes naturales, recupera saberes e impulsa nuevas propuestas textiles y artísticas desde el respeto y aprendizaje mutuo.
In 2002, at the age of 91 years, artist Louise Bourgeois created 'Ode a L'Oubli' (Ode to Forgetting), a book of 35 fabric pages made from her own cloth saved from different eras of her life #Womensart
Have you ever seen such pretty ammonites? ✨ 🌀
These specimens have preserved their mother-of-pearl shells, which give them their distinctive shiny look!
The British Pre-Raphaelite painter Marie Spartali Stillman (1844-1927) designed this embroidered tunic and shoes and decorated it with an embroidered floral design, perhaps created for her daughter's marriage in 1905 #womensArt
Button of the day 😍
Beautiful circurlar button of ivory carved in relief in design of flowers and fruit. Made in France. 19th century.
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Gunta Stölzl, Wall hanging "Slit Tapestry Red/Green" 1927, the artist ran the pioneering weaving workshop at the progressive German design school, the Bauhaus #womensart#BauhausWomen
Cada obra nos invita a mirar más allá de lo evidente, a reflexionar sobre la historia y a reconocer el poder de la creatividad como una herramienta para preservar la memoria y dar voz a quienes construyen nuevas formas de expresión.