The Fiber Arts have a wealthy heritage of greater than 10,000 years and a practice that spans cultures and continents. Traditionally, fiber is taken from plants or animals , for example cotton from cotton seed pods, linen from flax stems, wool from sheep hair, or silk from the spun cocoons of silkworms. While Trosclair does work with … Read more
The starting of 2014 was extremely busy for us; it included 4 quilt show vendor booths in Florida, Georgia and North Carolina, and a move to a new and smaller home. Not only do Sauder Village Members receive discounts on class charges, but as a Member you also gain limitless admission to the Historic Village … Read more
The Arts Center Exhibition Committee seeks proposals for the 2019 Main Gallery exhibition program. Life goes on, and I am glad that after again we’ve a fantastic magazine that strives to encourage and join the fiber art and textile community. In the Seventies, needlework was reclaimed by the Feminist Movement This began the reintroduction of textiles … Read more
Sam left TFA and moved to Toronto within the spring, but she’s nonetheless my bestie and we chat on a regular basis. Fiber Art Now is both a TAFA Member and Sponsor and we thank them for their help! Based on Wen’s e-book- with CT Publishing- ‘Digital Fiber Art and Mixed Media Masterpieces’. Sarah Anderson’s … Read more
Registration for normal classes is open and there are lots of nice courses still accessible. Trosclair earned an MFA from the Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis, a BFA from Loyola University New Orleans, and has completed residencies at many alternative studios throughout the nation. The amazing … Read more
Our applications are designed to foster this special work in basketry, beadwork, clothes design, crochet, embroidery, felting, knitting, lacework, needlework, paper, quilting, rugs, sewing, spinning, surface design, and weaving. Here’s a quilt I’ve been engaged on this week which is a sample for the Scrappy Batiks Brick Quilt class I’m instructing at the Dragonfly Quilt … Read more
You see, I had spent several years developing the technique I name Watercolor Felt”. I also studied with Jorie Johnson (jewelry and small equipment), Loyce Ericson (spiral scarf), India Flint (eco printing), Tash Wesp (vest) and Sharon Mansfield (no roll felting in the dryer), but I actually have no completed products from these courses to … Read more
TAFA: The Textile and Fiber Art List TAFAList, a world business group of handmade textiles and fiber artwork. During the final day of the Material Measurement – Magnitude, Meaning & Makers” art exhibition, delight in a particular Small Business Saturday Fiber Arts Market event supporting local artists and producers promoting fiber to finished products at … Read more
