I own LFN Textiles, designing ribbon, custom fabrics, and household textiles for private and corporate clients.
Artist Statement: My work brings art, craft, and design together as different facets of the same object. I make and design carefully considered textiles which are intended to refine a space in a full and comforting way: wall hangings, upholstery, domestic textiles, and window coverings.
My subject matter relates to a sense of place, often domestic in nature, but I have covered themes of architecture; domestic and historic gardens (an English kitchen garden; Jefferson’s vegetable garden at Monticello); fruit and vegetables; collected objects. Often my garden work maps out protected, quasi-natural places in suites of tapestries, wherein each piece would show a different element or view, layering experience of that place.
Primarily I make hand-woven brocaded tapestries, which are one of a kind, rather fragile works of art. I also design specialty jacquard-woven ribbons. The subject matter is often similar to the tapestries: gardening, cooking and domestic life are all of interest. Both ribbons and tapestries are ornate and elaborate woven textiles, whose only function is to provide decoration, richness, and a sense of delight.
Bee Swarm by Laura Foster Nicholson
LFN Textiles, Blue
Location: New Harmony, Indiana, USA
Online stores: www.lfntextiles.com http://lfntextiles.etsy.com http://labyrinthtextiles.etsy.com
Brick and mortar presence: studio in New Harmony, by appointment
Blogs: LFN Textiles, Laura Foster Nicholson
Memberships: Surface Design Association
Languages spoken: English, some Spanish, little French
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Tags: ribbons, tapestry, jacquard, weaving, textile design, textile art, brocade, hand weaver, woven, wall hanging
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“Drive a nail home and clinch it so faithfully that you can wake up in the night and think of your work with satisfaction,- a work at which you would not be ashamed to invoke the Muse”
-Henry David Thoreau
In our case, it would be the needle or other fiber tool. Drive it home! And, we all thank you for your words, left here to these good folks. Invoke your Muse!