SilkMari

http://www.SilkMari.etsy.com/

I have been a Certified Artisan  by the Department of Tourism and  the ""Department of Culture"" of  Puerto Rico for more than 20 years.

I am fortunate to be part of the Artisan Market in ""La Placita Darsena"" as it is called,  located off  Pier 1, in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico, USA.  I enjoy meeting travelers from all over the world who come to explore the Tropical Island of Puerto Rico.

Although I paint on burlap with acrylic paint, I consider myself a Silk Artist because my love is dyeing and painting on silk.

Each of my scarves is individually hand dyed and hand painted making them a ... one-of-a-kind ... by virtue of the process used. Batik, Tie-dye and Silk Painting are some of the techniques I love to explore and use. 

Location:  Trujillo Alto, Puerto Rico

Online shop:   SilkMari

Blog:  SilkMari

Other social media:  Twitter

Membership: Silk Painting Gallery Network 

Languages spoken:  English, Spanish

 Paintings on Silk by SilkMari

Tags:  Silk Artist,  fiber artist, artisan, hand dyed, hand painted,  silk,  silk scarves, tie dye, batik,  silk painting, wearable art

Terri Pike

http://www.blindsquirrel.etsy.com

I'm a self taught felter, with an emphasis on nuno felting.  I have taught friends how to felt, and started a tutorial website for learning the basics.  I did it because I enjoy it so immensely and I want people to have as much fun as I'm having! 

When I first tried finding info on nuno felting online, I had little luck, so my videos are for those ambitious people out there who want to teach themselves.  It is a fairly new way of felting so I can really stretch the limits of my imagination on what can be accomplished.  Not everything has been done to death with nuno felting, so inventing new looks is so satisfying because it hasn't been seen before.   I try at least one experimental thing with each piece I create.   I look at other art for color combinations, and ways of really trying to TRANSLATE it into my medium.   I once did a wet felted wall hanging of a painting of a photograph!

I take a lot of time and plan each piece carefully because the best part is having it turn out in an unexpected way.

A little background on Nuno Felting:

Nuno means “fabric” in Japanese (this is not a Japanese technique, it was invented by an American woman named Polly Sterling) so adding any fabric to a wet felting piece is considered nuno felting.

The fabric is laid out and a layer of loose wool is arranged on top and/or bottom.   It is then rolled up in a plastic bundle and rolled on a table for roughly an hour or two.  The wool literally migrates directly through the fabric during this time.  Once it has really worked its way through, it is then shrunk (as wool is wont to do) and it takes the fabric along with it creating lovely wrinkles and texture.  Then it is hand rubbed in hot soapy water.  Lastly it is thrown against a hard surface many times, then rinsed and dried.  After drying over night, the last 3 steps are repeated.

My fabric of choice is 100%  silk chiffon  and my wool of  choice is Merino. Since my pieces are usually touching the neck, I want to make sure it feels soft and luxurious and never itchy.  Other wools would not achieve such comfortable results.  The wool is the finest wool available (Merino) and in the lowest micron count for the softest feel.  I also use other materials such as silk roving, tencel, cottswold wool, mohair yarn, wool yarn, and novelty yarn, but minimally, and for embellishment.

Artist's statement:  I like to fabricate a thing that didn’t exist before I thought of it.  I prefer to use the crudest, most basic raw materials possible, so that I actually construct it.  I like my designs to resemble the chaos of nature.  How clouds form and make random patterns, and rocks and streams and fossils and snow.  Those patterns hold the most interest for my eyes, but my personality type is always pulling me towards order and structure.  Creating a piece that makes visual sense and has the fluidity of freeform is my everlasting challenge.


Location: Orlando, Florida, USA
Online shop: blindsquirrel
Blog:  feltinglessons
Languages spoken:  English

Nuno felted scarf by Terri Pike







First video in a series on Terri Pike's Felting Instructions:

Tags:  felting, felt, felted, wool, silk, nuno, laminated,scarves, scarf, shawl

Ariane Mariane

www.arianemariane.com

Independent textile artiste Ariane Mariane creates “fiber art to wear” in her French atelier near Paris. She makes outstanding and eco-friendly garments and accessories of high quality.

Each item is handmade mostly by nuno felting. Only the smoothest merino wool, finest fabrics (silk, linen, and cotton) and best fibers are employed.

Her joyful line of unique and one of a kind pieces are meant to dress unique, special and individual women - women for whom fashion is an art and a statement.


Artist's statement:  Ariane Mariane’s “fiber art to wear” has a graphic spirit. Her garments and accessories are a support for expressing her “collage inspired” art. To underline the pictorial approach she works with beautiful but easy / sober silhouettes which can be adapted in different ways. Versatile and reversible, her garments invite playfulness and reconcile us to the fun fashion should be.

By draping her garments around the body, two dimensional becomes three dimensional - from a picture to a sculpture. We are invited to complete the art work by adding our unique body shape and our imagination. It’s the wearer who gives the final touch to the creation by draping it and by choosing how to assemble the piece with other clothing.  

Ariane Mariane: “With my eco-friendly garments and accessories I want to transmit happiness and playfulness. Fashion for me should be art, fashion should be fun and fashion should make this life a bit brighter!”

In Ariane Mariane’s approach fashion is a statement and completely timeless.


Location:  Paris, France
Online shop:  arianemariane
Blog:  arianemariane
Memberships:
   feutrearttextile
   handmade-europe
Languages spoken:  French, German, English

 Nuno-felted fashions by Ariane Mariane

Performance Mode Danse - 

16ème Carrefour Européen du Patchwo

Uploaded by INITIATIVESEVENEMENTS. - Independent web videos.

Tags:  art-to-wear, unique, versatile, poetic, statement, fashion, garments, playful, joyful, colored, nuno felt

Marble-T Design, LLC /// Linda Moran

 

http://www.marbledfab.com

Marble-T Design, LLC is a small partnership of husband-and-wife marbling team Dean and Linda Moran. Hubby Dean started marbling after a three-month search for supplies, just so Linda could have some new fabric for a quilt. 

They marble all kinds of fabrics, from cotton to silk, from linen to polyblends. They've been marbling for nearly 20 years and consider themselves good at what they do, but not nearly to the level of the Turkish masters of the art. Dean marbles and sells the fabric, while Linda gets to keep the really great stuff and quilts, making unusual fiber art that has been juried into shows around the country. Lately they have branched into designing new fabrics using marbled patterns as the basis, as well as creating Digital Marbling (TN).

Mission:  To study and learn the ancient art of marbling; to help others learn marbling by being free with help and advice, unlike the guilds of the Middle Ages; to continue to improve the creation of unique pieces of fiber art; to celebrate the planet with abstract representations of the earth.

Location:  Tucson, Arizona, USA

Online shops:

   Etsy
   Cafe Press
   Zazzle
   eBay

Blog:  Marbled Musings  
Other social media:
   Twitter
   LinkedIn 

Memberships:  

   Tucson Arts and Crafts Organization
   International Marblers Society
Languages spoken:  English

"Gaia 2: Beginnings", Art Quilt by Linda Moran

Quilted Marbled Satins

Tags: marbled fabrics, fiber art, digital marbling, art quilt, wall hangings, textiles, marbling, fabric marbling