Art made with fabric and other media. Quilts, wall hangings, wearables, household decor, and more. Tutorials and examples.
If you’re interested in fabric art but don’t know where to start, here are a few basics. First, decide the kind of fabric art that you’d like to start with. You’ll have lots to choose from. Here are a few. Cloth dolls and figures If you’ve always loved dolls, stuffed animals, or art figures, you […]
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Before rushing out to buy supplies for your fabric art projects, consider a these important points. Many fabric artists (including me) prefer 100% cotton for most projects. The benefits are clear: Cottons are durable. They don’t “pill” or develop small little fiber balls on the surface.Cottons tear on a straight line. This saves tedious cutting.
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My faerie grandmother pindoll is still among my favorites. That’s partly because the doll’s face belongs to my paternal grandmother. I wanted to create a happy pindoll to remind me of what I liked best about that grandmother. She’d lived to age 80, but that wasn’t long enough. (click image to see full sized) This
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Note: This is the second part of a two-part article tracing the history of paper dolls. See The History of Paper Dolls, part one to read the first part. 20th century paper dolls – A brief history In the 20th century, other magazines followed this trend, including Ladies’ Home Journal (Sheila Young’s “Lettie Lane”), Pictorial
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Today’s paper dolls evolved from ceremonial and performance figures, and dressmakers’ fashion dolls. General history Paper was invented in China around 105 C.E. by Ts’ai-Lin, a courtier from Lei-yang. Although the word ‘paper’ is derived from ‘papyrus’, this early paper was not a papyrus product. With paper’s development in nearby China, it should be no
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