If Lindsay Taylor weren’t so much younger than me, I’d want to grow up to be her. Her textile arts are astonishing – fanciful yet realistic, many layered, and supremely detailed. She says,
My creations start to grow with the hand-dyed base fabric, which is usually silk or merino wool. To this many techniques are added, often overlapping one on top of the other and this is where the magic happens. Techniques such as devoré, appliqué, felting, heat manipulation, freehand machine embroidery, batik, wire work and bead work. Highly textured layers are stitched, often to distort the work leaving it innovatively manipulated, which creates maximum impact to the end product.
On her site, you can see her textured embroidery techniques applied to handbags, jewelry, wall art, and sculpture – such as the sweet pea shoe shown here. Go look, and be inspired!
Many thanks to CraftGossip sewing editor Anne Weaver for this discovery.
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