Crafting

With much of the world on lockdown and with extra time on our hands, hobbies like crocheting, embroidering, and baking are experiencing a surge in popularity. And for good reason. Designer and master-crafter Orawee Choedamphai wants to encourage...

Michele Quan makes decorative ceramic objects for your home and garden. The pieces she makes become a canvas on which she adds paint, text, and color, with the images rooted in visual symbols found...

“I consider myself a painter and I paint with thread,” writes Stephanie K. Clark on her website. Using embroidery floss as paint, and employing a needle as a paintbrush, she creates textile art that's meant...

When it comes to your vocation, sometimes you just have to trust your guts. For Jane Foster, her guts were telling her to give illustrating a try. Based in South Devon, she was...

Wu Chi-Tsung is a talented Taiwanese artist who is turning traditional Xuan paper, also known as rice paper, into collages depicting stunning landscapes. His works, showing unsteady oceans, icy glaciers, and rock formations, are...

In these gloomy, dismal times, we could all use a bit of color. Incidentally, color is also what textile artist, Alexandra Kingswell, has to offer - and bucketfuls of it. “Color!” reads her cheerful...

Gesine Hackenberg is an Amsterdam-based artist who primarily makes jewelry. And the pieces she comes up with are far from what you would expect. Instead of using precious metals and shiny rocks, Hackenberg opted to...

It can be pretty difficult to stand out in the sea of embroidery artists on Instagram, but Jen Smith managed to find a way. She became a true sensation thanks to her fun and...

Alisa Lariushkina is a polymer clay artist based in Sweden. Her work is inspired by some famous painters like Van Gogh and Monet, but her art is unique and absolutely gorgeous. Lariushkina uses Japanese...

Cat Rabbit makes adorable handmade figures which lean on the tradition of embroidery, doll-making, patchwork, and textile design. The result, though undeniably cute, is more of a piece of art than a simple toy....