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Thursday
Jul012010

Handcrafted Sculptural Textiles by Helen Amy Murray

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Helen Amy Murray is a London-based textile designer who sculpts floral designs into wools, suedes, and leathers. Her work was originally inspired by the wood and marble carvings she discovered on a research trip to India. Upon returning to London, she experimented with translating these similar sculptural effects into a new medium - textiles. The intricate patterns found in her work are a fusion of her upbringing in the English countryside with her urban city life: drawing inspiration from nature, the city and its architecture.



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Photo © Helen Amy Murray.

The Chrysanthemum pattern sculpted in white leather.



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Photo © Helen Amy Murray.

The Feathers pattern sculpted in beige leather.



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Photo © Helen Amy Murray.

The Tropical pattern sculpted in ochre leather.



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Photo © Helen Amy Murray.

The Oriental Flower pattern sculpted in sienna leather.



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Photo © Helen Amy Murray.

The Succulent pattern sculpted in brown in leather.



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Photo © Helen Amy Murray.

For those unfamiliar with Helen's work, this is an example of her gorgeous Peony pattern sculpted into the suede upholstery of a Phillimore chair.



Saturday
May012010

Organic Felt Textile Art Installation by Janice Arnold

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Palace Yurt was created as a site specific installation at the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum by Janice Arnold to demonstrate the link between the historical origins of Felt and contemporary Felt Art though the symbolism of the yurt. Home to Turkic-Mongolian tribes for thousands of years, the yurt is a tent-like, collapsible dwelling, covered with felt. Arnold, renowned for her felt textile work, keeps with traditional Mongolian culture by creating a lavishly decorated yurt that is elaborate in its ornamentation and design.



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Photo © Janice Arnold.

The Palace Yurt Installation at the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum.



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Photo © Janice Arnold.

The Palace Yurt Installation at the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum.



source: Janice Arnold

Thursday
Apr012010

High Tech Three Dimensional Textiles by Aleksandra Gaca

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Aleksandra Gaca is a textile designer from the Netherlands whose fascination with three dimensional weave structures has led to the creation of unique acoustical textiles. For inspiration she draws from the structure and repetition found in architecture as well as from more dynamic concepts such as dance, drama and movement. Aleksandra's broad use of materials, from soft mohairs to super strong monofilaments, make her high tech fabrics particularly qualified for wall covering, partitions or screens within architectural spaces.



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Photo © Aleksandra Gaca.

Meteor XL from the Cosmos collection and TERO fabric acoustical wallcovering from the Architextile collection.



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Photo © Aleksandra Gaca.

FLORO fabric and ONDO fabric from the Architextile collection.



source: Aleksandra Gaca

Monday
Mar012010

Genuine Fish Leather Panels by Atlantic Leather

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Ideally located in Sauðárkrókur, a small community on Iceland's north coast, Atlantic Leather trims and sews fish skins together to create large-scale leather panels for interiors. Best described as elegant and refined, salmon leather is thin and pliable with scales that follow a delicate, repeated pattern; with the most noticeable feature being the narrow band that runs along the center of the hides. Salmon leather panels are offered in parallel, triangle and natural fish patterns and in some amazing colors, textures and surface treatments.



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Photo © Atlantic Leather.

Salmon Leather in Parallel and Natural Fish Patterns.



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Photo © Atlantic Leather.

Salmon Leather in Brown, Base and Brown with an Antique Metal Finish.



Monday
Feb012010

Modern Laser Cut Textiles by Camilla Diedrich

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Finding inspiration in everything from a movie to architecture, Swedish textile designer Camilla Diedrich is challenging conventional ideas of what textiles should be. She is one of the first designers to structure textiles in terms of negative space by cutting holes into them using a laser. This exploration of negative space has led to the incredible transformation of a fabric's flat surfaces into richly-textured, three-dimensional forms. Her most iconic product to date is the BPL Lamp for Rotaliana which is wrapped in the Bubbly textile.



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Photo © Camilla Diedrich.

Curtain Brodery, Hole In Textile and Surface Textile panels.



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Photo © Camilla Diedrich.

Laser Cut, A Hole in Textile and Grey/White Bubbly Textile panels.