#Textiles student

[deadeyedfae]

Oh wait I have something to show off! My amazing sibling is a textiles student and draws her own designs to sell on redbubble including a bunch of pride shirts using my Dead Eyed Bunnies! 😊 If anyone wants to check thier profile it's linked! https://www.redbubble.com/people/cema-textiles/shop?artistUserName=cema-textiles&asc=u&collections=3455374&iaCode=all-departments&sortOrder=relevant

[aldercaps]

I HAVE WOVEN!

Can you tell I immediately overcorrected tension issues about five times in a row?

[corvus-costumes]

Being an archeology student and someone who works with textiles is so fun. We'll be talking about textiles found at a site in one of my classes and I just want to know everything about it. What material was it made with? How was it woven? What's the pattern? What was it meant for? I just want to go in and learn all the techniques that were used so I can incorporate it into my own craft.

[sophiedellamuro-portfolio]

deflected doubleweave samples with laser-cut acrylic perspex inserts 30 x 20 cm

2025

[tiuhtaviuhta]

I have a course where we do a whole bunch of company visits with interior textile and furniture companies. So twice a week I get to go to a new place, touch a whole bunch of fabrics and ask very detailed questions about them and often they will provide us with a little snack.

[scandalousadventures]

When I was younger I designed a gyaru Monster High OC based on a tengu! Now that I make dolls by hand I decided to give her life 🌸👺💖

[d1lfsdot0rg]

6 foot tall experiment with textiles

[notactualyalive]

I GOT A GRADE 9 IN MY TEXTILES GCSE IM SOOOOOO HAPPY AHHHHHHHHH

[annemarieyeretzian]

A note on my ART MOM logo:

This is a haphazard Photoshop recreation of the text on the back of a shirt one of my favorite former kids (I say ‘kid’; he’s a wholeass adult, but once one of my kids, always one of my kids), Arik – a talented textile artist and photographer/videographer as well as an excellent student and exceptional human being – gifted to me:

I asked Arik to speak to the meaning of the material(s) and process of the work, and in his own words:

“The initial reason why I started making clothes was very simple.

When I moved to America at 13, I had completely lost my routine I had in my small town, Colle. There I had this sense of freedom and connection with my surroundings... I was able to walk over to the neighboring town... and be with my group of 7 other friends that were basically part of my everyday life. We could run through wheat fields and vineyards since we were constantly surrounded by the backdrop of the Tuscan hills in the middle of the countryside. That was our habitat constantly, and we didn’t even understand back then how valuable that was. But we had this sense of collective gratefulness for one another and our small towns.

When I underwent the extreme culture shock of moving to suburban America, I felt completely alone and had lost that freedom.

Everything was so different, and maybe it was because I was growing up or maybe it was America, but it felt like everything there was motivated by school or something work-oriented. People didn’t just go outside in the woods the way we would just because it was beautiful and to have fun. That drastic change put my 13 year old self in a position where it felt hard to come back from school and either do homework or go to practice for a sport, never just to bond with others or spend genuine time that you enjoy. The motives were different; that freedom I had been exposed to my whole life disappeared. So I needed to replace my real friends back in Italy with an activity because it felt impossible to [recreate] that environment.

So I instinctually started making clothes and stealing my mother’s sewing machine and using it on the floor by sitting slouched over it in the ugliest and most uncomfortable position that I quickly found beauty and comfort in. That was it. That was my friend.

It was my first form of therapy that I believe was actually working for me. I have no idea therapy from what, maybe the culture shock, maybe that drastic change in scenery, but it felt good and I started developing a relationship with textures, threads, and my mother’s sewing machine. It was my friend. I could talk to it about anything.

When I started sewing denim, I started noticing how the needle would break so often. Basically every few minutes. I would buy like 10 packs of the strongest needles and go through a few packs in one sitting. It was a little dangerous and so hard to sew through at times but I loved it. It was so rugged and tough. I liked the thickness and texture a lot – especially the lighter wash denim was my favorite so I could also draw on it with markers – it became like my canvas.

