Textiles In Art | Art In Textiles

Textiles informing art. And, sometimes, art returning the favor.

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@womensart1 We LOVE Thandiwe Muriu! Her book, CAMO, is essential for anyone who seeks out textile-centered art.

BTW, we’re finally migrating our content from this platform to https://t.co/Uswwdsql0J

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Check out this remarkable detail of material and lacework. It’s from a portrait of Madame de Pompadour, shortly before her early death from TB in 1764 (Francois-Hubert Drouais)

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Volker Hermes
“Hidden de Bray” (2022), from “Portrait of a Young Woman” (1667) by Jan de Bray

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‘The Release from Deception' (1754) by Francesco Queirolo

Carved from a single block of stone.

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Uzbek embroidery design which could decorate suzani wall hangings, bedspreads (choshabi or ruidjo) and table-clothes (dastarkhan) #WomensArt

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12 Feb 1608: The #English born Robert Shirley, ambassador for Shah Abbas, leaves #Persia #otd on his second embassy to #Europe for the Shah (Tate)

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February Wash Day, by Dee Nickerson #winter #Caturday #warm #art @dEEN1cKers0n

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PORTRAIT OF MNONJA, Mickalene Thomas, 2010

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Culinary Mould showing a woman at a spinning wheel,
German, 1680-1720

(V&A Museum, London)

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Auckland artists Lissy Robinson-Cole and partner Rudi create dayglo Whakairo and pou using crochet, describing their work as “igniting joy globally"

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Marcellina Oseghale Akpojotor, artist who combines tiny pieces of ankara fabric to create portraits of Nigerian women #WomensArt

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Faith Humphrey Hill, US artist and knitter who creates knitted 'portrait paintings' #WomensArt

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Polish painter Nespoon creates street art with lace patterns #WomensArt

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Here's a fragment of textile panel 'The Hobreaw' ['hobby falcon'] possibly made by Mary Queen of Scots & Elizabeth Talbot, c. 1570-1585

(V&A Museum, London)

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@historyinmemes A crochet tablecloth by Argiris Rallias (2022)

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Amazing neckerchief detail in this marble statue made by French sculptor Louis Philippe Mouchy in 1781.

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See more of Kovtun’s work here…

https://t.co/YKeb0G42iS

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Olga Kovtun
Tree of Life, 2020

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See more of Joo’s awe-inspiring photorealism on her website.

https://t.co/J6ZXNPo4CN

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Parrhasius No. 30 (Pendulous)
2022 16x20
oil on panel
Leeah Joo