This month’s member spotlight is Leslie Horan Simon. Leslie’s efforts to protect rare and endangered sheep breeds inspires her work and her focus on using carefully sourced wools. Leslie is based in New York City. My medium is wool. Not just any wool but that which comes from rare and endangered breeds of sheep. My …
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Love textile travel? Connect to your inner adventurer via this story about the applique-driven journeys of artist Nell Sonnemann. Patricia Malarcher, esteemed former Surface Design Journal editor, has spent the last several years editing Sonnemann’s far-flung inquiry into varieties of applique. Check out the set of 12 travel journals she created to document a process – and a quirky and exceptional spirit….
Read More »Textiles serve as a lens through which to sample Africa’s diversity in this latest issue of the Surface Design Journal.
Articles focus on artists engaged in printing, dyeing, batik, weaving, stitching, quiltmaking, graphic arts and applique….