As I started experimenting in different ways with the material, I understood that denim was a testament to humanity: You have to be tough if you want to last.

I started making connections with how so many workers wore denim and realized it was actually invented as workwear for its durability. But it also made me think of who in the first place, specifically in America, were the people gathering the raw material for denim to be created. And it was enslaved black people. It made me think about how many needles I would break trying to sew through the material and how many people must’ve felt the same while gathering cotton. Being broken for a purpose that ultimately did not benefit them.

I was also able to make the connection between how work and working is breaking our society beyond slavery. This desire for infinite consumption and working so much like machines that we don’t even give ourselves the time to walk on some hills or touch some grass, that’s the slavery that continues in all of our lives. Consumerism.

I think denim is a perfect metaphor for that. How we kill ourselves just to consume products that open more voids in our hearts. We are working towards someone else’s dream and someone else’s purpose and convincing ourselves through what’s being told and sold to us that we need things and money and to work harder to achieve things that don’t even actually fulfill us.

That was denim to me, an empty promise.

To me, denim looked beautiful and represented something I could fight against. My process of making clothes is so personal to me that to this day, I’ve struggled so much to turn it into a marketable and profitable business, because to me it’s not, even though everyone tells me to. I’d rather gift my art to my professor that represented a huge pivotal moment in my life.”

[leiphobia]

MEET THE ARTIST

Hii! My name is Lei. I'm an 18 year old Psychology University student and I live in the UK. Pronouns: She/her.

I have always been creative. At the start of 2020, I decided to create art that helps express my feelings and past traumatic experiences. My favourite media is fabric Textiles and I source my materials second hand. I am also interested in making clothes and upcycling.

My Jack Russell, Curtis also plays a big role in my creativity - not only does he sometimes model my creations but he's also my biggest fan and supports me 💖

I also like expressing myself through fashion - I am inspired by Harajuku and Maximalist styles.

My art Instagram: Verycheekylei

Pinterest: Leiphobia

Thank you so much for reading <3

[milkspoilt]

some slides from my portfolio for art school ☆ eeek !!

[isobel-totten-art]

hey, i haven't posted in a while here because i'm in the last year of my BFA and am working on a large project that will be shown (what's completed of it) at our graduating class's exhibition in April. here are a few photos of what i've done so far. i'm working on a website (free wix version i'm cheap) so keep an eye out for that 🖤 then there will be more of a description of what this is about ect. feel free to ask any questions in the meantime though.

[sophiedellamuro-portfolio]

chunky yarn and merino wool felt hand weave, with chainmail, o-rings and metal spikes

30 x 15 cm

2024

[melitarosaria]

Good afternoon honeys… just a little peek into my knitting set up in the workshop.

My work has not been going as planned as the techniques I am trying to do keep failing on me and it is incredibly frustrating, but I don’t want to give up on it since I am determined to be a specialist in this area of textiles soon enough. I spent so long on a single piece, my watch was telling me to take a break! I’d just had my lunch so I pressed on.

It’s annoying when you spend so many hours on something and barely have anything to show for it, but I am working hard regardless.

I’m listening to a Lofi Girl playlist on Spotify which is really keeping my nerves together bwahaha.

I also feel super weird today as I am wearing one of those really long smock skirts (never worn one before) and I don’t know if people are judging me or not. I think it looks cute.

Have a fabulous day, guys.

[samanthalanetextiles]

crochet contemporary jewellery pieces <3

two pieces from my 'playful jewellery' crochet collection from my 2nd year at uni. the individual pieces are adjustable and can be worn as either a necklace or bangles using magnets and velcro.

[witheringhouls]

Anime boy dazai bag i made for my textiles GCSE. It was supposed to be a soukoku bag but I ran out of time to hand stitch chuuya on. I think I'm going to sew him on when i get it back after it's marked.